Press releases

The OAO LUKOIL Press Service announces that the judgment by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) handed down on September 24, 2009 in relation to OOO LUKOIL-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez and a regulation imposing a penalty in the amount of RUR 2,409,298,055.78 were officially ruled illegal and invalidated today by the Arbitration Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

Список кандидатур определен по предложениям акционеров - владельцев не менее, чем 2% голосующих акций. В Совет директоров выдвинуто 12 кандидатур, в том числе Президент ОАО «ЛУКОЙЛ» В.Ю.Алекперов; ранее занимавший должности Министра иностранных дел РФ И.С.Иванов и другие.

The OAO LUKOIL Press Service announces that the judgment and order by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) Division for the Perm Region handed down on September 9, 2009, which had originally found OOO LUKOIL-Permnefteprodukt guilty of violating antitrust legislation, was officially ruled illegal and invalidated by the Arbitration Court of the Perm Region on February 1, 2010.

LUKOIL’s gas stations have been rated the best in Russia by Reader’s Digest.

Бурение на Западной Курне-2 начнется в 2011 году, добыча - в конце 2012 года. Достижение целевого уровня добычи в объеме более 90 млн. тонн нефти в год запланировано на 2017 год. План разработки месторождения, в частности, предусматривает проведение дополнительной сейсмики, бурение более пятисот скважин.

At its session of 23 January 2010, the Executive Committee of Russia’s Cross-Country Ski Federation approved the Provisions on the Federation’s Sponsorship Board, now chaired by Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President.

LUKOIL has established a new research center which is named ООО LUKOIL-Engineering.

Today, OAO LUKOIL Board of Directors held a meeting in Moscow to summarize the Company’s preliminary performance results in 2009 and set priority tasks for 2010.