Press Releases

LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd. (a wholly owned subsidiary of OAO LUKOIL) arranged bidding for 3D seismic exploration at the contract area of the Western Qurna-2 field in Iraq.

A meeting of OAO LUKOIL Board of Directors dedicated to summarizing the Company’s performance in the sphere of refining and marketing and approval of key development areas in this business segment for 2011-2012 took place in Istanbul today.

Under the corporate plan, LUKOIL held a command and staff training on oil-and-gas blowout response during the drilling and operation of wells at the fixed offshore ice-resistant platform (FOIRP) at Yuri Korchagin field in Astrakhan.

LUKOIL has concluded the trial of its corporate knowledge-management system and compiled the results.

LUKOIL and Vanco, together with the state-owned partners Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and PETROCHI, have developed a program of extensive exploration and appraisal drilling at two licensed areas on the continental slope of Western Africa’s Gulf of Guinea: the Cape Three Point Deep Water (CTPDW – the waters of the Republic of Ghana) and CI-401 (the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire).

A jubilee exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Isaak Ilyich Levitan, a distinguished landscape-painter, opened today with LUKOIL’s support at the State Tretyakov Gallery. The exposition comprises about 300 paintings, sketches, pastels, water-colors and drawings from 17 Russian museums and Moscow's private collections, as well as from two foreign collections. The gem of the exposition is the famous canvas “Golden Autumn”, restored with the Company’s financial support.

Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, and Anatoly Brovko, Head of the Administration of the Volgograd Region, signed a cooperation agreement today between the Company and the Region in Volgograd.

An exhibition titled “Masterpieces of the European Graphics from the Collection of V.N. and N.V. Basnin” opened in Moscow today at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition, organized with the support of LUKOIL, continues the series “Collections and Collectors” dedicated to the history of artwork collection in Russia. It is part of a range of large-scale projects by the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts dedicated to studies of private collections.