LUKOIL IMPROVES ITS RANK IN PLATTS ‘TOP 250 ENERGY COMPANIES’ LIST

Thursday, September 13, 2007

LUKOIL ranked 6th among European, Middle East and African companies and 11th among global companies in the American energy agency Platts 2007 ‘Top 250 Energy Companies’ List.

All companies were ranked by four main criteria, including asset value, revenues, profits and return on invested capital.

Valuation was performed based on Standard & Poor’s database which is, like Platts, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies.

In the 2006 ‘Top 250 Energy Companies’ rankings, LUKOIL held 6th and 15th places, in 2005 – the 9 th and 16 th places, respectively.