​President of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov, jointly with Head of the Astrakhan Region Sergey Morozov, took part in the official groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of infrastructure facilities of Rakushechnoye field. ​

Minister of Petroleum of Iran Bijan Namdar Zangeneh and President of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov discussed potential involvement of the company in projects in Iran, provided that the economic situation and the legal environment are favorable, and some other issues, critical for the development of hydrocarbon production in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov took part in a meeting between the Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, and Mikhail Bogdanov, the Russian President's Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. The latter conveyed the RF President’s invitation to the Iraqi leader to pay an official visit to Moscow.