PRESIDENT OF LUKOIL VISITS KAZAKHSTAN
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin held a meeting with President of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov, who arrived in Nur-Sultan on a working visit. The parties discussed current operations and future prospects for LUKOIL projects in Kazakhstan.
Vagit Alekperov also met Kazakhstan Minister of Energy Nurlan Nogayev, Chairman of the Management Board of the Samruk-Kazyn Sovereign Wealth Fund Almasadam Satkaliyev, and Chief Executive Officer of KazMunayGas National Company Alik Aidarbayev. Vagit Alekperov spoke of the ongoing projects where LUKOIL is involved. He paid particular attention to the project of geological study of subsurface resources in the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea (Zhenis project), which LUKOIL conducts in a joint venture with KazMunayGas.
In 2019, LUKOIL opened a lubricants plant in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan. Marketing outlets of the facility spread all over Central Asia.