PRESS SERVICE STATEMENT

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

OAO LUKOIL Press Service is warning all interested parties of the unscrupulous activities of a certain OOO Vitrazh which is distributing commercial proposals on letterheads containing misleading information as to the company’s affiliation to OAO LUKOIL’s subsidiaries.

In addition to that, the said company’s website on the Internet (http://www.vitrazh-coll.ru) is illegally using LUKOIL’s trade marks, including http://www.lukoil.com/materials/images/luk.jpg and LUKOIL.

In this connection the Press Service feels obliged to announce that OOO Vitrazh has no relation to OAO LUKOIL whatsoever, and that the Company bears no responsibility for the information content published on the website of the said entity, or for its commercial activity.

The Press Service also reports that at present the Company is applying legal efforts to prevent OOO Vitrazh from distributing misleading information regarding its affiliation to LUKOIL Group.