PRESS SERVICE STATEMENT

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The OAO LUKOIL Press Service announces that the death toll in the plane crash of the UTAIR flight Tyumen—Surgut on April 2, 2012 includes two members of OOO LUKOIL-Engineering, a subsidiary of the KogalymNIPIneft Research Institute in Tyumen. They are:

Aleksandr Ivanovich Lebedev (1951), Deputy Head of the Geology Center, and Yuri Nikolayevich Fedorov (1949), a Senior Specialist of the Center.

The management and all employees of OAO LUKOIL extend their condolences to the relatives and friends of the deceased. The bereaved families will be given all material assistance required.