Press Releases

Today Vagit Alekperov, President of OAO LUKOIL, attended a ceremony devoted to commissioning of a gas-filling station at OOO LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhsknefteprodukt.

LUKOIL and Visa International completed the pilot stage of installing VISA card GPRS terminals at the Company’s filling stations.

Followed the results of deep exploration drilling on Tukhman structure, Contract area Block A in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia LUKSAR discovered hydrocarbon accumulations.

Today in Doha during the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Qatar, His Excellency, Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, the Chairman and Managing Director of Qatar Petroleum, and Mr. Vagit Alekperov, the President of LUKOIL, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding cooperation in the area of exploration, development and recovery of oil and gas fields.

Yesterday Igor Zaikin, Head of Department for Industrial Safety, Environment, Research and Technology of OAO LUKOIL, spoke at the conference titled ‘New Technologies to Solve Environmental Problems of the Fuel and Energy Industry’, which was held at Gubkin Russian State Oil and Gas University, Moscow.

LUKOIL Overseas (OAO LUKOIL 100% subsidiary) discovered prospective oil amounting to over 100 mln bbl in theMedina structure of the exploration Condor block (Colombia).

The Board of Directors of OAO “LUKOIL” held on February 3, 2007 specified the list of candidates for election of the Board of Directors and Audit Commission at the Annual General Shareholders Meeting.