The winner of the auction on Western- Povkhovskoe deposit of hydrocarbons in the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous region became the Open Company "LUKOIL-Western Siberia" (the subsidiary of the Open Society "OC "LUKOIL"). Final payment made 240mln rbl. at the starting price of the lot in 200mln rbl..

The Open Society "LUKOIL" is the second on volumes on oil recovery company in the Russian Federation. It's proved stocks for January, 1st, 2007 made 20.36mlrd barrels in the oil equivalent, including 15.93mlrd barrels of oil and 26.6trln cube m. of gas. In 2006 oil recovery increased up 5.6% to 95.2mln ton, the volume of processing - up 3% to 48.95mln ton. The extraction of commodity gas made 13.612mlrd cube m. that is 141.6% more, than in 2005.

The net profit under US GAAP in 2006 grew up 16.2% to $7.484mlrd, the proceeds - up 21.2% to $68.109mlrd, EBITDA - up 18.2% to $12.299mlrd.

The authorized capital of LUKOIL equals 21264081.375 rbl. There are 850563255 ordinary shares by face value of 0.025 rbl are there in the circulation. The largest share holding of the Company is supervised by its management. In particular, the president of "LUKOIL" Vagit Alekperov supervises 16.899% of shares of the oil company for April. The vice-president of LUKOIL Leonid Fedun directly and indirectly was the holder of 8.3% of shares of the company. American ConocoPhillips consolidated the second-largest share holding - 20% for the end of 2006.

"AK&M", 19/03/2008