Lukoil President Meets With Kazakhstan Leaders
LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov visited Astana to attend the 28th Plenary Session of the Foreign Investors’ Council under the President of Kazakhstan. As part of his visit, Mr. Alekperov met with Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Masimov, executives from Kazakshtan’s Ministry of Energy and KazMunayGas, the national oil company of Kazakhstan. …
Lukoil: LUKOIL-Permnefteorgsintez Starts Second Production Unit for APG
Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, Mikhail Babich, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Volga Federal District, and Viktor Basargin, Governor of Perm Territory, took part in the ceremonial commissioning of the second production line of a unit, NTKR-2, for low-temperature condensation and fractionation of associated petroleum gas (APG), at OAO LUKOIL-Permnefteorgsintez, …
LUKOIL Starts Production Tests At Facilities For Kandym Early Gas Project In Uzbekistan
LUKOIL has begun production tests of two Gas Treatment Plants (GTPs) at the Northern Shady Site and the Kuvachi-Alat Field in Uzbekistan’s Bukhara Region as part of the Kandym Early Gas Project, which is being implemented together with National Holding Company Uzbekneftegaz. The GTPs have a combined annual capacity of …
RPI: Offshore Field Development in Russia: Are the Sanctions an Opportunity for Russian Companies to Fill the Void?
Vadim Kravets In mid-February 2015, the third round of EU sanctions targted a number of Russian officials and nine new companies were introduced. Previously, in late summer and early autumn 2014, the U.S., EU, Japan and Canada introduced, in two rounds, sanctions againstw certain individuals and sectors of Russia’s economy …
Russian Offshore to Open Up?
Ask most people about Russian oil and gas production, and they’re likely to bring up the two giants: Rosneft and Gazprom. But private companies are possibly in a position to see their roles change in the country’s oil landscape, as Rosemary Griffin describes in this week’s Oilgram News column, Regulation …
Eurasia Drilling Company: 2014 Results – Drilled Metres Down 9.5%, Margin Up to 14.1%
Eurasia Drilling Company Limited,the leading onshore & offshore drilling service provider in the CIS, today announced its consolidated financial results for the year ended December 31, 2014, prepared in accordance with US GAAP. The audited Consolidated Financial Statements for the twelve months ended December 31, 2014, and Management’s Report on …
Bashneft-Polyus and Vostok NAO sign protocols to Cooperation Agreements with the Administration of the Nenets Autonomous District
Igor Koshin, Governor of the Nenets Autonomous District, and Vladimir Nesterenko, General Director of LLC Bashneft-Polyus (a joint venture of JSOC Bashneft and OJSC Lukoil responsible for the development of the R. Trebs and A. Titov fields), have signed the Protocol to the Cooperation Agreement for 2015. In addition, today …
LUKOIL: Alexander Leyfrid Appointed General Director of LUKOIL-Komi
LUKOIL would like to announce that Alexander Leyfrid, the former head of OOO LUKOIL-PERM, has been appointed General Director of OOO LUKOIL-Komi and also Vice-president of OAO LUKOIL (combined duties). Pyotr Oboronkov, the former head of OOO LUKOIL-Komi, will work in the corporate headquarters of the company. Oleg Tretyakov, formerly …
LUKOIL: Signs Offshore Etinde Block in Cameroon
LUKOIL closed a transaction to enter a project to develop the Etinde block offshore the Republic of Cameroon in the Gulf of Guinea (West Africa). Earlier, the Company met all the preliminary conditions of the acquisition agreement signed in June 2014. This included obtaining approval from the Cameroon Ministry of …
Alexey Miller and Vagit Alekperov Address Vital Cooperation Issues
The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Vagit Alekperov, President of LUKOIL. The parties discussed the issues of cooperation while arranging the processing of associated petroleum gas (APG) from the northern group of LUKOIL-Komi fields at the Sosnogorsk gas processing plant (GPP) of Gazprom. It was noted that the work …