Nikolay Vinnichenko, Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District, visited production and social facilities of OOO LUKOIL-Western Siberia (a wholly-owned subsidiary of OAO LUKOIL) in the cities of Kogalym and Langepas (Khanti-Mansi Autonomous District-Yugra) today.

Nikolay Vinnichenko inspected a 72 MW gas-turbine power station commissioned in 2008 at Vat-Yeganskoye field. It is LUKOIL’s first self-generating facility of the two located in Western Siberia. The Plenipotentiary also visited new residential buildings located in left-bank Kogalym and a number of other social facilities of the city.

In Langepas, the Plenipotentiary participated in an opening ceremony of a football playground and a maternity ward of the city hospital equipped with modern medical devices. These facilities were constructed within the framework of the cooperation agreement between LUKOIL and the government of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District – Yugra.

Nikolay Vinnichenko also participated in the signing ceremony of a supplement agreement between the Company and the government of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District – Yugra, providing for a threefold increase in the financing of joint activities aimed at social and economic development of the district. Thus, in 2009 LUKOIL intends to allocate about RUR 1 billion for these purposes.

The agreement was signed by Vagit Alekperov, President of OAO LUKOIL, and Alexander Filipenko, Governor and Head of the Government of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District – Yugra.