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LUKOIL Overseas (operator of LUKOIL’s international upstream projects) has had a number of new management appointments.

LUKOIL Overseas (the Operator of LUKOIL's overseas upstream projects) has informed Iraq’s Ministry of Oil that it has fulfilled its contractual obligations for first commercial production at West Qurna-2.

Today in Baghdad, LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov and authorized representatives of the South and North Oil Companies of Iraq in the presence of the Minister of Oil of Iraq H.E. Abdul Kareem Luaibi signed an addendum to the contract for development and production of oil in the West Qurna-2 field.

LUKOIL Overseas (operator of LUKOIL Group's overseas upstream projects) has started a 2D seismic survey at Block 10 in the south of Iraq.

LUKOIL has started commercial production at the West Qurna-2 oil field in Iraq today. The official ceremony was attended by Hussain al-Shahristani, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, Arkady Dvorkovich, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vagit Alekperov, President of OAO LUKOIL, members of the Iraqi Government, Basra province authorities and representatives of major contractors.

Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, met with the leaders of Iraq’s Fuel and Energy Complex -- Deputy Prime Minister for Oil Hussain al-Shahristani and Minister of Oil Abdul Karim Luaibi, in Baghdad today.

The first class of students graduated from the training center of LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd., a LUKOIL-owned company operating under the West Qurna-2 project in Basra Province (Iraq).

Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, and the authorized representatives of the Iraqi state-owned companies, North Oil Company and South Oil Company, signed a Supplement Agreement to the Development and Production Service Contract related to Iraq’s West Qurna-2 field, in Baghdad today.