LUKOIL bought out a 46 per cent stake in the LUKARCO B.V.
joint venture from British Petroleum today.
Thus,
LUKOIL has become owner of a 100 per cent stake in LUKARCO
B.V.
The
transaction amount came to USD 1.6 billion, which will be paid in cash in three
installments over the next two years.
LUKARCO
B.V. owns a 5 per cent share in TengizChevroil
(TCO), a joint
venture which develops the Tengiz and Korolevskoye fields in
Kazakhstan. As a
result of the transaction LUKOIL proved reserves increased by 102.0 million
barrels of oil and 129.8 billion cubic feet of gas, the oil production increment
amounted to more than 13,000 barrels a day.
LUKARCO
B.V. also owns a 12.5 per cent share in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC)
carrying oil from Kazakhstani and Russian oil fields to the Novorossisk
terminal. At present, CPC has the capacity to carry up to 28.2 million tons a
year and ultimately the throughput capacity is expected to reach 67 million tons
a year.
‘Consolidation
of LUKARCO B.V. assets will strengthen LUKOIL positions, particularly in
Kazakhstan, and generally in
the Caspian Sea region’, Vagit Alekperov, OAO
LUKOIL President, said.