LUKOIL is one of the
world’s leading vertically integrated oil & gas companies. Main activities
of the Company are exploration and production of oil & gas, production of
petroleum products and petrochemicals, and marketing of these outputs. Most of
the Company's exploration and production activity is located in
Russia, and its main resource
base is in Western Siberia. LUKOIL owns modern
refineries, gas processing and petrochemical plants located in
Russia, Eastern Europe and near-abroad countries. Most of the
Company's production is sold on the international market. LUKOIL petroleum
products are sold in Russia,
Eastern and Western Europe, near-abroad countries and the USA.
LUKOIL is the second
largest private oil Company worldwide by proven hydrocarbon reserves. The
Company has around 1.3% of global oil reserves and 2.3% of global oil
production. LUKOIL dominates the Russian energy sector, with almost 19% of total
Russian oil production refining.
LUKOIL proven reserves
at the beginning of 2007 were 15,715 mln barrels of crude oil and 27,921 bcf of
natural gas, totaling 20,369 mln boe.
LUKOIL has an
outstanding portfolio of production assets. The main production region for
LUKOIL Group is Western Siberia. LUKOIL is
carrying out international exploration and production projects in
Kazakhstan,
Egypt, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Saudi
Arabia, Colombia, Venezuela, Cote
d’Ivoire, Ghana and Iraq.
With putting into
operation the Nakhodkinskoye gas field in 2005 the Company started its gas
program which targets at a rapid growth of gas production. The key regions for
development of LUKOIL gas production are the Bolshekhetskaya Depression, the
Northern Caspian and Tsentralno-Astrakhanskoye field in Russia as well as the
Kandym – Khauzak – Shady project in Uzbekistan (put into production in 2007) and
the Shakh Deniz project in Azerbaijan.
LUKOIL owns
significant oil refining capacity both in Russia
and abroad. In Russia the
company owns four large refineries at Perm,
Volgograd, Ukhta and Nizhny
Novgorod. Total capacity of LUKOIL facilities in Russia is 44.5
mln tons of oil per year. LUKOIL also has refineries in Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Romania, with
total capacity of 14.0 mln tons per year. In 2007 LUKOIL refined 52.16 mln tons
of oil at its own refineries, including 42.55 mln tons at its Russian
refineries.
At the beginning of
2008 the Company's marketing network encompassed 24 countries, including Russia,
the near-abroad and European countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova,
Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia,
Montenegro, Romania, Macedonia, Cyprus, Turkey, Belgium, Luxemburg, Czech
Republic, and Slovakia) as well as the USA and includes 197 tank farm facilities
with total capacity of 3.11 million cubic meters as well as 6,090 filling
stations, including
franchises.