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PJSC Lukoil

Native name	ПAO «Лукойл»
Type	PJSC
Traded as	MCX: LKOH LSE: LKOD FWB: LUK OTC Pink: LUKOY
Industry	Oil and gas
Predecessor	Langepasneftegaz Urayneftegaz Kogalymneftegaz
Founded	25 November 1991; 26 years ago (1991-11-25)
Founder	Vagit Alekperov
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Number of locations	5,867 (2014)
Key people	Valery Grayfer (Chairman) Vagit Alekperov (CEO)
Products	Petroleum Natural gas Petrochemicals
Revenue	$102 billion[1] (2017)
Operating income	$8.68 billion[1] (2017)
Net income	$7.21 billion[1] (2017)
Total assets	$89.6 billion[1] (2017)
Total equity	$59.8 billion[1] (2017)
Number of employees	110,000 (2014)[2]
Subsidiaries	see subsidiaries
Website	www.lukoil.com

The PJSC Lukoil Oil Company (Russian: Лукойл, tr. Lukoil, IPA: [ˈluːkɔɪl] stylized as LUKOIL) is a Russian multinational energy corporation headquartered in Moscow, specializing in the business of extraction, production, transport, and sale of petroleum, natural gas, and petroleum products. It was formed in 1991 when three state-run, western Siberian companies named after the respective town in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug that each was based in, Langepasneftegaz, Urayneftegaz, and Kogalymneftegaz, merged. Its name is the combination of the acronym LUK (initials of the oil-producing cities of Langepas, Uray, Kogalym) and the English word "oil".^[3][4]

Lukoil is the second largest company in Russia after Gazprom, and the largest non-state enterprise in the nation in terms of revenue (₽4,744 billion).^[5][6] Internationally, it is one of the largest global producers of crude oil. In 2012, the company produced 89.856 million tons of oil (1.813 million barrels) per day.^[7] The company has operations and subsidiaries in more than 40 countries around the world.^[8][9]

History

Origins

Vagit Alekperov, CEO and founder of Lukoil

"Langepas, Uray, and Kogalym" oil (Lukoil) was established by the USSR Council of Ministers Decree № 18 on November 25, 1991 as a state-owned enterprise. In the new company, three oil production companies, Langepasneftegaz, Uraineftegaz, and Kogalymneftegaz, processing company Permnefteorgsintez, and the Volgograd and Novosibirsk refineries, were merged (the latter soon came under the control of the authorities of Bashkortostan).^[10]

The central figure in the company's founding was the Soviet deputy minister of oil production Vagit Alekperov.^[10] He came to believe the only way Russians could compete against western companies was to copy their business model. That meant vertically integrating the three branches of the industry—exploration, refining, and distribution—that were strictly separate under the old Soviet system.^[8]

On April 5, 1993, Lukoil transformed itself from a state-owned enterprise to a private open joint-stock company based on Presidential Decree № 1403 of November 17, 1992. The Decree also applied to other state-owned oil companies as well.

1990s

In 1994, Lukoil became the first company to begin offering shares of stock on the new Russian Trading System.^[10]

In 1995, Lukoil controlled the stakes of nine oil-producing, marketing and service enterprises in Western Siberia, the Urals, and Volgograd Oblast in order to abide by Government Decree № 861 of September 1, 1995.^[11] In the same year, a 5% stake of Lukoil was sold by the state with a minimum excess of the starting price in an auction.^[12] In November 1995, Lukoil filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to issue American depositary receipts on Western stock markets. This allowed United States investors for the first time, to be able to buy shares in a Russian company.^[13]

In 1996, Lukoil started contributing to the Shah Deniz natural gas project, and started to build its own tanker fleet as well.

In 1997, Lukoil signed a contract with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil for the development and production of the second stage of the West Qurna-2 oil field. After Saddam Hussein's regime was overthrown, the project was suspended and later terminated.^[14]

In 1999, Lukoil acquired numerous enterprises such as the Odessa Oil Refinery in Ukraine, the Burgas Oil Refinery in Bulgaria, and KomiTEK.^[11]

2000s

A Lukoil station in Vails Gate, New York, USA

In 2000, Lukoil acquired American oil company Getty Oil, resulting in the control of a network of gas stations in the United States as well as the first time Lukoil enters the American oil market.^[11]

On September 2004, ConocoPhillips purchased a 7.6% stake in Lukoil for about $2 billion. According to some commentators, the sale of this deal was planned before in a personal meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and ConocoPhillips' president and CEO, James Mulva. After the auction, Lukoil and ConocoPhillips announced the creation of a strategic alliance. Later, the American company increased its stake to 20% in Lukoil and sold to the Russian company part of its network of gas stations in the United States and Western Europe. The two oil companies also agreed to jointly develop an oil and gas field in the northern Timan-Pechora area of Russia (Komi Republic) and intended to secure the rights to develop the West Qurna Field in Iraq, one of the country's largest.^[15][16]

Uzbekistan's deputy prime minister Ergash Shaismatov announced on 30 August 2006 that the Uzbek government and an international consortium consisting of state-run Uzbekneftegaz, Lukoil Overseas, Petronas, Korea National Oil Corporation, and China National Petroleum Corporation signed a production sharing agreement to explore and develop oil and gas fields in the Aral Sea, stating "The Aral Sea is largely unknown, but it holds a lot of promise in terms of finding oil and gas. There is risk of course but we believe in the success of this unique project".^[17] In December 2006, Lukoil announced the acquisition of 376 filling stations in six European countries: Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, form ConocoPhillips.^[18]

In 2007, Lukoil established a joint-venture with Russian energy corporation Gazprom and in 2008, established a joint-venture as well with Italian oil company ERG S.p.A..^[11] In 2009, Lukoil and Norwegian oil company Statoil won a tender offer for the development of the West Qurna Field in Iraq. However, in early 2012, Statoil withdrew from the project, resulting in Lukoil consolidating 75% of development of the oil field.^[11][14]

2010s

From 2010 to February 2011, ConocoPhillips sold its whole 20% stake in Lukoil due to its difficult financial situation.^[19][20]

In September 2012, Lukoil created a shared service centre in the Czech Republic to provide accounting services to its subsidiaries in Belgium, Poland, and Bulgaria.^[21] In December 2012, Lukoil bought the Imilor field for ₽50.8 billion in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug to explore and develop the hydrocarbon deposits located there.^[22]

In February 2013, Lukoil sold the Odessa Oil Refinery to the Ukrainian "East European Fuel and Energy Company" (VETEK). For Lukoil, the oil refinery was unprofitable when production was stopped as early as October 2010 and the refinery finally closed in the summer of 2013.^[23] In April 2013, Lukoil agreed to buy Hess Corporation's Russian unit for $2.05 billion.^[24]

In 2014, the company faced a sharp decline in retail sales in Ukraine by 42%, caused by Russian intervention in Ukraine. As a result, the management of Lukoil has agreed to sell a 100% its subsidiary Lukoil Ukraine to the Austrian company AMIC Energy Management, which was announced at the end of July 2014.^[25][26]

In 2014, Lukoil sold its service stations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.^[27]

In 2015, it sold its service stations in Estonia and Ukraine, and in 2016, it sold its service stations in Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Cyprus.^[28][29][30]

Operations

Oil and gas production

Hydrocarbon reserves

The company's proved hydrocarbon reserves as of January 1, 2011 amounted to 17.255 billion barrels of oil equivalent, including 13.319 billion barrels of petroleum and 0.67 trillion cubic meters of natural gas. In terms of proved oil reserves, Lukoil, according to its own information, was the sixth-largest private oil company in the world at the time.^[31][32]

In addition, probable hydrocarbon reserves as of January 1, 2011 were 8.46 billion barrels of oil equivalent (including oil 6.47 billion barrels of petroleum and 0.34 trillion cubic meters of natural gas). Possible reserves were 3.17 billion barrels of oil equivalent (including 2.78 billion barrels of petroleum and 65.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas).^[31]

More than half of Lukoil's oil reserves are concentrated in Western Siberia. Its main production operator is Lukoil-Western Siberia located in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. About half of the natural gas reserves are located in the deposits located on the Gydan Peninsula in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Major oil fields

The operating fund of oil wells of Lukoil on October 1, 2005 was 26 626 wells, the idle fund - 4532 or 17% of the operating one. As compared to the beginning of 2005, the operating fund increased by 124 wells, and the non-operating fund decreased by 209 wells. The operating fund of injection wells was 8079 as of October 1, 2005 (133 wells more than at the end of 2004), the operating fund - 6238 wells (263 wells more than at the end of 2004).

Domestic projects

On July 1, 2005, Lukoil and ConocoPhillips created a joint-venture "Naryanmarneftegaz" to develop oil and gas deposits in the Timan-Pechora Basin in the north of the European Russia. Lukoil's share in the joint venture is 70%, while ConocoPhillips' share is 30%.

On December 2011, Lukoil established a joint venture with Bashneft to develop the Trebs and Titov oil fields. Total recoverable reserves and oil resources from these fields are 89.73 million tons in C1 category, 50.33 million tons in C2 category and 59.29 million tons in category C3.^[33][34][35]

Foreign projects

The operator of Lukoil's foreign projects in the exploration and production sector is its subsidiary, Lukoil Overseas.

Lukoil is involved in the implementation of 16 projects for the exploration and development of structures and deposits in the following countries:

• 
  Azerbaijan (D-222 (Yalama), Shah-Deniz)


• 
  Kazakhstan (Tengiz, Karachaganak, Kumkol, Karakuduk, Northern Buzachi, Alibekmola, Kozhasai, Arman, Zhambai South, Atash, Tyub-Karagan);


• 
  Uzbekistan (Kandym-Khauzak-Shady-Kungrad, Aral, Kungrad, South-West Gissar)


• 
  Egypt (Meleiha, West Esh-El-Mallah, West Geisum, Northeast Geisum)


• 
  Iraq (West Qurna-2)


• 
  Iran (Anaran);


• 
  Colombia (the Condor project in conjunction with the Colombian state company Ecopetrol)


• 
  Ivory Coast (production sharing agreement on the offshore block CI-205 in the Gulf of Guinea)


• 
  Venezuela (Junin Block 3)


• Saudi Arabia


• 
  Ghana (Cape Three Points Deepwater)


• Romania

The extraction of hydrocarbons from all the above projects is carried out only in Kazakhstan (5.5 million tons of oil and 1.9 billion cubic meters in 2006) and Egypt (0.2 million tons).

Oil and gas processing

Lukoil refinery in Perm

Lukoil owns seven oil-processing companies in Eastern Europe with total capacity of 82.1 million tons per year. In Russia it owns large refineries in Volgograd, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod, and Ukhta refineries and mini-refineries in Uray and Kogalym. It also owns refineries in Bulgaria, Romania, and Italy, and has a 45%-stake in an oil refining complex in the Netherlands.^[36]

Country	Name	Location	Launched	Acquired	Capacity, mln tpa
	Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez	Kstovo	1958	2000	15.0
	Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez	Perm	1958	1991	12.0
	Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka	Volgograd	1957	1991	9.9
	Lukoil-Ukhtaneftepererabotka	Ukhta	1934	2000	3.7
	Lukoil-Odessky Neftepererabatyvayuschiy zavod	Odessa	1937	1999	3.6
	Lukoil Neftochim Burgas	Burgas	1964	1999	7.5
	Petrotel Lukoil Refinery	Ploieşti	1904	1998	2.4
	ISAB	Priolo Gargallo	1975	2008*	16.0
	TRN	Vlissingen	1973	2009*	7.9*

* – 49% and 45% shares respectively

The company also owns Korobkovsky, Usinsky, Perm, and Lokosovsky gas processing plants as well as several petrochemical plants in Budennovsk, Saratov and Kalush, Ukraine, all managed by Lukoil-Neftechim.

In 2007, the refinery processed 52,164 thousand tons of oil, including 42,548 thousand tons at Russian plants. In 2005, the gas refining plants of the company processed 2,261 million cubic meters of gas raw materials and 479,000 tons of a wide fraction of light hydrocarbons.

Speaking at a press conference in New York on October 18, 2006, the company's CEO Vagit Alekperov said Lukoil is refusing to build a new refinery in Russia. According to him, "at this stage it is inexpedient and economically inefficient." At the same time, Lukoil planned to build a large complex in Kalmykia for the processing of natural gas from the North Caspian fields worth over $ 3 billion. The work was supposed to start in the spring of 2008. Also in March 2007, Lukoil announcied it would expand the capacity in the Lukoil Neftochim Burgas refinery in Burgas, Bulgaria from 7.5 million tons to 10 million tons of oil per year.^[37][38]

Petrochemistry

The Lukoil Neftochim Burgas refinery in Burgas, Bulgaria.

The subsidiary company Lukoil-Neftekhim specializes in petrochemistry, and operates the Stavrolen (Budyonnovsk), Saratovorgsintez, and the Karpatneftekhim (Kalush, Ukraine) petrochemical plants. Petrochemical facilities are also part of the Neftochim Burgas Combine in Bulgaria. "Lukoil" is the largest producer of alkene and acrylonitrile in Eastern Europe. Together with Sibur, Lukoil-Neftekhim owns a controlling stake in the Polief plant.

In 2005, Lukoil-Neftekhim's petrochemical enterprises produced 1.8 million tons of commercial products, including 402,000 tons of polyethylene and 128,000 tons of acrylic acid nitrile. In addition, 372.5 thousand tons of petrochemical products were produced at the Bulgarian oil refinery Lukoil Neftochim Burgas.

One of the most important petrochemical projects of Lukoil is the construction of the Caspian gas chemical complex. The complex would produce a wide range of petrochemical products, including products of basic organic synthesis, polyethylene, and polypropylene.

Transportation

Transportation of oil produced by Lukoil in Russia is carried out for the most part by the pipelines of Transneft, as well as by rail and water transport. Oil produced at the company's fields in Kazakhstan is transported through pipelines such as the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.

Lukoil owns a number of oil and oil products terminals used for the export of oil and oil products:

• The terminal in Vysotsk port off of the Gulf of Finland with a capacity of 10.7 million tons of oil and oil products per year since 2006.


• The terminal near Varandey off of the Barents Sea with a capacity of 12.5 million tons of oil a year is used for shipment of oil produced in the Timan-Pechora Basin.^[39]


• The terminal in the port of Svetly, Kaliningrad Oblast, off of the Baltic Sea with a capacity of 6 million tons of oil and oil products.


• The terminal "Astrakhan" in the village of Ilyinka in the Astrakhan Oblast with a capacity of 2 million tons of oil and oil products.

Sales

A Lukoil gas station in Macedonia

Lukoil sells petrol in 59 regions of Russia and in 17 other countries, both CIS and Western: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium (through its subsidiary "Jet" until late 2008, and progressively directly under the Lukoil brand), Bulgaria, Croatia (operated by Lukoil Croatia, but under the brand name "Europa-Mil"), Finland (Teboil), Georgia, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Turkey and the United States. As of January 2014^[update], it had 166 tank farms and 5,867 filling stations.^[40]

Retail sale of oil products is carried out for the most part under the trademark Lukoil. In the US, part of the company's filling stations operate under the trademarks Getty and Mobil.

Power generation

Lukoil has the aggregate power generation capacity of 5,800 MW, of which 73% is for commercial use. Lukoil generates about 99% of electrical power of the Astrakhan Oblast and 62% of the Krasnodar Krai. Its main power generation subsidiaries are Lukoil-Volgogradenergo, Lukoil-Rostovenergo, Luikoil-Kubanenergo, Lukoil-Astrakhanenergo, and Lukoil-Stavropolenergo.^[41]

Lukoil operates two solar power plants at its own refineries in Romania and Bulgaria with respective capacity of 9 MW and 1.3 MW.^[41] A 10-MW solar plant is under construction at the Volgograd Refinery.^[42] It also owns a 84-MW wind farm in Topolog, Romania.^[43]

Mikhail Aleshin driving Lukoil sponsored car in Formula Renault 3.5 Series

Sponsorship

Lukoil has been titular sponsor of FC Spartak Moscow since 2000.^[44] The company's vice president, Leonid Fedun, is also the owner of the club since 2003. Since 2001, the company has been sponsoring the Children's Football League. In addition, the company sponsors a number of regional Russian teams in various sports.

In particular, the company sponsors the Volgograd water polo club "Lukoil-Spartak". Lukoil also sponsors the Russian Olympic Committee and is one of the founders of the Russian Olympians Support Fund. In February 2014, Lukoil signed an agreement with the government of Arkhangelsk Oblast about supporting Vodnik.^[45] Vodnik was the dominant force of Russian bandy for a decade, starting in the mid-1990s.

Lukoil has been involved in motorsports for more than ten years. The Lukoil Racing team is a leading Russian motorsport organization and has achieved notable successes both in Russia and in Europe, winning more than 60 championships over the years.. Lukoil's operations include management, driver training and support, engineering expertise and a quality technical environment.

In addition to Russia, Lukoil sponsors various sports teams in all countries where it operates. The company sponsors the football club FC Rapid București of Romania, the football club FC Zimbru Chișinău of Moldova, the National Federation of Motorsport of Ukraine, and the men's basketball club Lukoil-Akademik, the women's Lukoil-Neftohimik, the volleyball, acrobatic clubs and club of the same name rowing, as well as the club of martial arts "Lukoil-Ikken" of Bulgaria.

Corporate affairs

Shareholders

In July 2010, the top managers of the company owned the largest stake (more than 30%) of the company's shares: CEO Vagit Alekperov owning 20.6% and vice-president Leonid Fedun owning 9.8%. The American oil company ConocoPhillips owned 19.21% but due to financial difficulties, completely withdrew from the shareholders of Lukoil, selling its shares, and in part to Lukoil itself by February 2011. The remaining shares were freely traded on the London Stock Exchange, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the Russian Trading System, and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange. Market capitalization of the company was $60.4 billion as of June 2018.

Management

Chief executive officer

• 1993–present: Vagit Alekperov
  

Board of Directors

List of directors that were elected on June 21, 2017:^[46]

• Valery Grayfer - Chairman of Board


• 
  Vagit Alekperov - CEO^[47]


• Victor Blazheev


• Igor Ivanov


• Ravil Maganov


• Richard H. Matzke


• Love Hoba


• Toby Gati


• Roger Munnings


• Ivan Pictet


• Leonid Fedun

Subsidiaries

A Lukoil gas station in Tula, Russia

The company "Lukoil" owns controlling stakes or otherwise controls the following main organizations:

Environmental record

According to Lukoil, their numbers in 2007 recorded a drop of 7.8% in the volume of pollutant effects and a drop of 3.8% in the area of contaminated lands compared to 2006. These numbers came after an appeal from EMERCON, the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Natural Disaster Recovery, which proposed that Lukoil participate in the development of monitoring, prevention, and emergency recovery systems.^[48]

In an effort to increase productivity, Lukoil organized a contract to begin an oil pumping block in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. It arranged an Environmental Impact Assessment of the drill site in order to organize a second exploration drill. This block, D-222, was the largest prospective structure in the north-east section of the Caspian Sea as of 2008.^[49] The key issue of the assessment was the amount of damage the block would be doing to fish stock in the area. Taking into account the depth of the operation of about 700 meters, the amount of harm was predicted to be minimal, with most of the fish harmed being plankton and benthos. A rescue and salvage ship was supposed to be placed into operation to mitigate the impact on the area. Lukoil was reported in 2008 to have developed contingency plans for oil spills, and implemented environmental monitoring.^[50]

At the same time, Lukoil faces criticism from various environmental organizations. In particular, the company's oil production on the Baltic Sea near Kaliningrad Oblast was criticized as it is 22 kilometers away from the Curonian Spit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.^[51]

According to a number of critics, Lukoil inherited the worst standards of the Soviet oil industry with respect to the environment, not taking enough responsibility to minimize pollution in its oil fields and refineries.^[52]

Lukoil has been ranked as among the 14th best of 92 oil, gas, and mining companies on indigenous rights and resource extraction in the Arctic.^[53]

Controversies

Incidents

On one of the storage ponds of JSC "Lukoil-Volgograd-neftepererabotka" during the period from July 25 to August 8, 1996, the oil sludge was ignited due to the unacceptable conduct of welding operations. The surface layer of oil products was formed during the last two decades, and a similar ignition in this area was already noted in 1972. As a result of the 1996 fire, about 50,000 tons of oil products were burned, since even the soil was saturated with volatile fractions at this site. In the fire, the concentration of carbon monoxide exceeded the permissible standards by almost 28 times, nitrogen dioxide tripled, hydrogen sulfide and phenol more than 1.5 times. In the residential areas of the Krasnoarmeysky district of Volgograd, located 7 km from the fire, as well as in the nearby settlements - B. and M. Chapurnik, Dubov Gully, Chervlen, Tingut - the content of combustion products in the air also exceeded the maximum permissible concentration. In the liquidation of this major technogenic emergency situation with severe environmental consequences, the divisions of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia took part.^[54][55]

In the fall of 2003, the Russian Emergencies Ministry revealed the oil spill as a result of the depressurization of the interfacial oil pipeline belonging to the TPP Lukoil-Usinskneftegaz on the territory of the Komi Republic near the city of Usinsk. The area of oil pollution in one case was about 1.8 thousand m², in the second - 377 m².^[56]

On January 25, 2011 at about 10:00 (local time), as a result of oil leakage in the engine room LGPZ (CCI "Langepasneftegaz"), there was a fire. Fire extinguished more than 50 fighter. The plant suspended its work.

On April 20, 2012 at the Trebs field, developed jointly by Lukoil and Bashneft, there was an accident that caused significant damage to the natural environment: over a day, continued flowing of oil from the re-opened well, which led to large-scale contamination of the territory. According to the press service of the administration of the Nenets Autonomous District, the contamination area exceeded 5 thousand square meters, the volume of spilled oil, according to Bashneft, was 600 tonnes (in independent sources numbers were up to 2.2 thousand tonnes).^[57][58][59]

Anti-trust law violations

In November 2009, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) imposed a record fine of ₽6.54 billion on the company for violating anti-trust legislation. The fine was imposed for the abuse of the company's dominant position in the wholesale market of petroleum products in the first half of 2009, expressed in "the seizure of goods from circulation" and the creation of "discriminatory conditions for the sale of petroleum products to individual counterparties." As FAS has calculated, these actions led to an increase in prices in the wholesale markets of motor gasoline, diesel fuel, and aviation kerosene in the first half of 2009.^[60]

Criticism

• The Association of Small and Medium-Sized Oil Production Enterprises, also known as Assoneft, criticized Lukoil and the authorities of the Komi Republic for providing tax breaks to the oil companies of the region, which are obliged to extract at least 7 million tons of oil per year and (or) recycle at least 3 million tons. Only two enterprises–Lukoil-Komi and Lukoil-Ukhtaneftepererabotka–correspond to these conditions in the region. In March 2007, the Federal Antimonopoly Service initiated a case against the State Council of the Komi on the grounds of violation of Part 1 of Art. 15 of the Law "On Protection of Competition" with regard to restricting competition in the oil production and refining markets.^[61][62]


• On October 2005, then-prime minister of Lithuania, Algirdas Brazauskas, was in the center of the scandal involving Lukoil . The opposition of the Lithuanian parliament, Homeland Union, began collecting signatures for the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate the entrepreneurial activity of Brazauskas' wife, Christina Butrimene-Brazauskiene, in particular with the acquisition of a 38% stake in the elite Vilnius Crowne Plaza hotel from the wife of the head of the Lukoil-Baltija company. The charges were related to Lukoil's contention at that time for a stake in one of the largest enterprises in Lithuania, the oil refinery ORLEN Lietuva. Brazauskas rejected allegations of corruption, but admitted his wife owns 51% of the hotel shares, and another 48% belong to his son. On November 22, at the insistence of the country's president Valdas Adamkus, Algirdas Brazauskas spoke on television, saying he was not involved in the privatization of the hotel, and that all charges should be considered by law enforcement bodies, not by the parliamentary commission.^[63]


• On February 25, 2011, Lukoil's vice president Anatoliy Barkov crashed his Mercedes S500 into a Citroën car with doctor Olga Alexandrina and famous obstetrician Vera M. Sidelnikov inside, which both women died. The General Administration for Traffic Safety blamed the driver of the Citroën but it was suggested the administration was covering up that the real culprit of the accident was the driver of the Mercedes, who, according to eyewitnesses, was driving around the stop and went to the oncoming lane. There is also some speculation that the driver of the Mercedes was the vice-president of Lukoil himself. A few days after the accident, the Head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of Moscow issued a decision on incomplete official correspondence to the commander of the DPS battalion, who executed the accident on Leninsky Avenue because he prematurely called the driver of Citroen, Olga Alexandrin, the culprit of the accident. The incident caused a public reaction, in particular, the boycott of gas stations of this company was organized. Andrei Bacharovre announced the advertisement of Lukoil based on this accident, and Noize MC wrote the song "Mercedes S666 (Chariot Road)".^{[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]}


• On July 2011, Lukoil had conflict with Bulgarian authorities. According to the authorities of the Balkan state, the company's Bourgas refinery did not have timely installed meters for the manufactured fuel (used to determine the amount of excises paid), which, according to officials, Lukoil allegedly underpaid about €250 million to the country's budget. As a result, the company lost its license and was stopped, but in early August 2011 the plant was re-launched.^[73]


• On September 14, 2012 more than fifty Lukoil gas station owners in New Jersey and Pennsylvania temporarily raised their prices to over $8 a gallon to protest Lukoil's wholesale gas pricing. The owners are typically charged a wholesale price that is 5 to 10 cents a gallon more than their competitors and some are assessed an additional 25 to 30 cents per gallon based on their location.^[74] According to the station owners this makes it difficult to be competitive with stations that sell more established brands for lower prices.


• On January 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine announced an investigation into whether Lukoil had financed separatists in Donbass.^[75]


• On March 2016, there were accusations by the press of the company not acquiring rights to part of the Massandra vineyards in Crimea.^[76][77]


• In March 2018, the data firm Cambridge Analytica, tied to the 2016 Trump Campaign, was accused of discussing "political targeting" of American voters with representatives of Lukoil.^[78]

See also

• List of companies of Russia


• Petroleum industry of Russia


• Companies of comparable role
  
  • Gazprom
  
  
  • Exxon-Mobil
  
  
  • Royal Dutch Shell
  
  

References

External links

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