LUKoil chairman Valery Graifer told Interfax on Tuesday that the company will buy all its shares held by ConocoPhillips, after concern over a remaining packet hit the stock a day earlier.
LUKoil had said Sunday that it would exercise an option to buy $2.38 billion in depositary receipts from Conoco, leaving the U.S. oil major with a 6.15 percent stake in the Russian firm. The value of the stake exceeds $3 billion, at current share prices. Graifer also said LUKoil will challenge the rejection of its application to bid for the Trebs and Titov oil fields, according to RIA-Novosti.
