LUKOIL Preliminary Operating Data 2005

LUKOIL Group total hydrocarbon production for 2005 reached 1.93 mln boe per day, up 5.5% y-o-y, the company said in its press release.

Crude oil output of LUKOIL Group totaled 1.81 mln bpd (up 4.8% y-o-y) or 90.06 mln
tons (up 4.5% y-o-y).

Average flow rate per oil well reached 11.07 tons per day, up 3.5% y-o-y.
Petroleum and natural gas output of LUKOIL Group was 7.57 bcm, which is 16.9%
more compared with 2004. Daily petroleum and natural gas output grew by 17.3% y-o-y.

Natural gas output was 2.63 bcm, up 43.8% y-o-y.

LUKOIL refined 47.28 mln tons of crude at its own refineries, which is 8.4% y-o-y.
Throughputs at international refineries grew by 23.7% as Romanian refinery ?Petrotel-
LUKOIL? has been put into operation.