OREANDA-NEWS. June 28, 2010. OAO LUKOIL held its Annual General Shareholders Meeting in Moscow to approve the 2009 Annual Report and financial statements based on the fiscal year results.

The shareholders approved dividend distribution based on the Company’s performance in 2009 in the amount of 52 rubles per ordinary share (50 rubles in 2008).

The size of remuneration and compensation of expenses to the members of the Board of Directors and the Audit Commission was also approved. ZAO KPMG was approved as LUKOIL’s independent auditor. The Annual General Shareholders Meeting also elected the Board of Directors and the Audit Commission, approved amendments to the Procedure for Preparing and Holding the General Shareholders Meeting of OAO LUKOIL and approved interested-party transactions.

The following Board of Directors of OAO LUKOIL was elected by the shareholders:

1.  

Vagit Yu. Alekperov

President of OAO LUKOIL

2.  

Igor V. Belikov

Director of the Russian Institute of Directors

3.  

Victor V. Blazheev

Rector of the Moscow State Academy of Law

4.  

Donald Evert Wallette (Jr.)

President of Russia/Caspian Region, ConocoPhillips

5.  

Valery I. Grayfer

Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO RITEK

6.  

German O. Gref

Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sberbank (Saving Bank of the Russian Federation)

7.  

Igor S. Ivanov

Professor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations

8.  

Ravil U. Maganov

First Executive Vice President of OAO LUKOIL

9.  

Sergei A. Mikhailov

General Director of OOO Management-Consulting

10.          

Mark Mobius

Executive President of Templeton Asset Management Ltd.

11.          

Alexander N. Shokhin

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (employers), President of the State University – Higher School of Economics

Valery Grayfer was elected Chairman of the newly elected Board of Directors at the Board of Directors meeting held after the Annual General Shareholders Meeting.

In his address to the Annual General Shareholders Meeting President of OAO LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov pointed out, in particular, that the Company’s basic tasks in the near-term include implementation of highly efficient upstream projects, strengthening of its financial position, ensuring positive cash flows in the environment of unstable world economy, and maximization of shareholder return.