OREANDA-NEWS. LUKOIL refined 13.18 million tons of crude at the Company’s owned and third-party refineries, which is the same as in the first quarter of 2006.

Throughputs at the Company’s own refineries grew by 0.6% y-o-y, to 12.13 million tons.

Throughputs at LUKOIL’s own refineries in Russia increased by 5.5% y-o-y whereas throughputs at own foreign refineries decreased. The decrease of throughputs at the foreign refineries was due to a planned upgrade of the Burgas refinery and optimization of seasonal capacity utilization of the Ploiesti refinery.