OREANDA-NEWS  On 02 December was announced, that LUKOIL presented a draft of “Environmental Safety Program for 2009-2013 and Forecast until 2017” in Khanty-Mansiysk.

The Program is aimed at improving the environmental management system and minimizing the negative environmental impact caused by the Company’s operations.

The Program includes activities aimed at utilization of oil and associated gas, realization of the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms, production enhancement of environmentally friendly Euro 4 and Euro 5 compliant fuel, ensuring the environmental impact is within the requirements of the national and international legislation.

LUKOIL Group Environmental Safety Program for 2009-2013 includes 494 activities totaling RUR 57.5 billion.

Estimates of LUKOIL experts suggest that the economic effect of the program implementation may come to over RUR 12 billion.

The following enterprises of the Company operate in the Urals Federal District: LUKOIL-Zapadnaya Sibir, LUKOIL - Uralnefteproduct, LUKOIL-AIK, RITEK.

The amount of financing for the “Environmental Safety Program for 2009- 2013” in the Urals Federal District is expected to come to over RUR 15.5 billion.

The following objectives are expected to be achieved upon the Program implementation in the Northwestern Federal District:

•        A 415 thousand ton cut of pollutant emissions into the atmosphere;

•        Recycling of 600 thousand tons of waste including oil-bearing waste;

•        Rehabilitation of 2,650 hectares of disturbed and contaminated lands.

The economic effect to be achieved upon program implementation in the Urals Federal District may come to over RUR 1.35 billion.

LUKOIL intends to present the “Environmental Safety Program of the LUKOIL Group organizations for 2009-2013 and the Forecast until 2017” draft by the end of 2008 to the representatives of government organizations, the general public and mass media in all federal districts of the Russian Federation where the Company operates. Thus, for the Volga Federal District the Program was presented in Perm on November 12, 2008, for the Northwestern – in Syktyvkar on November 20, 2008.

Presentation of the Program for the Southern Federal District will take place in Volgograd on December 4, 2008, for the Central Federal District – in Moscow on December  15-19, 2008.

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