OREANDA-NEWS. On 03 July 2009 was announced, that at the annual general shareholders meeting the shareholders of JSC Gazprom Neft approved the annual report and annual accounting statements of the Company for 2008.

It was resolved at the meeting that a total of RUR25,603,018.00 out of JSC Gazrpom Neft’s net profit totaling to RUR70,512,869.00 thousand will be disbursed in dividends for 2008. The rate of the dividend amounted to RUR5.40 per an ordinary share. The dividends will be paid before May 31, 2010.

The shareholders of JSC Gazprom Neft elected the Company’s Board of Directors approved by the decision of the Board of Directors on March 5, 2009, as follows:

Alexei Miller, Chairman of the Management Board, JSC Gazprom;

Andrei Kruglov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Head of the Department for Finance and Economics; JSC Gazprom;

Valeri Golubev, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, JSC Gazprom;

Kirill Seleznev, Member of the Management Board, Head of the Department of Marketing and Processing of Gas and Liquid Hydrocarbons, JSC Gazprom;

Vasily Podyuk, Member of the Management Board, Head of the Department of Gas, Gas Condensate and Oil Production, JSC Gazprom;

Olga Pavlova, Member of the Management Board, Head of the Department of Asset Management and Corporate Relations, JSC Gazprom;

Nikolay Dubik, Member of the Management Board, Head of the Legal Department, JSC Gazprom;

Alkexandr Mikheyev, First Deputy Head of the Department of Marketing and Processing of Gas and Liquid Hydrocarbons, JSC Gazprom;

Alexandr Dyukov, General Director, JSC Gazrpom Neft;

Vladimir Alisov, First Deputy Head of the Legal Department, JSC Gazprom.

Like a year before, Andrei Belobrov, Rafael Ishutin and Vitaly Kovalev were elected to the Internal Audit Commission of JSC Gazrpom Neft.

CJSC PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit was appointed auditors of JSC Gazprom Neft for 2009 for Russian and international standards of accounting statements.

The shareholders meeting resolved not to pay remuneration to the Company’s Board of Directors.