OREANDA-NEWS. September 15, 2009. Veles Capital released daily market review:

MTS might make an offer to minorities of Comstar. After settling the deal on purchasing the controlling portfolio of Comstar-UTS, JSC, MTS will likely place an offer to minority holders of the company. “I suppose yes. It will probably be done”, - said Vladimir Evtushenkov to Interfax, when answering the question about the offer. Speaking about the time constraints of considering the given matter, he said: “The deal will be completed in October, and then it will be alright to turn to another stage. The time constraints of placing the offer depend on many factors”.

LUKOIL will extract 2% more oil in 2009 and also is examining in upstream projects. LUKPOIL expects growth of oil extraction in 2009 at the level of 2%, announced the head of the company Vagit Alekperov to the journalists, imparts Interfax.

Rosneft will save 400 mn USD on export duty nulling. Rosneft plans to save up to 400 mn USD on nulling of export duties for oil deposits of East Siberia, announced the vice-president of the company Sergei Makarov, imparts Interfax.

STC – weak annual results by IAS. Sales of STC in 1H 2009 by IAS formed 10.9 bn RUR versus 10.4 bn RUR a year before. Operating profit grew from 1.8 bn RUR to 2.3 bn RUR. Net profit totaled 525 mn RUR versus 813 mn RUR within a similar period a year before.

Within 8 months Aeroflot reduced carrying by almost 10%. Aeroflot – Russian airlines, JSC reduced passenger carrying by 9.7% within eight months versus the similar period of the previous year to 5.666 mn people.