OREANDA-NEWS. May 04, 2011. A traveling meeting of the JSC  LUKOIL Board of Directors was held in Astrakhan today to make decisions related to the Annual General Shareholders Meeting.

Among other things, the Board of Directors resolved to hold the meeting on June 23, 2011, at 11:00 am at: 11, Sretensky Boulevard, Moscow, JSC  LUKOIL. The record date for the list of the shareholders entitled to participate in the General Shareholders Meeting is May 6, 2011.

The Board of Directors intends to recommend that dividends for the 2010 financial year be paid to the shareholders in the amount of 59 rubles per ordinary share (as opposed to 52 rubles in 2009). The amount of dividends is calculated on the basis of the sum allocated to dividend payment, which equals RUR 50, 183, 232 thousand.

The shareholders will also have to elect an JSC  LUKOIL Board of Directors, consisting of 11 members, the Audit Commission, consisting of 3 members, and to appoint the President of JSC  LUKOIL.

The following candidates were nominated to the Board of Directors:

1

Vagit Yu. Alekperov

President of JSC  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

Valery I. Grayfer

Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC  RITEK

5

German O. Gref

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

6

Igor S. Ivanov

former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation

7

Ravil U. Maganov

First Executive Vice President of JSC  LUKOIL

8

Richard H. Matzke

former Vice Chairman of the Chevron Corporation

9

Sergei A. Mikhailov

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Capital Asset Management, member of the Board of Directors of Capital Managing Company

10

Mark Mobius

Executive Chairman of Templeton Asset Management Ltd.

11

Guglielmo Antonio Claudio Moscato

Chairman and CEO of Gas Mediterraneo & Petrolio, former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Eni SpA, former Chairman and CEO of Agip SpA

12

Alexander N. Shokhin

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

The following candidates were nominated for election to the Audit Commission:

1

Pavel G. Kondratiev

Chief Accountant of LLC  LUKOIL-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez

2

Vladimir N. Nikitenko

President of JSC  Petrocommerce Bank

3

Mikhail M. Shendrik

Chief Accountant of LLC  LUKOIL-West-Siberia

Vagit Yu. Alekperov, President of JSC  LUKOIL, was nominated for President of JSC  LUKOIL.

The Board of Directors took into consideration the Development Progress Report of the North Caspian fields. A decision was made to consider further implementation of the Caspian projects high-priority trends in oil and gas production enhancement for the short- and mid-term period. For the purpose of further extension of the raw material base and timely implementation of offshore field construction projects it was deemed necessary to conduct extra exploration works, to commission offshore V.Filanovsky fields in 2015 and the Sarmatskoye field in 2017 as well as to adjust the Development Concept for Offshore Fields located in the licensed areas of the Company, such as the North Caspian Sea, in view of the outcomes of the exploration works.

To improve the internal control, internal audit and risk management systems, the Board of Directors approved the Provision on Internal Control and Internal Audit and the Risk Management Policy of JSC  LUKOIL.