OREANDA-NEWS. April 27, 2012. A traveling meeting of the OJSC LUKOIL Board of Directors was held in Barcelona (Spain) today to make decisions related to the 2012 Annual General Shareholders Meeting.

Among other things, the Board of Directors resolved to hold the meeting on June 27, 2012, at 11:00 am at: 11 Sretensky Boulevard, Moscow, OJSC LUKOIL.

 The record date for the list of the shareholders entitled to participate in the General Shareholders Meeting is May 11, 2012.

The Board of Directors intends to recommend that dividends for the 2011 financial year be paid to the shareholders in the amount of 75 rubles per ordinary share, which is 27.1% higher compared with the previous year dividend (59 rubles for the 2010 financial year). The amount of dividends is calculated on the basis of the sum allocated to dividend payment which equals 63,792,244 thousand rubles, or 19.13% of the consolidated net profit under the US GAAP, or 26.29% of the net profit of OJSC LUKOIL.

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

The following candidates were nominated to the Board of Directors:

 
1 Vagit Yu. Alekperov  President of OJSC LUKOIL

2 Igor V. Belikov Director of the Russian Institute of Directors

3 Victor V. Blazheev Rector of the Moscow State Law Academy

4 Valery I. Grayfer Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC RITEK

5 Igor S. Ivanov  former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation

6 Ravil U. Maganov  First Executive Vice-President of OJSC LUKOIL

7 Richard H. Matzke  former Vice Chairman of the Chevron Corporation

8 Sergei A. Mikhailov  Chairman of the Board of Directors of ZAO Kapital Upravleniye Aktivami [Kapital Asset Management]; Deputy General Director of OOO Upravlyayushchaya Kompaniya Kapital [Kapital Management Company]

9 Mark Mobius  Executive Chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group

10 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

11 Ivan Pictet Member of the UN Investments Committee of the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund Board (NY, USA), Board member of Blackstone Group International Limited, AEA European Advisory Board, AEA Investors LP Global Advisory Board (NY, USA), Symbiotics. Former Senior Managing Partner of Pictet & Cie

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 Mikhail B. Maximov General Director of OOO LUKOIL-Regional Accounting Centre Perm

2 Vladimir N. Nikitenko President of OJSC Petrocommerce Bank

3 Alexander V. Surkov General Director of OOO LUKOIL-Regional Accounting Centre Volgograd.