OREANDA-NEWS. TMK, one of the world’s leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, today announces that the Board of Directors decided to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (EGM) in the form of an absentee voting on October 12, 2015.

The record date for the list of shareholders eligible to participate in the EGM is September 8, 2015.

TMK’s Board of Directors recommended the EGM to approve interim dividends for the first six months of 2015 of RUR 2.42 per share of the nominal value of RUR 10, amounting to a total of RUR 2,400,415,569.20 (approximately USD 35.6 mln). Dividends record date will be determined by the EGM.

Payout period for the registered shareholders and trustees, who are professional participants of the stock market, is before November 9, 2015. For other registered shareholders payout period is before November 30.

Consolidated IFRS net profit for the first six months of 2015 was $77 million.