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LUKOIL NET INCOME REACHED $5.3 BILLION IN NINE MONTHS OF 2009



PRESS RELEASE December 8, 2009
LUKOIL NET INCOME REACHED $5.3 BILLION IN NINE MONTHS OF 2009
LUKOIL publishes consolidated US GAAP financial accounts for the third quarter and nine months of 2009.

The Companys net income was $5,285 million in the nine months of 2009, including $2,056 million in the third quarter.

EBITDA was $10,237 million.

Revenues from sales were $56,802 million.

Free cash flow was $1,442 million in the nine months of 2009, including $1,297 million in the third quarter compared to -$84 million in the second quarter. The Companys tax expenses totalled $15.3 billion in the nine months of 2009, including income tax expense of $1.6 billion. Lifting costs per boe of production in the nine months of 2009 decreased by 19% y-o-y, to $3.39 from $4.16 in the nine months of 2008. Capital expenditures including non-cash transactions in the nine months of 2009 were $4.7 billion which is 40% lower y-o-y.

Reduction of capital expenditures was in line with the anti-crisis program developed by the Company in the beginning of the year. LUKOIL Group total hydrocarbon production available for sale reached 2,214 th.

boe per day in the nine months of 2009, which is a 1.1% increase y-o-y.

Crude oil production by LUKOIL Group increased by 3.3% y-o-y to 1,978 th.

barrels per day. Crude oil production of LUKOIL Group in the nine months of 2009 totalled 73.28 mln tons.

At the same time, crude oil output from the Yuzhnaya Khylchuya field in Timan-Pechora, brought into production in the third quarter of 2008, reached 5.1 mln tons.

Natural and petroleum gas output of LUKOIL Group available for sale was 10.94 bcm: output as part of international projects totalled 3.40 bcm (grew by 15.1% y-o-y), output in Russia was down 23.3% y-o-y to 7.54 bcm. Throughputs at the Companys refineries (including its share in throughput at the ISAB and TRN refining complexes) increased by 10.9% y-o-y in the nine months of 2009 and reached 46.55 mln tons.

Throughputs at the Companys refineries in Russia increased by 0.9% y-o-y, throughputs at the Companys international refineries grew by 49.1% y-o-y. Crude oil exports in the nine months of 2009 increased by 10.3% to 31.8 million tons (853 th.

barrels per day), exports of petroleum products grew by 10.5% y-o-y to 21.3 million tons.

LUKOIL sold 112.5 million tons of crude oil and petroleum products, which is 13.1% higher y-o-y. LUKOIL copes with the difficult macroeconomic situation and secures positive free cash flow thanks to implementing measures aimed at higher efficiency which were developed in the beginning of the year.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME (Millions of US dollars, unless otherwise noted)
9 months of
2009 2008
(millions of US dollars) Revenues
Sales (including excise and export tariffs)..............................................................

56,802 89,265
Costs and other deductions
Operating expenses................................................................ ...............................

(5,015) (5,882) Cost of purchased crude oil, gas and products......................................................

(21,475) (31,956) Transportation expenses................................................................ .......................

(3,594) (4,048) Selling, general and administrative expenses..........................................................

(2,398) (2,832) Depreciation, depletion and amortization............................................................ .

(3,001) (2,098) Taxes other than income taxes................................................................... ............

(4,569) (11,124) Excise and export tariffs................................................................. .......................

(9,176) (16,342) Exploration expense................................................................. .............................

(188) (273) Gain (loss) on disposals and impairments of assets.............................................

15 (210) Income from operating activities.............................................................. ........

7,401 14,500
Interest expense................................................................. ....................................

(503) (259) Interest and dividend income.................................................................. ...............

105 113 Equity share in income of affiliates.............................................................. .........

270 462 Currency translation loss ........................................................................ .............

(337) (165) Other non-operating income (expense)............................................................... ..

37 (115) Income before income taxes................................................................... ...........

6,973 14,536
Current income taxes................................................................... ..........................

(1,430) (3,899) Deferred income taxes................................................................... ........................

(123) 205 Total income tax expense................................................................. .................

(1,553) (3,694)
Net income.................................................................. .........................................

5,420 10,842
Less: net income attributable to noncontrolling interests......................................

(135) (77)
Net income attributable to OAO LUKOIL......................................................

5,285 10,765
Basic and diluted earning per share of common stock attributable to OAO LUKOIL (in US dollars)................................................................ .............

6.24 12.85
Full consolidated US GAAP financial accounts of LUKOIL for the nine months of 2009 are available on the Companys web sites: www.lukoil.com and www.lukoil.ru These consolidated interim financial statements have been prepared by the Company in accordance with U.S.

GAAP and have not been audited by our independent auditor.

If these financial statements are audited in the future, the audit could reveal discrepancies, and we cannot give any assurance that any such discrepancies would not be material.
Best regards, Marina Santalova (Lylova) LUKOIL IR +7 (499) 973 7397



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