Thursday, June 28, 2007

Lukoil First-Quarter Profit Falls 23 Percent as Costs Climb, Prices Drop

(Bloomberg) -- OAO Lukoil, Russia's largest non-
state oil producer, said profit fell 23 percent in the first
quarter as costs rose and prices declined.

Net income slid to $1.3 billion, or $1.56 a share, from
$1.69 billion, or $2.04 a share, a year earlier, Moscow-based
Lukoil said in a statement distributed by the Regulatory News
Service today. That's 5 percent less than the $1.37 billion
median estimate of nine analysts in a Bloomberg survey.


Read more at Bloomberg Emerging Markets News

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