Lukoil invests about $ 5 billion in the Caspian

Moscow (Reuters) - the largest private oil producer in the Russian Federation - Lukoil invests about $ 5 billion in the Caspian region in 2011-2017, according to the presentation of the company in 2010. Lukoil also said that the benefits of paying the export duty provided by the companies will bring it $ 4 billion in 2011-2013, and $ 1 billion at the expense of Caspian exports. Lukoil received a benefit of Caspian oil at the end of last year. So, in March 2011, the size of the export fee for oil is $ 365 per ton in Russia, and the preferential rate, which applies to the Caspian and East Siberian deposits - $ 150.4 per ton. The presentation also states that proven hydrocarbons at six Caspian deposits exceed 1.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Currently, Lukoil is actively developing six deposits in the north of the Caspian: Khvalynskoye, 170th kilometer, named after Y. Korchagin, Rakushchechny, Sarmatian and named after V. Filanovsky. (Olesya Astakhova, Vlasta Demyanenko, editor Alexander Ershov)