Report: CEO says Russia’s Lukoil to pay $2 bln in 2015 divs

MOSCOW, Jan 29 (PRIME) -- Russian oil company Lukoil will pay U.S. $2.16 billion in dividends for 2015, CEO Vagit Alekperov told Austrian newspaper Format in an interview posted Friday.

Alekperov said that Lukoil had a high profit and a stable performance in 2015.

Lukoil paid 130.987 billion rubles in final dividends for 2014. The net profit was 371.8 billion rubles, as calculated under Russian Accounting Standards (RAS).

The CEO separately said that the oil price is expected to reach U.S. $60 in late 2016.

(77.3674 rubles – U.S. $1)

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