Media outlook in 2008

This has been announced by Felix Lunev, "TNK-BP Commerce" Vice President on Sales and Logistics, at the "Ukrainian oil products' market: "Development trends, technologies, and equipment" Conference.

In November the Lisichansk oil refinery contracted approximately 14 thousand tons of oil from the Kazakhstan "Koumkol'" oil deposit.

TNK-BP Moscow office has made a decision to freeze projects in downstream because of the financial crisis.

The Ukrainian oil products' market is estimated at the level of 12,4 billion US dollars. But its attractiveness for Ukrainian producers goes down year by year.

The Ukrainian processing companies have finally drawn up their production plans at the beginning of December.

The joint program of "Ukraine 3000" International Charitable Foundation and "TNK-BP Commerce" Company, named "Happiness of Childhood — free movements", and Professor Vladimir Kozyavkin, the Director of the International rehabilitation treatment clinic, have started an action to help children with the infantile cerebral paralysis diagnosis, living in the regions, which suffered from the natural disaster in summer 2008.

Recently the investigating department of the Lugansk oblast' Prosecution Office has finished the procedures on the criminal case, accusing 18 citizens, including 4 former policemen, on the fact of surreptitious larceny of the property, belonging to the CJSC "LINIK".

A sharp decrease in the income, together with instability at financial markets, has made oil companies take the road of the dramatic reduction of their expenditures.

Starting from November, "Tsvetik-Sevitsvetik" (Magic seven-petal flower) Rehabilitation Center, working on the basis of the Donetsk oblast' non-governmental organization, named "Infantile cerebral paralysis. With hope for the future", has arranged the work of a sensory room.

According to the data of the Committee on protection of consumers, the under-filling at branded fuel stations, owned by large retail networks, states for only 5 % from the total number of the violations revealed.

The Company hopes that the Government, together with the market participants, will succeed in approving a package of solutions, which will lead to normalization of work of the Ukrainian oil processing industry.

The State Committee on Consumer Standards of Ukraine has recently presented the results of the oil products' quality control tests.

A substantial grant of 50 thousand hryvnya has fallen to the lot of the Novoazovsk city "Health" Medical and Rehabilitation Center.

The sudden reduction of oil prices has revealed an unexpected perspective for Ukrainian oil refineries — they may once again become active participants at the market.

The transfer of the machinery was carried out in the middle of October at the territory of the Vasyl'kivka oil storage depot.

The CJSC "LINIK" has considerably minimized the volumes of hazardous emissions — for 1 thousand 700 tons a year thanks to the improvement of the technological processes at the Lisichansk oil refinery.

The second largest Ukrainian oil refinery (based on the capacity), located at the city of Lisichansk and belonging to TNK-BP, has resumed spot wholesale trading of automobile gasolines and diesel fuel after the break for several days and has significantly decreased the selling prices.

Yuliya Timoshenko still has succeeded in coming to an agreement with national operators.

An article about the way Ukrainian companies take care about the health of their employees.