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NOVATEK reports preliminary fourth quarter and full year 2007 operating data

Moscow, 4 February, 2008. OAO NOVATEK today reported preliminary production data for the fourth quarter and full year 2007.

Gross production for the fourth quarter totalled 7.61 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 643 thousand tons of liquids (gas condensate and crude oil). Gross natural gas production increased by 398 million cubic meters, or by 5.5%, and gross liquids production increased by 45 thousand tons, or by 7.6%, as compared with the corresponding gross hydrocarbon production in the fourth quarter 2006.

In 2007, gross production for NOVATEK totalled 28.52 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 2.5 million tons of liquids. Gross natural gas production decreased by 210 million cubic meters, or by less than one-percent, and gross liquids production decreased by 11 thousand tons, or by 0.5%, as compared with the corresponding gross production in 2006. Total gross natural gas production during the 2007 period was consistent with NOVATEK’s revised production targets due primarily to a decrease in natural gas volumes injected into underground storage which was the result of reduced off-take from the underground storage system during the unseasonably warm winter in Russia.

Total gross liquids production was consistent with the Company’s forecasts and takes into account natural declines in the concentration of gas condensate, due to decreasing reservoir pressure at the current gas condensate producing horizons at the East-Tarkosalinskoye and Khancheyskoye fields, and the temporary production stoppage in July 2007 due to planned maintenance and repair work at the fields.

In 2007, NOVATEK processed 2,112 thousand tons of unstable gas condensate at the Purovsky processing plant. In the fourth quarter the plant’s throughput totalled 553 thousand tons.

NOVATEK’s hydrocarbon production for 2006 and 2007

4Q2006	4Q2007	QoQ%	Gross Production	2006	2007	YoY%
7.21	7.61	5.5%	Natural gas, bcm	28.73	28.52	(0.7%)
597	643	7.6%	Liquids, mt	2,496	2,485	(0.5%)

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PAO NOVATEK is the largest independent natural gas producer in Russia, and in 2017, entered the global LNG market by successfully launching the Yamal LNG project. Founded in 1994, the Company is engaged in the exploration, production, processing and marketing of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons. Upstream activities of the Company’s subsidiaries and joint ventures are concentrated mainly in the prolific Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region, which is the world’s largest natural gas producing area and accounts for approximately 80% of Russia’s natural gas production and approximately 15% of the world’s gas production. NOVATEK is a public joint stock company established under the laws of the Russian Federation.