Alexander Cornelius has been appointed Vice President for Production Services and Project Support. Sergey Suchok has been appointed Vice President for Production. Marat Salikhov has been appointed West Qurna-2 Asset Manager, combining this with his duties as Director of the Basra Branch of LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd. operating company.Alexander Cornelius was born in the United Kingdom in 1947. He started his professional career in 1963 and obtained an Honors Engineering Degree at Strathclyde University in Glasgow in 1972. Mr. Cornelius continued to work in Engineering and Management assignments in the petrochemical industry before joining Chevron in 1982. In 2001 he became Vice President of Chevron Overseas Petroleum and in 2003 – General Director of Tengizchevroil (operator of the Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan). From 2006 to 2010 Cornelius held the position of Vice President for Refinery Operations at Chevron. Since 2013 he has worked as Advisor to President of LUKOIL Overseas.

Sergey Suchok was born in 1971. He graduated from Perm State Technical University with majors in Mining Engineering (1993) and Management (2002). Since 1989 he held labor-level as well as engineering and technical positions in the oil sector and since 1996 he worked at LUKOIL companies in the Perm region. Mr. Suchok has worked at LUKOIL Overseas since 2004. In 2008-2009 he worked in ConocoPhillips (USA) as part of a trainee program. He has been Vice President for Production Services of LUKOIL Overseas since 2011.

Marat Salikhov was born in 1967. He graduated from Ufa State Petroleum Technological University with a major in Mining Engineering/Geophysics (1991) and held various engineering and technical positions at LUKOIL in Western Siberia. Since 2010 Mr. Salikhov has worked at LUKOIL Overseas as Chief Operating Officer of the West Qurna-2 project.