Operational update for May 2012

Alliance Oil Company Ltd
Company Announcement

Operational update for May 2012

Alliance Oil Company’s average daily oil production for May 2012 amounted to
54,422 bopd. In the first five months of 2012, oil production totalled 8.4 mbbl
compared to 6.7 mbbl in the same period in 2011. Preliminary average daily
refining volumes at the Khabarovsk refinery amounted to 81,946 bopd in May
2012. In the first five months of 2012 refining throughput totalled 11.5 mbbl
compared to 10.7 mbbl in the same period in 2011. 

Preliminary operating results in barrels per day:

                   Upstream                     Downstream        
  2012    Production  Crude oil sales  Refining  Oil product sales
------------------------------------------------------------------
 January    59,421         56,734       77,531        65,865      
February    55,187         54,444       78,390        77,634      
 March      54,481         49,752       69,129        69,377      
 April      52,918         52,297       70,888        72,625      
   May      54,422         53,689       81,946        93,600      



The average daily production at the Kolvinskoye oil field amounted to 13,309
bopd with a total of 0.4 mbbl produced in May 2012. 

An operational update for June and the second quarter 2012 will be disclosed on
July 10, 2012. 



For further information please contact:

Arsen Idrisov, Managing Director, Alliance Oil Company, Tel.: +7 495 777 18 08

Eric Forss, Chairman, Alliance Oil Company, Tel.: +46 8 611 49 90



Also visit www.allianceoilco.com



Alliance Oil Company Ltd is a leading independent oil company with vertically
integrated operations in Russia and Kazakhstan. Alliance Oil has proved and
probable oil reserves of 648 million barrels and downstream operations that
includes the Khabarovsk refinery and the leading network of gas stations and
wholesale oil products terminals in the Russian Far East. Alliance Oil's
depository receipts are traded on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic under the symbol AOIL.
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