Operational update for November 2012

Alliance Oil Company Ltd
Company Announcement

Operational update for November 2012

Alliance Oil Company’s average oil production for November 2012 amounted to
52,325 bopd. In the first eleven months of 2012, oil production totalled 18.1
mbbl compared to 16.0 mbbl in the same period in 2011. Preliminary average
refining volumes at the Khabarovsk refinery amounted to 82,067 bopd in November
2012. In the first eleven months of 2012 refining throughput totalled 26.8 mbbl
compared to 24.6 mbbl in the same period in 2011. 

The forecasted total oil production for 2012 amounts to approximately 19.7
million barrels or an average daily production of approximately 54,000 barrels,
in line with previous guidance. The total refining volumes 2012 are forecasted
at approximately 29.3 million barrels or an average of approximately 80,000
barrels per day (previous guidance 77,000 bopd). 

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      
1st quarter    56,363         53,643       75,017        70,959      
   April       52,918         52,297       70,888        72,326      
    May        54,422         53,544       81,946        93,238      
   June        53,279         53,416       82,260        83,224      
2nd quarter    53,540         53,086       78,404        82,930      
   July        53,732         57,533       83,643        85,823      
   August      53,473         50,306       84,809        89,682      
 September     52,725         51,113       85,417        89,733      
3rd quarter    53,309         52,984       84,580        88,413      
  October      52,947         48,602       82,943        85,406      
 November      52,325         53,692       82,067        78,317      



The average production at the Kolvinskoye oil field amounted to 11,666 bopd
with a total of 0.35 mbbl produced in November 2012. 

Upstream and downstream production data for December 2012 and fourth quarter
2012 will be disclosed on January 11, 2013. Fourth quarter and full year 2012
financial results will be disclosed on February 21, 2013. 

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 and gas company with
vertically integrated operations in Russia and Kazakhstan. Alliance Oil has
proved and probable oil reserves of 760 million barrels of oil equivalent 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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