Net profit of Lukoil jumped with 24% for the half year to 4 billion USD
The net profit of Russian oil company Lukoil jumped by almost 24% for the period January-June 2010 yoy to $ 4 billion, according to U.S. accounting standard. This shows basic data published by the consolidated revenue and expenditure of Lukoil. Only second-quarter profit of Lukoil 1,95 billion dollars. Lukoil revenues for August amounted to 49.76 billion dollars, an increase of 42% annually. For the first half the company Lukoil has charged taxes 14.8 billion, of which 1.1 billion dollars tax. The average cost of production during the period increased by 23% yoy to $ 4 per barrel of oil equivalent, which is determined mainly by the increase in cost of wages, increased energy costs and increasing the rate of the ruble, says report Lukoil. Capital costs of Lukoil for the reporting period amounted to 3.2 billion dollars, an increase of almost 5% yoy. The cost for geological exploration work for the period have doubled year on year to 146 million dollars. The extraction of oil from Lukoil for the first half is over 48 million tons of processing volumes of oil in their refineries Lukoil for the period grew by over 8% to 32.4 million tons, in particular, the increase of the processed oil LUKOIL refineries in Russia is 1.5%, while those outside the country is 26%.
Carrefour with 82 million USD profit for the half year
The French retail chain retail Carrefour has issued a profit in the first half of 2010. This is mainly due to the good performance of emerging markets, which offsets the negative effects seen in Western Europe. Of Carrefour profit was 82 million after the first six months of last year was reported a loss of 58 million. Do sales increased by 5.9 percent to 48.9 billion EUR, reported Wall Street Journal. Operating profit for the first half was 1.1 billion following last year were achieved 1.02 billion. Preliminary expectations were for an operating profit of 1.05 billion. This allows the company, which is the second largest chain of retail sales in the world after the American Wal-Mart, to confirm its forecasts for operating profit in 2010. It is a positive result of 3.1 billion. Over the last six months of Carrefour shares have increased by 1,5 per cent of the exchange in Paris. This presentation is much better than the presentation of the overall market as the main CAC 40 index lost 7.5 per cent for the period.