Appointment of Head of Production

 

TIDMTMAN 
 
RNS Number : 0269N 
Timan Oil & Gas Plc 
09 February 2009 
 

9 February 2009 
 
 
Timan Oil & Gas plc ("Timan" or the "Group") 
 
 
Appointment of Head of Production 
 
 
Timan Oil and Gas ("Timan" or the "Group"), an independent oil and gas 
exploration and production company with its main assets in the Timan-Pechora 
region of Western Russia and the Caspian basin, is pleased to announce with 
immediate effect the appointment of Nikolay Laptev as Head of Production. 
 
 
Mr. Nikolay Nikolayevich Laptev, aged 47, will be overseeing the field 
operations and business development of operating subsidiaries of the Group, 
including NGPT, KNG and Geoterm. 
 
 
Mr. Laptev's oil industry career commenced when he joined Beloil as Deputy 
General Director of its Tyumen operating subsidiary in 1994. He then continued 
his career at Lukoil, the leading Russian oil company, initially as General 
Director of Lukoil-Tyumen, moving on to join the company's Head Office in Moscow 
as Head of Business Development and Oil Products Sales. Mr. Laptev's most recent 
roles at Lukoil were First Deputy General Director at Lukoil-CenterNefteproduct 
and subsequently at Lukoil-Aero. 
 
 
Mr. Laptev graduated from the State Oil and Gas University in Tyumen, followed 
by a Master's Degree at the Russian Transport Academy and a Ph.D at the Moscow 
State Institute of Finance. 
 
 
Commenting on the appointment, Alexander Kapalin, Chief Executive of Timan Oil & 
Gas, said: 
 
 
"We are delighted to welcome Nikolay Laptev to the management team at Timan. His 
broad experience of work in the oil industry, both upstream and downstream, will 
be invaluable, as the Group continues development of its fields towards 
commencement of commercial production. Mr. Laptev's immediate objective is to 
bring the extended Pilot Programme at NGPT to a successful completion." 
 
 
 
 
Enquiries: 
 
 
Timan Oil & Gas Plc 
Alexander Kapalin, Chief Executive Officer 
Zhakyp Marabayev, Chairman 
[phone] 
[phone] 
 
 
Strand Partners Limited 
Rory Murphy 
[phone] 
 
 
Merlin 
Leonid Fink 
Maria Suleymanova 
+ 44 (0) 20 7653 6620 
 
 
 
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