* Malka Oil acquires the remaining 1% in its subsidiary STS-Service
* Payment consists of 6 million newly issued shares in Malka Oil
The Swedish parent company Malka Oil has acquired the remaining 1%
part in its subsidiary OOO STS-Service, which is conducting the
group's daily operations in Western Siberia. As a result of the
transaction OOO STS-Service becomes a fully owned subsidiary of
Malka Oil AB. The payment consists of 6 million shares that have
been newly issued within the mandate from the 2007 annual general
meeting.
The seller of the 1% share is one of the three founders of Malka
Oil, Mr Vacha Sobraliev.
As part of the deal the outstanding lawsuits in Tomsk between Mr
Sobraliev and the Malka Oil Group will be terminated.
"It is excellent to make the ownership structure of Malka Oil more
clear and to put these historical controversies behind us. A 100%
ownership of our subsidiary is also expected to make our assets
more transparent and easier to analyse" says Fredrik Svinhufvud,
managing director of Malka Oil.
For further information, please contact:
Fredrik Svinhufvud, Managing Director Malka Oil, tel +46 8 5000
7811, mobile +46 708 708 708
Richard Tejme, CFO, tel +46 8 5000 7812 mobile +46 707 31 52 17
For further information on Malka Oil AB, see the website
www.malkaoil.se
Malka Oil AB (publ) is an independent oil and gas production
company operating in the Tomsk region in western Siberia. Their
current position consists of oil and gas assets for license block
number 87 in the said region. The block has a surface of 1,800
square kilometres. There are currently three oil fields at the
license block, namely Zapadno-Luginetskoye ("ZL"), Lower
Luginetskoye ("LL") and the Schinginskoye oil field, and a large
quantity of other not yet drilled oil structures. The ZL and LL oil
fields are in production and these two oil fields field have also
went through reserve classification by the Russian State Committee
of Reserves (GKZ). A considerable drilling programme was carried
out in 2007. The GKZ registered extractable oil and condensate
reserves in the categories C1 and C2 amounted to 97 million barrels
at the end of 2007. The company's own estimate of its extractable
oil and condensate reserves in the three existing oil fields on
license block number 87 is currently 140-190 million barrels.
Malka Oil's license block is surrounded by a large number of
producing oil and gas fields.
Reasonable caution notice: The statement and assumptions made in
the company's information regarding Malka Oil AB's ("Malka")
current plans, prognoses, strategies, concepts and other statements
that are not historical facts are estimations or "forward looking
statements" concerning Malka's future activities. Such future
estimations comprise but are not limited to statements that include
words such as "may occur", "concerning", "plans", "expects","estimates", "believes", "evaluates", "prognosticates" or similar
expressions. Such expressions reflect the management of Malka's
expectations and assumptions made on the basis of information
available at that time. These statements and assumptions are
subject to a large number of risks and uncertainties. These, in
their turn, comprise but are not limited to i) changes in the
financial, legal and political environment of the countries in
which Malka conducts business, ii) changes in the available
geological information concerning the company's projects in
operation, iii) Malka's capacity to continuously guarantee
sufficient financing to perform their activities as a "going
concern", iv) the success of all participants in the group, or of
the various interested companies, joint ventures or secondary
alliances, v) changes in currency exchange rates, in particular
those relating to the RUR/USD rate. Due to the background of the
many risks and uncertainties that exist for any oil-prospecting
venture and oil production company in its initial stage, Malka's
actual future development may significantly deviate from that
indicated in the company's informative statements. Malka assumes no
implicit liability to immediately update any such future
evaluations.
