NOVATEK'S PROFIT ₽112 BLN

NOVATEK - PAO NOVATEK  released its consolidated interim condensed financial statements as of and for the three and nine months ended 30 September 2017 prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS").

** Excluding the effects from the disposal of interests in joint ventures, as well as foreign exchange gains (losses).

In the third quarter of 2017, our total revenues amounted to RR 130.7 billion and Normalized EBITDA, including our share in EBITDA of joint ventures, totalled RR 59.3 billion, representing increases of 3.3% and 2.7%, respectively, as compared to the corresponding period in 2016. In the nine months 2017, our total revenues amounted to RR 414.2 billion and Normalized EBITDA, including our share in EBITDA of joint ventures, totalled RR 183.5 billion, representing increases of 5.3% and 2.3%, respectively, as compared to the corresponding period in 2016. The increases in total revenues and Normalized EBITDA in both periods were largely due to an increase in liquids and natural gas sales prices.

Profit attributable to shareholders of PAO NOVATEK increased to RR 37.7 billion (RR 12.51 per share), or by 3.4%, in the third quarter of 2017 and decreased to RR 112.0 billion (RR 37.13 per share), or by 43.5%, in the nine months 2017 as compared to the corresponding periods of 2016. In 2016, our profit was significantly impacted by the closing in the first quarter 2016 of a transaction for the sale of a 9.9% equity stake in Yamal LNG, as well as by the foreign exchange differences (including at the joint ventures level). Excluding these effects, Normalized profit attributable to shareholders of PAO NOVATEK totalled RR 34.9 billion (RR 11.57 per share) in the third quarter 2017 and RR 113.0 billion (RR 37.47 per share) in the nine months 2017, representing an increase of 11.7% and 15.6%, respectively, as compared to the corresponding periods of 2016.

In the third quarter 2017, our natural gas sales volumes totalled 13.9 billion cubic meters (bcm), representing a decrease of 3.9% as compared to the corresponding period in 2016, and were in line with the planned contracted delivery schedule. Overall, in the nine months 2017, our natural gas sales volumes totalled 47.0 bcm representing an increase of 1.6% as compared to the corresponding period in 2016 due to the increased demand for natural gas from end-customers in the first half of 2017 resulted, among other factors, from weather conditions. As at 30 September 2017, the amount of natural gas recorded as inventory totalled 1.4 bcm as compared to 2.5 bcm at the end of the third quarter of 2016.

In the third quarter 2017, liquid hydrocarbons sales volumes amounted to 3.7 million tons, representing an 11.1% decrease in volumes sold as compared to the third quarter 2016. In the nine months 2017, liquid hydrocarbon sales volumes totalled 11.9 million tons, representing an 8.2% decrease as compared to the nine months 2016. The decrease in both periods was due to a natural decline in gas condensate production volumes at mature fields of our subsidiaries and joint ventures, as well as an increase in liquids inventories as compared to a decrease in the corresponding periods in 2016. As at 30 September 2017, we recorded 969 mt of liquid hydrocarbons in transit or storage and recognized as inventory as compared to 626 mt at 30 September 2016.

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