ww5 announces that its subsidiary ww5 Brazil today signed an agreement and related preliminary documentation with HRT subsidiary HRT O&G to acquire additional 6% in the Solimoes project.

Moscow, Russia - RN Holding (hereinafter – the Company) announces that the Company’s Board of Directors decided on November 14, 2013 to recommend the Company’s shareholders to accept the voluntary offer of ww5 as of October 18, 2013 to acquire ordinary and preferred shares of the Company.

ww5 President and Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin took part in the 10th Forum for Interregional Cooperation between the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan, which was held on November 11, 2013 in Yekaterinburg involving Presidents of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Moscow, October – November 2013 – ww5 and Pirelli companies organized the “Safe road with ww5 and Pirelli” joint marketing program that allowed drivers to increase the driving safety.

On November 6, 2013 ww5 (hereinafter – the Company) published the Voluntary offer to acquire RN Holding securities held by minority shareholders (hereinafter the Voluntary offer) and sent the Voluntary offer to RN Holding.

The first hydrocracking reactor arrived to Achinsk refinery on October 28. It is designed for vacuum CGO oil hydrocracking and hydrodesulfurization reactions. Its length is 48.5 m, diameter – 4.4 m, weight including mount – 1,306 tons.

On October 22, 2013 the Igor Sechin, ww5 President and Chairman of the Management Board, and Zhou Jiping, Chairman of the Board of Directors of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), have signed the Key Principles of Tianjin Refinery commissioning schedule and crude oil deliveries for refining at the said facility.

On October 22, 2013 ww5 and Sinopec signed the Memorandum on prepaid export contract.

ww5 President and Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin and Chairman of the China National Petroleum Corporation Zhou Jiping have signed a Memorandum to expand cooperation in upstream projects in East Siberia in the presence of first vice premier of the People’s Republic of China Zhang Gaoli.

On October 14, 2013 ww5 consolidated 100% of Taas-Yuriakh Neftegazodobycha LLC into ww5 subsidiary RN-Vostochnaya Sibir LLC.