Deputy managing director of Lukoil Polska Vladimir Zandier has said Russian Lukoil is to acquire 200 petrol stations in Poland, the Polish PAP news agency reported on Monday.

According to Zandier, Lukoil plans to increase the number of its petrol gas stations in Poland to 300.

The Russian oil concern now has 87 petrol stations in Poland. At the end of 2006 it bought from American ConocoPhillips 83 stations and four from British BP at the start of this year.

According to Gennadij Krasovski, deputy director of the concern 's Investment Analyses Department, Lukoil wants to have a 10 to 15 percent share on the markets in the region.

Lukoil has 5,830 petrol stations in 18 countries.

Source: Xinhua