At a shareholders' meeting of LatRosTrans Ltd - a subsidiary of the
public
joint stock company Ventspils nafta - changes were introduced in
the
composition of the Supervisory Council of LatRosTrans Ltd, with the
appointment
of new leadership of the Supervisory Council. 
 
For the next
three years, Simon Boddy - the Chairman of the Management Board of
JSC
Ventspils nafta, Jeffrey Martz - Senior Commercial Representative of the
Vitol
Group, Dmitry Vinogradov - distillates trader for the Vitol Group in
Moscow,
Mikhail Dvorak - member of the Supervisory Council of JSC Ventspils
nafta, and
Olga Kurenkova - Operations Manager of VNT S.A. in Moscow, which is
a company
within JSC Ventspils nafta shareholder, the Vitol Group, will work in
the
Supervisory Council of LatRosTrans Ltd on behalf of JSC Ventspils
nafta,
representing 66% of capital of LatRosTrans Ltd. 

The other co-owner
of LatRosTrans Ltd - the Russian JSC Transnefteprodukt (34%
of capital) - will
be represented on the Supervisory Council of LatRosTrans Ltd
by Mickhail
Arustamov - the First Vice President of the Russian JSC Transneftj,
Vladimir
Nazarov - the First Vice President of JSC Transnefteprodukt, and
Dmitry Barkov
- Deputy Head of Legal Department of JSC Transnefteprodukt. 

S.Boddy has
been appointed as the Chairman and M.Arustamovs - as the Deputy
Chairman of
the Supervisory Council of LatRosTrans Ltd. 
LatRosTrans Ltd is the owner and
operator of crude oil and petroleum products
main pipeline in the territory of
Latvia. 

JSC Ventspils nafta
For further information -
Gundega Vārpa,
Public Relations and Advertising Manager,
tel.: +371 67229182;
e-mail:
gundega.varpa@vnafta.lv
www.vnafta.lv; www.latrostrans.lv