The company "LUKOIL" by 2020 invests in oil about $24 billion, of which $20 billion will be spent on modernization of Russian refineries, said the first Vice-President of the company Viktor Nekrasov. Thus LUKOIL wants to increase oil processing and to avoid the shortage of fuel. Top Manager of the company said that this year the volume of sales of LUKOIL increased by 20-25 % compared with 2010. To upgrade the refinery, the company will begin next year. The company has refineries in six States. In Russia, LUKOIL oil company's four refineries. The Russian government has paid close attention to refining after, in April of this year in some regions of the country erupted petrol crisis, which was based upon the sharp increase in fuel exports. Decided to create a special information system (which will work even in December), to track the progress of modernization of oil refineries.