Financial  and  Capital Market Commission (FCMC), pursuant to Item 1.10

of  FCMC "Regulations on buyout of shares", hereby advises that a share

buyout  offer  was received on 29.09.2003 from JSC "Kurzemes degviela",

offering  to  buy  out  JSC "Saldus naftas bāze" shares at LVL 0.34 per

share.   Shareholders may respond to the offer within 10 weeks starting

from  the next business day after the advertisement on the share buyout

has been published in the newspaper "Latvijas Vēstnesis".



Share  buyout  comes into effect only after it has been approved by the

Financial and Capital Market Commission.