This will impact us, just like everyone else," Alekperov told Reuters. According to him, Lukoil has about $20 billion invested in international projects. The targets of sanctions, so far, are companies that are more than 50 percent state-owned, while Lukoil is independently owned. Lukoil bought over 1,300 gas stations from Getty Petroleum in the US in 2000, and currently operates 500 Lukoil branded service stations in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. In March, activists in New Jersey tried to boycott a local gas station as Crimea was preparing to rejoin Russia.