Russia's oil production in the first half of this year, a slight increase
Dispatching Bureau of the Russian energy industry data released showed that the Russian oil and gas condensate extraction of 236 million tons in the first half of this year, an increase of 2.5% over the same period last year; Russian oil exports to countries outside the CIS reached104 million tons, an increase of 5%.The data show that in the first six months of this year, Luke exploitation of oil 44,440,000 tons, ranking the first of the Russian oil company. Place, followed by extraction followed by Rosneft, TNK - BP and Surgut oil and gas company.
The data also show that the first half of this year, Russia's natural gas production was 333.1 billion cubic meters, an increase of 2.3% over the same period last year. Russian Gazprom mining 278.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas, essentially flat compared with the same period last year.
In 2005, Russian oil production was 4.7 million tons, natural gas production was 640.6 billion cubic meters, an increase of 2.4% and 1%, respectively, compared with 2004.