17 Mar 2016 16:56

Russian oil output up 4%, gas down 1.5% in 2M - Rosstat

MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax) - Russia produced 90 million tonnes of oil and gas condensate in January-February 2016, 4% more than in the same period of last year, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said.

Natural gas production fell, by 1.5% to 98.7 billion cubic meters.

Associated petroleum gas production totaled 613.9 bcm, or 9.4% more than a year previously.

Oil refinery throughputs fell 3.6% to 46 million tonnes.

Output of refined products fell markedly: production was down 3.4% for gasoline, 4.1% for diesel and 21.6% for fuel oil.

However, lubricant production rose 23.9% in 2M 2016, propane and butane production rose 7.6% and dry gas - up 6.5%.

Russian oil and gas industry output:

	January-February 2016	February 2016/ February 2015, %	February 2016/ January 2016, %	January-February 2016/January-February 2015, %
Oil, including gas condensate, mln tonnes	90.0	107.2	95.5	104.0
Natural and associated gas, bln cu m	98.7	97.2	83.8	98.5
Associated petroleum gas, bln cu m	13.9	113.4	95.2	109.4
Oil delivered to refineries, mln tonnes	46.0	96.8	92.8	96.4
Straight-run gasoline, mln tones	2.1	93.5	89.0	96.8
Gasoline, mln tonnes	6.6	99.3	94.4	96.6
Diesel, mln tonnes	12.5	96.7	94.3	95.9
Fuel oil, mln tonnes	10.3	76.9	87.7	78.4
Lubricating oils, '000 tonnes	575	121.4	96.2	123.9
Propane and butane, mln tonnes	2.7	113.2	98.2	107.6
Dry gas, bln cu m	11.1	108.5	92.5	106.5

Source: Rosstat.