Russia ups oil output 0.7% in 10 months
MOSCOW. Nov 2 (Interfax) - Russia's oil and gas condensate output grew 0.7% year-on-year to 437.886 million tonnes (10.558 million barrels a day) in January-October 2014, the Central Dispatching Department of the Fuel and Energy Complex (CDU TEK) said.
Russia produced 44.838 million tonnes of oil in October, with average daily production at 10.602 million barrels.
In the 10 months, Rosneft produced 159.100 million tonnes of oil (16.251 million tonnes in October), Lukoil - 72.060 million tonnes (7.382 million tonnes), Surgutneftegas - 51.140 million tonnes (5.224 million tonnes), Gazprom Neft - 28.003 million tonnes (2.874 million tonnes), Tatneft - 22.092 million tonnes (2.259 million tonnes), Slavneft - 13.504 million tonnes (1.348 million tonnes), Bashneft - 14.667 million tonnes (1.591 million tonnes) and Russneft - 7.179 million tonnes (0.714 million tonnes).
Wholly Russian-owned companies and joint ventures produced 41.315 million tonnes of oil and condensate in January-October (4.369 million tonnes in October).
Gazprom produced 13.275 million tonnes of oil in the 10 months, and 1.365 million tonnes in October. Production-sharing project operators contributed 11.937 million tonnes (1.098 million tonnes).
