15 Feb 2013 16:54

Russian oil output down 1.7%, gas up 2.9% in Jan - Rosstat

MOSCOW. Feb 15 (Interfax) - Russia produced 43 million tonnes of oil and gas condensate in January 2013, 1.7% less than in the same month of last year, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said.

Natural gas production, including associated gas, grew 2.6% to 64.8 billion cubic meters.

Oil refinery throughputs rose 4% to 23.5 million tonnes.

Gasoline production grew 5.9% to 3.4 million tonnes, diesel grew 6.9% to 6.3 million tonnes and heating oil production rose 4.3% to 6.7 million tonnes.

Russian oil and gas industry output:

	January 2013	January 2013/January 2012, %	January 2013/December 2012, %
Oil, including gas condensate, mln tonnes	43,0	98,3	97,1
Natural and associated gas, bln cu m	64,8	102,6	99,9
Liquefied and regasified gas, mln tonnes	1,0	94,7	97,8
Oil delivered to refineries, mln tonnes	23,5	104,0	98,6
Straight-run gasoline, mln tonnes	1,1	93,3	96,1
Gasoline, mln tonnes	3,4	105,9	97,3
Diesel, mln tonnes	6,3	106,9	99,2
Heating oil, mln tonnes	6,7	104,3	99,5
Dry gas, bcm	1,4	106,4	100,8
Natural gasoline, '000 tonnes	510	98,5	102,9

Source: Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat)