15 Oct 2012 16:00

Russian oil output up 1%, gas down 3% in 9M - Rosstat

MOSCOW. Oct 15 (Interfax) - Russia produced 386 million tonnes of oil and gas condensate in January-September 2012, 1% more than in the same period of last year, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said.

Gas production, including associated gas, fell 3% to 476 billion cubic meters.

Oil refinery throughputs rose 4.2% to 201 million tonnes.

Gasoline production grew 3.4% to 28.4 million tonnes, diesel fell 3.2% to 51.6 million tonnes and heating oil production rose 1.7% to 54.8 million tonnes.

Russian oil and gas industry output:

	Jan-Sept 2012	Sept 2012 as % of Sept 2011	Sept 2012 as % of Aug 2012	Jan- Sept 2012 as % of Jan- Sept 2011
Oil, including gas condensate, mln tonnes	386	100,2	97,4	101,0
Natural and associated gas, bln cu m	476	102,6	111,3	97,0
Liquefied and regasified gas, mln tonnes	8,0	103,4	103,0	103,5
Oil delivered to refineries, mln tonnes	201	105,1	90,9	104,2
Straight-run gasoline, mln tonnes	9,5	95,1	85,7	97,6
Gasoline, mln tonnes	28,4	104,0	88,6	103,4
Diesel, mln tonnes	51,6	101,4	92,2	96,8
Heating oil, mln tonnes	54,8	103,3	96,3	101,7
Liquefied propane and butane, mln tonnes	8,6	114,4	102,1	107,6

Source: Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat)