17 May 2012 18:06

Russian oil production up 1.9% in 4M - Rosstat

MOSCOW. May 17. (Interfax) - Russian oil and gas condensate production grew 1.9% year-on-year to 170 million tonnes in January-April 2012, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) reported.

Production of natural gas, including associated gas, edged up 0.3% to 241 billion cubic meters (bcm) in the four months.

Primary oil refining in Russia climbed 5.4% to 88.2 million tonnes.

Automobile gasoline output in the four months reached 12.2 million tonnes (a year-on-year increase of 106.4%). Diesel fuel production soared 96.4% to 22.6 million tonnes. In the first quarter of 2012, Russian oil refineries turned out 24.8 million tonnes of fuel oil (up 10.3%).

Output of main oil and gas industry products:

	January-April 2012	April 2012/April 2011 - %	April 2012/March 2012 - %	January-April 2012/January-April 2011 - %
Oil, including gas condensate, mln tonnes	170	100,4	96,5	101,9
Natural and associated gas, bcm	241	97,1	90,0	100,3
Combustible, natural, liquefied, regasified gas, mln tonnes	4,0	101,5	92,8	102,5
Oil receiving for refining, mln tonnes	88,2	102,2	93,5	105,4
Straight-run gasoline, mln tonnes	4,2	89,0	95,1	96,0
Automobile gasoline, mln tonnes	12,2	104,6	87,1	106,4
Diesel fuel, mln tonnes	22,6	93,4	92,1	96,4
Fuel oil, mln tonnes	24,8	101,0	92,7	103,3
Oil, shale bitumen, mln tonnes	1,3	148,6	176,3	140,7

Source: Rosstat