Oil production in Tomsk region up 7.8% in 9 mths
TOMSK. Oct 18 (Interfax) - Enterprises in the Tomsk region produced 8.4717 million tonnes of oil in January-September 2011, the deputy head of the region's department for subsoil use and oil and gas production, Nikolai Ilin, told Interfax.
Oil production in the same period of 2010 came to 7.8597 million tonnes. Therefore, oil production increased by 7.8% year-on-year in the first nine months of this year.
Ilin said that oil production the first nine months accounted for 72% of the annual plan for the region.
The main producer in the region remains OJSC Tomskneft VNK, accounting for 5.4031 million tonnes of oil in the period (up 0.8% year-on-year), followed by Gazpromneft-Vostok - 802.4 million tonnes (7.3%), LLC Imperial Energy - 604,900 tonnes (8.6%), OJSC Tomskgazprom - 566,200 tonnes (up 27.7%) and OJSC Russneft - 489,100 tonnes (up 150%).
Ilin said that gas production in the Tomsk region in January-September came to 3.197 billion cubic meters. Gas condensate output in the period reached 329,000 tonnes.
"Production of gas and gas condensate in the recent years remains around the same level since the same companies are engaged in production. No new fields are being commissioned for development," Ilin said.
