Oil production n Russia up 0.5% in Q1, gas output - up 0.4%

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Oil production n Russia up 0.5% in Q1, gas output - up 0.4% - Rosstat

MOSCOW. April 18 (Interfax) - Total oil and gas condensate production in Russia went up by 0.8% year-on-year to 125 million tonnes in January-March 2011, Russia's Federal State Statistics Agency (Rosstat) said.

Production of natural gas, including associated gas, went up by 0.4% to 182 billion cubic meters in the first quarter.

Initial refining of oil in January-March went up by 2.7% to 62.5 million tonnes.

According to Rosstat, total production of automobile gasoline in Russia went up by 0.6% year-on-year to 8.9 million tonnes and diesel fuel - 2.4% to 17.8 million tonnes. Russian refineries produced 18.1 million tonnes of heating fuel, up 3.1% year-on-year and 700,000 tonnes of lubricants - up 7.1%.