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Russia's oil production hits record 10.7m bpd

MOSCOW, May 3, 2015

Russian oil and gas condensate production, among the world's largest, remained at a post-Soviet record level of 10.71 million barrels per day (bpd) in April, underpinned by a recent recovery in oil prices, Energy Ministry data showed.

Global oil prices jumped 21 per cent in April to over $66 a barrel due to slowing drilling activity and increasing political tensions in the Middle East, having collapsed from a peak of $115 per barrel in June last year, reported the Gulf Daily News, our sister publication.

The price slump has significantly hurt the Russian economy, which relies on oil and natural gas for around half the federal budget revenues. Russia's GDP contracted by 3.4 per cent in March year on year.

Russian production of oil and gas condensate, a type of ultra-light oil, stood at 43.830m tonnes in April.

A Russian Energy Ministry delegation will fly to Vienna next month to meet Opec officials.

Russia, which is not an Opec member, has So far failed to persuade it to cut oil output in order to prop up prices.

Last month, Opec oil supply jumped to its highest in more than two years, boosted by record or near-record supplies from Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Rosneft, Russia's leading oil producer, cut its oil production by 0.1 per cent in April to 3.81m barrels per day.

Total Russian oil exports via pipeline monopoly Transneft edged up by 0.7 per cent to 4.4m barrels per day, or 18.021m tonnes in April.

Russia is aiming to increase its crude oil exports in the coming years and the Energy Ministry expects exports to be 3m tonnes higher this year.

Natural gas output was 52.64 billion cubic metres (bcm), or 1.75 bcm per day, down from 1.78 bcm per day in March.

The Energy Ministry did not publish gas output data for Gazprom, the world's top natural gas producer. – TradeArabia News Service




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