Russia produces record volumes of oil, gas in 2018
Russia produced record volumes of oil and gas in 2018, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said. He told Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting that last year Russia’s crude oil output rose by 1.6 percent, or 10 million tons from 2017 to 556 million tons, according to a Kremlin transcript of minutes of the meeting. The increase was attributed to the operation of 54 new oil fields, including several major ones in the Krasnoyarsk region and the Yamalo-Nenets region. Last year’s natural gas output hit a record in 18 years ...
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