Russia’s natural gas output up 17% on year in January
 MOSCOW, Feb 2 (PRIME-TASS) -- Russia’s natural gas output rose 16.9% on the year to 63.952 billion cubic meters in January, TsDU-TEK, an agency which provides data and analysis to the Energy Ministry, said Tuesday.
Of the total, Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom produced 50.750 billion cubic meters of gas in the period, up 13.9% on the year, while the output of independent gas producer Novatek amounted to 3.492 billion cubic meters, up 22.4% on the year. The output of other independent gas producers was at 3.998 billion cubic meters, up 97.3% on the year, and the gas output of oil companies totaled 5.7 billion cubic meters, up 10.2% on the year, TsDU-TEK said.
In 2009, Russia’s natural gas output fell 12.5% on the year to 582.3 billion cubic meters, TsDU-TEK said earlier.
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