OREANDA-NEWS. June 15, 2012. Surgutneftegas produced around 25,402.7 thousand tons of oil during five months of this year. Compared to the same period of 2011, added crude output increase equaled to 1.4%. In particular, crude production in the new region of the Company’s operations namely at the Talakonskoye, Alinskoye, Severo-Talakanskoye fields in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) amounted in January-May 2012 to 2,589.5 thousand tons.

Since the beginning of this year, the Company has produced around 5,077 mn cub m of gas. Moreover, overall gas utilization rate across the Company as a whole exceeded 95% with 99% utilization rate demonstrated at the fields of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

In-house drilling within five months of the current year amounted to 1,963.7 thousand m of rock including exploratory drilling exceeding 92.7 thousand m. Compared to January-May of the previous year, development and exploratory drilling grew by 5.6% and 13.6%, respectively.