OREANDA-NEWS. October 23, 2012. In September 2012 Surgutneftegas launched the fourth oilfield in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) – the Vostochno-Alinskoye field.

For the year to date, crude output in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) exceeded 4,840.6 thousand tons.

Over the last nine months of 2012, Surgutneftegas produced totally 45,928.7 thousand tons of crude oil, which means a 1.1% increase in comparison to the same period of 2011.

In the period from January to September 2012, gas production exceeded 9,093 million cubic meters.

In-house drilling within nine months of the current year went beyond 3,686 thousand meters of rock including exploratory drilling reaching 153.8 thousand meters. Compared to January-September of the previous year, development and exploratory drilling grew by 4.4% and 9%, respectively.