OREANDA-NEWS. The volume of crude oil produced by Tatneft during the period of 9 months of 2006 exceeded 19.1 million tons. Application of the up-to-date crude oil recovery enhancement methods accounted for 45% of the total volume of the crude oil produced.

Drilling enterprises of the Company penetrated 614 thousand meters of rock with 67% of the meterage drilled for OAO TATNEFT. 257 new producing wells were put on production. The revenues from selling the shipped production of OAO TATNEFT amounted to 140 billion rubles.

The Company's financial and business activity resulted in earning over 45 billion rubles of balance sheet profit accounting for 14% increase versus a similar period of the year 2005.