OREANDA-NEWS. On December 24th Gazprom Neft JSC has fulfilled the plan of the oil production for the year 2006 when cumulative oil recovery reached the coefficient of 32,014 mln tons. At the year-end Gazprom Neft is going to produce 32,725 mln tons (discounting the share in NGK Slavneft JSC), a 2,22 per cent increase of the business-plan.

This result was reached by the raising of production capacity of the basic oil fields due to the implementation of new technologies and by the development of 5 new oil fields.

From the beginning of 2007 Gazprom Neft will yearly increase the production capacity approaching the strategic coefficient of 80 million tons of oil per year.