OREANDA-NEWS. The Oil and Gas Production Boards of OAO TATNEFT produced 2,194,789 tons of crude oil in January which accounted for 101.5% versus the month of January in 2006 with the above-the-plan production amounting to 30.2 thousand tons (101.4%).

The best results were achieved by NGDUs (Oil and Gas Production Boards) Elkhovneft, Yamashneft and Almetyevneft. The amount of 2,120,240 tons of crude oil was delivered by the first quality group. The volume of 516,664 tons of crude oil was produced from the licensed areas of independent oil producing companies accounting for 107% versus January of the previous year.

The ultimate production of the oil companies in the Republic amounted to 2,711,453 tons of crude oil accounting for an excess of 2.5% versus January 2006. The share of the independent oil producing companies amounted to 19%.