OREANDA-NEWS. On 28 May 2009 was announced, that LUKOIL Group total hydrocarbon production available for sale reached 2,225 th. boe per day in the first quarter of 2009, which is a 1.5% increase y-o-y. Crude oil production by LUKOIL Group increased by 3.2% y-o-y to 1,976 th. barrels per day.

Crude oil production of LUKOIL Group in the first quarter of 2009 totalled 24.13 mln tons. At the same time, crude oil output from the Yuzhnaya Khylchuya field reached 1.5 mln tons. Natural and petroleum gas output of LUKOIL Group available for sale was 3.81 bcm: output as part of international projects totalled 1.22 bcm (grew by 34.2% y-o-y), output in Russia was down 23.4% y-o-y to 2.59 bcm. The decrease in gas output available for sale in Russia was due to the decrease in purchases of gas by Gazprom.

Throughputs at the Company’s refineries (including its share in throughput at ISAB refining complex) increased by 7.3% y-o-y in the first quarter of 2009 and reached 14.28 mln tons. Throughputs at the Company’s refineries in Russia decreased by 1.5% y-o-y, throughputs at the Company’s international refineries grew by 50.6% y-o-y.