OREANDA-NEWS. November 30, 2009. LUKOIL Group total hydrocarbon production available for sale reached 2,214 th. boe per day in nine months of 2009, which is a 1.1% increase y-o-y. Crude oil production by LUKOIL Group increased by 3.3% y-o-y to 1,978 th. barrels per day.

Crude oil production of LUKOIL Group in nine months of 2009 totalled 73.28 mln tons. At the same time, crude oil output from the Yuzhnaya Khylchuya field in Timan-Pechora, brought into production in the third quarter of 2008, reached 5.1 mln tons. Natural and petroleum gas output of LUKOIL Group available for sale was 10.94 bcm: output as part of international projects totalled 3.40 bcm (grew by 15.1% y-o-y), output in Russia was down 23.3% y-o-y to 7.54 bcm.

Throughputs at the Company’s refineries (including its share in throughput at the ISAB and TRN refining complexes) increased by 10.9% y-o-y in nine months of 2009 and reached 46.55 mln tons. Throughputs at the Company’s refineries in Russia increased by 0.9% y-o-y, throughputs at the Company’s international refineries grew by 49.1% y-o-y.