Ruler: Russian oil reserves grow by 730 mln tns, gas by 1 tln cm ‘15

MOSCOW, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Recoverable oil reserves in Russia rose by 730 million tonnes and gas reserves by 1.095 trillion cubic meters in 2015, according to documents of the state committee for natural resource reserves published on Thursday.

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Sergei Donskoi said earlier that recoverable oil reserves increased by 710 million tonnes and gas reserves by 900 billion cubic meters in 2015, under preliminary estimates.

Oil output grew 1.4% to 534.081 million tonnes and gas output fell 1% to 635.349 billion cubic meters last year, CDU TEK, an agency that provides data and analysis to the Energy Ministry said earlier.

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