TOMSK, Jan 11 – RIA Tomsk. According to the preliminary data, oil production will grow by 0,5% in Tomsk region in 2016, gas production will decrease by 2%, the acting deputy governor of Tomsk region on industrial policy Nikolay Glebovich reported.
He told that the level of oil production remained at the level of the last year – 10,8 million tons in 2015, and the volume of the extracted gas exceeded the last year's indicator for 7% and made about 5,4 billion cubic meters.
"According to the preliminary data, oil production volumes will exceed the last year's indicator for 0,5% in 2016, having reached a point 10,86 million tons, gas production will decrease by 2% – to the level of 5,3 billion cubic meters, the level of production of condensate will decrease by 1% – to 0,36 million tons", – Glebovich noted.
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According to him, about 7% (about 800 thousand tons) of the oil extracted in 2016 will be hardly removable stocks. " as JSC Gazpromneft East, JSC Stimul-T, JSC Nord-Imperial, JSC Matyushkinskaya vertikal work with hardly removable stocks now, according to own programs of studying," – he specified.
"To consolidate the result at the set level, for stabilization and accumulation of volumes of production in 2016 the companies relied on increase in volumes of development drilling, carrying out geological and technical actions, broad application of modern technologies and input of new fields", – the deputy governor added.
By estimates of the regional administration, the share of oil and gas branch makes nearly a quarter in the tax income of the region now and provides about 30% of the gross regional product.