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The report, which cited Energy Ministry data, showed April’s figure was the highest monthly average output since January 2019, when it was 11.38 million bpd. Reuters uses the barrels/tonnes ratio of 7.33.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia and other allied producers, a group known as OPEC+, agreed last month to cut their combined oil output by about almost 10 million bpd, or 10% of global supply in May and June to tackle the economic fallout from the new coronavirus.
The United States, Norway, Canada and Brazil may add cuts that would bring the total reduction to 20 million bpd, or 20% of global supply, although the coronavirus crisis has driven down demand by as much as 30%, driving down prices.
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Russia is expected to cut its oil production by 2.5 million bpd from a baseline of 11 million bpd in May and June.
This number exempts production of gas condensate, or light oil. Russian energy ministry does not disclose gas condensate production separately.
Tatneft’s reduction
Russia’s mid-sized oil producer Tatneft said on Saturday it produced 1.994 million tonnes of oil in April, down from 2.442 million tonnes in March.
The reduction amounted to around 90,000 bpd, or 16% from March. It did not say why it reduced output last month. Tatneft cut output because storage capacity is full and European demand is weak, according to sources and data seen by Reuters last week.
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The company operates in Tatarstan in central Russia which became the country’s main oil province in the 1970s with output of two million bpd, helping the Soviet Union fund its arms race with the United States.
Russia has pledged to meet its commitments in full with output projected to fall to between 480 million and 500 million tonnes, or 9.6 million to 10 million bpd, this year - its first annual decline since 2008.
Natural gas production in April reached 55.14 billion cubic metres, a decline of 14.3% from the same month a year earlier, the Interfax news agency also reported. It also said Russian oil exports increased 2.2% year on year to 83.79 million tonnes in the January-April period.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 3rd, 2020.
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