Rosneft continues to retain the leading position among global public companies in terms of liquid hydrocarbon production. Oil and condensate production in the second quarter of 2021 Against the background of a gradual mitigation of restrictions under the OPEC agreement, increased by 5.1 percent and reached 47.8 million tons. This follows from Rosneft reporting on the company’s production results for the second quarter and six months of 2021.
In the first half of the year, the production rate reached 93.3 million tons, which turned out more than similar indicators from Exxonmobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, Equinor, Petrobras, Eni, Totalenergies and other companies.
Rosneft gas production in the 2nd quarter increased by 7.3 percent compared with the previous quarter and amounted to 16.07 billion cubic meters. In January-June 2021, the volume of gas production amounted to 31.05 billion cubic meters, the advanced figure reached 171.5 million cubic meters per day, which turned out to be one of the best indicators among Russian independent gas producers.
The total mining of hydrocarbons in April-June increased by almost 6 percent amounted to 61.1 million tons of oil equivalent. At the same time, in the 1st half of the year, hydrocarbon production amounted to 118.9 million tons of oil equivalent, which is also one of the highest indicators in the world.
In the first half of the year, the total amount of seismic works 3D rose 45.5 percent and amounted to 4.9 thousand square kilometers. In the first six months of 2021, Rosneft increased the penetration in operational drilling by almost 6 percent – to 5.1 million meters. The number of newly commissioned wells “Rosneft” in January-June increased by 36 percent year by year and exceeded 1.5 thousand units.
Rosneft is the largest refineries of Russia, reporting is noted. The volume of oil refining by Russian plants amounted to 47.6 million tons in the first half of the year and 23.5 million tons in the second quarter.
Carrying out the repair work did not affect the stability of the supply of the domestic fuel in the domestic market, since the company increased the stocks of gasoline and diesel fuel in advance, and during the peak demand, the planning schedule was adjusted to the repair of the largest refineries in order to increase fuel sales in the domestic market.
Oil refining at factories in Germany in the second quarter rose by 27 percent (up to 2.9 million tons).
As a result, the cumulative volume of oil refining amounted to 52.7 million tons. In the second quarter, this figure amounted to 26.4 million tons. At the same time, the depth of processing increased by 1.4 percentage points of the quarter to the quarter and amounted to 76.2 percent.
Rosneft has the largest network of petrol stations in Russia, which has about 3 thousand gas stations / AZK. Rosneft retail business in the reporting period continued to show stable results of work. The volume of retail sales on its own gas stations Following the results of the first six months, fully recovered after the restrictive measures introduced in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, exceeding the indicator of the same period of 2020 by 12 percent.