MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The volume of oil production in Russia is expected to surpass the 2014 figure by 0.8 percent in 2015, the federal budget documents released on the official website of Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, reveal.
The Russian government expects oil production to reach about 531 million tonnes (metric tons) in 2015, while gas production is predicted to reach 626 billion cubic meters at the end of the year.
In 2016, oil export is predicted to surpass 233 million tonnes, while gas export is expected to reach 175 billion cubic meters.
Russia’s federal budget is expected to increase by 195 billion roubles ($3.1 billion at the current exchange rate) in 2016 from maintaining the current rate of export duty on crude oil at 42 percent (as compared to an earlier plan of decreasing it to 36 percent).