Gas and oil production

  • Production of coalbed methane
  • In 2023, Gazprom (excluding the entities investments wherein are classified as joint operations) produced:

    • 355.23 billion cubic meters of natural and associated gas;
    • 72.38 million tons of oil and gas condensate.
    Exploration and production of hydrocarbons in Russia
    Exploration and production of hydrocarbons in Russia

    Exploration and production of hydrocarbons in Russia

    Gas production strategy

    Gazprom pursues the strategy of producing gas in the volumes adjusted by demand.

    The Company's strategic gas production regions for the long term include the Yamal Peninsula, Eastern Siberia, the Far East, and the Russian continental shelf.

    When bringing promising fields into production, Gazprom aims to ensure economic efficiency by expanding gas production facilities concurrently with gas transmission, comprehensive processing and storage capacities.

    Kovyktinskoye gas and condensate field in Irkutsk Region
    Kovyktinskoye gas and condensate field in Irkutsk Region

    Kovyktinskoye gas and condensate field in Irkutsk Region

    Oil production strategy

    Oil business development is among Gazprom's strategic goals. Gazprom Neft accounts for the bulk of the Gazprom Group's oil production.

    The key objective of Gazprom Neft in the period up to 2030 is to evolve into a next-generation company serving as a model of efficiency, technological effectiveness and safety for other oil companies of the world.

    Oil loading from Prirazlomnaya offshore ice-resistant platform to Mikhail Ulyanov oil tanker
    Oil loading from Prirazlomnaya offshore ice-resistant platform to Mikhail Ulyanov oil tanker

    Oil loading from Prirazlomnaya offshore ice-resistant platform to Mikhail Ulyanov oil tanker

    In order to attain these goals, Gazprom Neft will strive for maximum cost-efficiency in the extraction of the remaining reserves from the current resource base by employing best optimization practices, reducing the cost of proven technologies, and introducing and adopting new technologies on a mass scale.

    Messoyakhskoye field
    Messoyakhskoye field

    Messoyakhskoye field

    Gazprom Group's production capacities in Russia

    As of December 31, 2023, the Gazprom Group was developing 151 hydrocarbon fields in Russia. The Nadym-Pur-Taz oil- and gas-bearing region in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area remains the main gas production center for Gazprom. The Group develops its oil deposits primarily in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Yugra, as well as in the Tomsk, Omsk, Orenburg and Irkutsk Regions and in the Pechora Sea.

    Yuzhno-Russkoye oil, gas and condensate field
    Yuzhno-Russkoye oil, gas and condensate field

    Yuzhno-Russkoye oil, gas and condensate field

    Hydrocarbon production capacities of Gazprom Group within Russia as of December 31, 2023

     

    2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
    Number of fields under development 144 147 147 151 151
    Number of gas producing wells in operation 7,438 7,494 7,534 7,447 7,717
    Number of oil producing wells in operation 7,752 8,519 8,873 10,146 10,411

    Gas, oil and condensate production indicators

    In 2023, the Gazprom Group (excluding the entities investments wherein are classified as joint operations) produced 355.23 billion cubic meters of natural and associated gas.

    Gas production by Gazprom Group (excluding entities investments wherein are classified as joint operations), billion cubic meters

    Gas production by Gazprom Group (excluding entities investments wherein are classified as joint operations), billion cubic meters

    In the same year, Gazprom (excluding the entities investments wherein are classified as joint operations) produced 72.38 million tons of oil and gas condensate.

    Taking into account the Group’s share in production operations by the entities investments wherein are classified as joint operations (3.72 billion cubic meters of natural and associated gas), the overall hydrocarbon output amounted to 358.95 billion cubic meters of natural and associated gas, 72.38 million tons of oil and gas condensate.