Oil and gas companies made their statements concerning the plans for raw materials production in 2010. All the companies, except Surgutneftegas, are planning to increase the volumes.

Both largest gas companies Gazprom and NOVATEK plan to increase their production significantly. The raw-material base of Gazprom allowed to make bolder predictions. But due to the decrease of the industrial production rates and as consequence falling of the demand for gas on internal and foreign gas markets, Gazprom plans to produce about 519,3 billion cubic meters.
NOVATEK plans to increase production with the installation of additional extracting facilities for 7 billion cubic meters of gas by the end of 2010.

Among the petroleum companies Bashneft has the most ambitious plans on increasing the production. The company is going to implement its plans by increasing the number of geological and technical activities. Also one of the major strategic steps of the company is to raise the production rate on new oilfields and to stop the falling of the production on exhausted deposits. At the moment Bashneft develops more than 160 deposits, the major part of them are at the final stage of developing.

Gazprom Neft plans to increase production in 2010 and to return the test boring volumes of pre-crisis level of 2008. Investigation will probably be carried out mostly in traditional regions of their work - near Noyabrsk and Muravleno. This will allow the company to reduce the decrease of production in Western Siberia. Also in 2010 the first oilfields of Gazprom (Novoportovskoye where the production has not yet started and Orenburgskoye where the current production volume is about a half-million tons) will officially be given to Gazprom Neft. So probably the indicator of the production growth will go higher. In new regions, it is planned to drill 9 test bores in Messoyahskaya group of deposits that belongs to Slavneft (belongs to Gazprom Neft and TNK-BP) and to re-open old boreholes in the Novportovskoye deposit in 2010.
As for the Eastern Siberia it is not clear yet because of the absence of necessary infrastructure there and uncertainty with a geological estimation of deposits.

Tatneft intends to produce 4.2 % more than last year by the application of high technologies, namely by introduction of the system of extraction from several layers of one borehole. In 2010 it is planned to launch 170 facilities of simultaneously-separate operation (SSO) and simultaneously-separate pumping (SSP) and introduce the SSP technology on 93 force boreholes. By the beginning of 2010 564 boreholes were equipped with these facilities. Besides, SSP technology is launched on 135 force boreholes.

Rosneft also intends to increase oil and a gas condensate production in 2010. Besides, the company plans to increase the volumes of oil refining and the production of oil products. In 2010 it is planned to equip the Vankorskoye deposit and to expand the capacities of the Tuapse refinery, to reconstruct of refineries and to develop the enterprises of oil supply.

In 2010 TNK-BP plans to increase production by developing the Verhnechonskoye deposit of Uvatskaya group, and Yamal. TNK-BP is going to invest about $1.7 billion into the Vernechonskoye deposit in Eastern Siberia and into the Uvatskaya group in Western Siberia within three years, and another $180 million into the development of the joint project NNK in Venezuela (the deposit "Junin-6").

In 2010 Lukoil does not plan to increase significantly the production of hydrocarbons. The growth in volume up to 9.3 million tons is expected on the territory of Komi, and the gas volumes will probably grow for 550 million cubic meters. These plans are fixed in the protocol of the cooperation agreement between the government of the republic and the company.
The company also has many new foreign projects. Western Kurna-2 (Iraq), works on the oceanic shelf of Republic Ghana, on the structure Western Aral in Ustjurtsky region of Uzbekistan within the framework of the project "Aral" are among them. Also five perspective structures besides Western Aral were discovered on sea, overland and transit sites of basin of Aral Sea. These are Umid, Ak-Tepe, Kinderli and Shagala. The drilling of estimating boreholes of the “Block A” project began in Saudi Arabia. The first estimating borehole is now drilled in the structure of Tuhman in the deserts Rub al-Hali (Eastern province). WEEM Extension is the new project in Egypt.

Surgutneftegas is the only company that pointed out the possible decrease in volumes of oil production. In 2010 the company plans to launch four new deposits. The high level of utilization of associated oil gas will also remain (more than 96 per cent), a gas production volume in 2010 will make 13,4 billion cubic meters, recycling volume – 7 billion cubic meters. As for the oil refining, Surgutneftegas plans to build a complex for the deep oil refining that should increase the volumes of light oil products with the better qualitative characteristics.