MOSCOW, October 11 (RIA Novosti) - Rosneft [RTS: ROSN] increased its crude production by 8.4% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2006, to 59.4 million tons, Russia's state-controlled oil producer said Wednesday.
The company said natural gas output in the reporting period climbed 7.2% year-on-year, to 10.1 billion cubic meters.
The oil company announced earlier it will float futures on the RTS in mid-October.
Rosneft held an initial public offering this summer in Moscow and London, the biggest in Russia's corporate history and the world's fifth largest, raising $10.4 billion.
