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MOSCOW, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Oil production in Russia increasedby almost 0.9 percent month-on-month in September to 10.61barrels per day (bpd) largely because of increased output atjoint ventures with foreign majors, Energy Ministry data showedon Thursday.
In tonnes, Russian oil output reached 43.411 million inSeptember versus 44.472 million in August, a month which has onemore day than September.
Oil output under production sharing agreements (PSA),designed in the 1990s to encourage investment by foreign oilcompanies, jumped by 24 percent in September to almost 1.23million tonnes (298,844 bpd).
The ministry does not provide a breakdown of the data forthe projects, which include Sakhalin-1 of Rosneft, ExxonMobil, ONGC and Sodeco; Sakhalin-2 involving Gazprom, Shell, Mitsui, and Mitsubishi ; andKharyaga with Total, Statoil andZarubezhneft.
Small firms, which the ministry defines as "otherproducers", increased their oil production by 1.5 percent, whileoutput at Rosneft, the world's top publicly traded oilcompany, remained flat, at 3.8 million bpd.
Russian daily gas output rose to 1.47 billion cubic metres(bcm) per day last month from 1.38 bcm in August.
Natural gas production at Gazprom, the world's largest gasproducer, jumped 14 percent from August to 968 million cubicmetres a day on an increase in seasonal demand. (Reporting by Lidia Kelly and Vladimir Soldatkin, editing byElizabeth Piper)