Russia's natural gas exports grew 9.1 percent to 147.5bn cubic meters between January and October 2008 against the same period of the previous year, the Federal Customs Service reported today according to RBC. Similarly, Russia's revenue from gas exports jumped 69.2 percent to $55.02bn. Exports to countries outside the CIS rose 10.8 percent to 134.1bn cubic meters, whereas exports to the CIS shrank 5.6 percent to $13.4bn cubic meters.
As reported earlier, Russia's gas production increased 1.4 percent to 540bn cubic meters, according to the data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).