Russian Oil Industry

An Introduction to Russian Oil Industry

The Russian Oil Industry is undergoing a major change in its production. It was seen that in spite of having a great amount of storage in the country, the production rate was not up to the mark. The present situation has changed dramatically and the Russian Oil Industry is experiencing a great time in terms of oil production. The statistics show that the production is on a high and this has made Russia the number one Oil producer and the Russian Oil Industry has regained its position after more than 25 years by overtaking Saudi-Arab.

The world wide demand for the crude oil has opened the window for the Russian Oil Industry to get itself back to business. Most of the oil companies are going through profitable times and this is also helping the economy of the country in a great way.

The Russian Oil Industry was also helped immensely by the devaluation of rouble in the year 1998 which saw the cost of the products fall by nearly 75 percent in terms of dollars. In other way , the Russian Oil Industry was also boosted by the massive investments made by the people of Russia in expectation of more profit. This has helped the Russian Oil Industry to buy new and improved machineries and implant newer technologies which has also increased the production.

The Russian Oil Industry went through a very rough patch during the 1990s when the Russian Economy was hit by economic depression and the daily oil production decreased from nine billion barrel to six million barrel. According to the experts the problem was not in the lack of demand for the oil but also in the lack of psychology as well as most of the Russian Oil companies were not feeling interest in producing oil.

With the improvement of the machineries and technologies the Russian Oil industry is successfully cutting the cost factor and thus is achieving much more profit than what it used to get and with the growing production level the Russian Oil industry is becoming less sensitive.