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Yamal gas output down 23%

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The 2009 forecast was an increase of 3% from last year, but so far the output is down.

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Interfax quoted the Yamal distric’s natural resources regulation department saying the gas output from January to August this year decreased by 23% year-on-year. So far this year the gas output from the Arctic peninsula is near 300 billion cubic meters.