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Russia's oil and gas revenues increased by 16.9% year-on-year in January 2025, reaching 789.1 billion rubles ($8.6 billion), the Finance Ministry said last week.The rise was driven by higher extraction tax receipts despite a slight decline from December levels.The increase comes despitethe Biden administration tighteningsanctions on Russias oil and gas sector last monthahead of United States President Donald Trump taking office.Revenue from the mineral extraction tax (MET), a key component of oil and gas revenues, grew by 19.4% compared to January 2024, reaching 1.05 trillion rubles ($10.9 billion).
This included 840.4billion rubles ($8.7 billion) from oil, which marked a 17.4% gain y/y, and 143.8billion rubles ($1.4 billion) from natural gas, reflecting a 26.5% rise.
Gas condensate contributed 64.9 billion rubles ($677 million), growing 32.4% from the same period last year.Export duties amounted to 73.2 billion rubles ($763 million), growing by 6.9% compared with January 2024 but declining 12.1% from December.
This decrease was attributed to the final stage of Russias oil sector tax reform, which shifted the burden of export duties primarily onto gas shipments.
Gas export duties reached 72.6 billion rubles ($757 million), marking a 20.6% annual increase but a 10.3% decline from the previous month.The Russian government also made 156.4 billion rubles ($1.6 billion) in compensatory payments to oil companies in January under the fuel damper mechanism, a scheme designed to stabilize domestic fuel prices.
This was 6.7% higher than in January 2024 but 12.3% lower than in December.Base oil and gas revenues, which form the core of Russias fiscal planning, totaled 758.3 billion rubles ($7.9 billion) in January, compared with 731.2 billion rubles ($7.6 billion) in December.
Additional revenues, generated when market prices exceed the governments benchmark level, stood at 30.8 billion rubles ($321 million), down from 59.1billion rubles ($616 million) the previous month.Russia adjusted its fiscal rule in November 2023, when President Vladimir Putin signed a law setting the base oil price for budget calculations at $60 per barrel, with a 2% annual increase from 2027.
The previous framework had fixed base oil and gas revenues at 8trillion rubles per year, with a 4% annual adjustment from 2026.In 2024, total oil and gas revenues amounted to 11.13 trillion rubles ($116 billion), representing a 26.2% increase from the previous year.
Base revenues accounted for 9.83 trillion rubles ($103 billion), while additional revenues contributed 1.3 trillion rubles ($13.5 billion).
However, under Russias 2025-2027 budget plan, oil and gas revenues are projected to decline annually by 1.7% in 2025, 3.4% in 2026 and 7.6% in 2027, reaching 10.94 trillion rubles ($114 billion) in 2025, 10.56 trillion rubles ($110 billion) in 2026 and 9.77 trillion rubles ($102 billion) in 2027.The Finance Ministry also provided updated foreign exchange intervention figures, estimating that additional oil and gas revenues in February would amount to 101.2 billion rubles ($1 billion).
The shortfall in January, where actual oil and gas revenues fell 34.7billion rubles ($361 million) below expectations, resulted in 66.5billion rubles ($693 million) being allocated for foreign currency and gold purchases.
The ministry said these operations would take place between Feb.
7 and March 6, with daily purchases equivalent to 3.3 billion rubles ($34 million).This article first appeared in bne IntelliNews.





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