TNK-BP PULLS RUSSIA'S JAN OIL OUTPUT DOWN

"Crude output at TNK-BP, Russia's third-largest oil producer, fell 0.5 percent last month following a production decline at its much-depleted West Siberian fields, including Samotlor - once a pride of Soviet oil industry and one of the world's only six super-giant oil fields with peak production of more than 1 million bpd in the 1970s and 1980s. Last month Samotlor's production declined more than 1 percent to 332,782 bpd ... Oil is getting harder to find and more expensive to extract, which is hitting oil companies' profits despite high crude prices."

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