250 oil and gas fields were discovered in Russia in the last five years

Over the last five years, 250 oil and gas fields were discovered in Russia, the Natural Resources Minister, Sergei Donskoi reported at the Cabinet meeting today.

According to Sergey Donskoy, it is provide to increase the main types of minerals: more than 6 billion tons of oil, 12.6 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, more than 7 billion tons of coal and about 100 tons of uranium by 2030l this will enable to reach 100% compensation of the main types of extracted minerals with reserves.

In 2013, the state funding was 32.1 billion rubles, and money from non-budgetary sources - about 240 billion rubles. "This corresponds to the global trend of increasing spending of subsoil users on geology, and without a doubt, "covers" our current needs, - Sergey Donskoy explains. - But it should be borne in mind that our subsoil users investments are a much smaller share of revenue from fields development into reserves replenishment, than their foreign and transnational counterparts".