Russia produced an average of 9.83 million barrels a day of crude oil and condensate in September, the news agency Interfax reported Thursday, citing Ministry of Industry and Energy statistics.
That is up 0.1% on the month. In year-on-year terms, output fell 0.4%, a smaller fall than the 0.8% fall in August.
Interfax cited data from the TsDU-TEK department of the Industry and Energy Ministry as saying that the country produced 40.25 million metric tons of oil in the month.
Russia's overall oil output in 2007 totaled 491.48 million tons, averaging 9.87 barrels a day.