OAO Novatek reported preliminary operating results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2013. In the fourth quarter 2013, the company's gross production totaled 16.42 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas and 1,249,000 tons of liquids (gas condensate and crude oil).

The company's full year 2013 gross production aggregated 62.22 bcm of natural gas and 4,774,000 tons of liquids, resulting in an increase in natural gas production by 4.90 bcm, or by 8.5% as compared with 2012, and an increase in combined liquids production by 487,000 tons, or by 11.4%. In 2013, NOVATEK processed 4,862,000 tons of unstable de-ethanized gas condensate at the Purovsky Processing Plant, of which 1,311,000 tons was processed in the fourth quarter. The volumes of liquids processed at the Purovsky Processing Plant increased by 20.5% in 2013 as compared with 2012.