Russ Oil-Gas

MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) - Gazprom plans to export over 163 billion cubic meters of natural gas worth an estimated $64 billion to non-CIS countries this year, the Russian gas monopoly said on Wednesday. The average export price is expected to stand at $401 per 1,000 cu m. The company delivered 150.5 billion cu m of gas to central and western Europe in 2007, a 0.4% decline on the previous year due to the warm winter. However, sales revenue increased 5% to a record $39.5 billion last year, with the average export price at $272.8 per 1,000 cu m. In 2007, natural gas accounted for 13% of income from Russian exports.