Russian gas giant Gazprom on Wednesday said its net profit for the first half of 2011 had jumped 56 percent to over $25 billion, helped by higher energy prices and volumes of gas sold.
Russia?s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) and CEO of Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, push a button to launch a natural gas pipeline Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok in the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok on September 8, 2011. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI POOL/ ALEXEY DRUZHININ
The bumper results carried on Gazprom's strong performance from 2010 and the start of this year when it posted some of the biggest profits in corporate history.
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