The Deputy Energy Minister Nikolai Podguzov was also quoted as saying that a project to produce liquefied natural gas, Yamal LNG, may get state support of 150 billion roubles in the first quarter.

Yamal LNG shareholders and Russia's Novatek, France's Total and China's CNPC.

(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin, editing by David Evans)

Stocks treated in this article : TOTAL, Rosneft' NK OAO, NOVATEK OAO