Gazprom Promises to Maintain Dividends

Russian gas giant Gazprom will pay a dividend of 7.2 roubles per share for last year, keeping them at the same level as in 2014, TASS news agency quoted Gazprom's chairman Viktor Zubkov as saying on Saturday.

Gazprom said last week that its net profit under Russian Accounting Standards (RAS) more than doubled in 2015 to 403.5 billion roubles ($6 billion), from 189 billion roubles in 2014.

Gazprom plans to stick to its production forecast for 2016, while increasing its exports this year, Russian news agencies quoted Zubkov as saying on Saturday.

($1 = 67.1293 roubles) (Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Catherine Evans)