BAKU, July 3, 2008 (AFP) - The chief executive of Russian energy giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, said on Thursday that the country's oil production would remain unchanged in the next few years.

'We expect to produce the same volume of oil this year as we did last year,' Miller, told journalists on the sidelines of a visit to energy-rich Azerbaijan by President Dmitry Medvedev, referring to Russian oil production as a whole.

'In the next few years, we expect that the volume will remain at the same level,' he said.