KIEV, Sept. 29 - UkrNafta, Ukraine's largest crude oil producer, plans to boost crude oil and gas condensate extraction 2.5% to 3.1 million tons in 2005, up from 3.02 million tons produced in 2004, the company's press service said Thursday.

"The figure may be even bigger than that," UkrNafta chief geologist Volodymyr Prokopiv was quoted by the press service as saying.