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Oil companies to finance Nenets highway

The administration of the far northern Nenets Autonomous Okrug intends to make oil companies finance the projected road between Naryan-Mar and Usinsk, the only way connecting the region with the outside world.

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Regional Governor Igor Fyodorov says to RIA Novosti that he will request federal authorities to include the road construction as part of the license conditions in the Trebs and Titov field projects. As BarentsObserver reported, the two big oil fields will be offered in a tender this spring. Governor Fyodorov says the winner of the tenders should be obliged to finance the construction of the road. The construction of the 386 km long Naryan-Mar-Usinsk road was started in 1991 but then halted as funding dried out. A total of 83 km remains of the road.