01-06-04
The USA has offered technological assistance in preparing a project of
constructing an oil pipeline to Indiga on the Barents Sea shore (the northeast
of the Nenets Autonomous Area). At the same time he noted that no concrete agreement has been achieved with
the USA on this project. Currently the USA is offering $ 1 mm to Transneft to
pay Ernst & Young for surveying the US market to prepare a feasibility study
of constructing the oil pipeline, the head of Transneft added.
Source: RosBusinessConsultingRussia and USA negotiate pipeline construction
Transneft President Semyon Vainshtok made a corresponding statement. According
to him, the issue of laying the pipeline was considered at his meeting with US
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham.
"The USA has offered its technological assistance, in particular we can get
some technical information about a pipeline to Alaska," Vainshtok said.
"This is not a sum that can influence a decision making process; we are
discussing the allocation of a large grant by the USA," he stressed.
According to Vainshtok, the cost of preparations of a feasibility study of the
project on laying an oil pipeline to Indiga exceeds $ 100 mm.