Russia’s Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has signed a decree to conclude concession agreement for the financing, construction and operation of Northern Latitudinal Railway (NLR), linking Obskaya to Nadym.
According to the decree, the concession agreement with NLR OOO (Northern Latitudinal Railway) includes the construction of infrastructure and needed facilities on Obskaya – Salekhard – Nadym route. Under the concession agreement, SPC Concessionaire, a special project company, will be responsible for the financing, construction and operation of the line. The concession agreement will be signed no later than September 8, 2018.
The project envisages the construction of a 353-km railway line, and bridges across the Ob and Nadym rivers, which will be completed by 2023.
The projected transport volume is almost 24 million tonnes, mainly gas condensate and oil cargo.
Within the project, Russian Railways will be responsible for the reconstruction of Konosh – Kotlas – Chum – Labytnangi section on the NLR, including the Ob station and the Pangody – Novy Urengoy – Korotchaevo railway line, of RZD’s subsidiary, Sverdlovsk Railway.
Gazprom will be responsible for the reconstruction and technological enhancement of the 112-km Nadym – Pangody rail section.
This spring, Russian Railways announced that construction works on the Northern Latitudinal Railway are scheduled to be launched in 2019. Last year, Russian Railways and Gazprom signed the agreement on the joint implementation of the project.
The NLR will serve as a transport artery linking Gazprom’s fields in the Yamal Peninsula and the Nadym-Pur-Taz region to the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area’s largest cities (Nadym, Salekhard, and Novy Urengoy) and the under-construction Novy Urengoy Gas Chemical Complex. The rail line will remove infrastructure limitations by forging transport links between Yamal and European Russia’s industrial facilities and ports.
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