6 Dec 2016 14:50

Auction on Erginskoye oil field won't be announced in 2016 - Donskoi

MOSCOW. Dec 6 (Interfax) - The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry will not announce the auction on rights to the Erginskoye oil field in Khanty-Mansii autonomous district in 2016.

"We won't announce it before the end [of the year]. Everything will take place next year," Sergei Donskoi, the natural resources minister said.

In that regard, the government instruction on holding the auction to the field will be amended, Donskoi said.