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KHABAROVSK BRIDGE BUILDERS COMPLETE ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL MILESTONE

Khabarovsk, December 3, 2003. -- Khabarovsk-based bridge construction company OAO Dalmostostroi, announced today completion of the Chayvo bridge construction project in the north east of Sakhalin Island. This facility was constructed under the contract awarded in August 2002 by the Sakhalin-1 Project.

The contract scope of work included obtaining all necessary permits and concurrences, as well as performing engineering design, procurement of materials and construction. The 830-meter-long bridge, the longest in Sakhalin, connected the Chayvo wellsite to the onshore production facilities. Initially the bridge will be used to transport the heavy (600 MT) production equipment and once production begins, it will be used daily to transport people and supplies to the wellsite of the largest investment project in Russia.

Since its foundation almost 35 years ago, OAO Dalmostostroi has built more than 850 bridges with total length in excess of 85 km, including first phase of 4 km long bridge across the Amur river, a 1100 m long bridge across the Zeysk water reservoir and multiple other bridge and construction projects on the Baikal-Amur railway, in Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

According to V. Lisovy, General Director of OAO Dalmostostroi, "The successful completion of the new facility once again confirmed high professional level of the Khabarovsk company in cooperation with engineers and manufacturers from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and other Russian cities."

According to Larry Smith, ENL Vice-president, "The timely completion of such complex and important project facility most convincingly demonstrates the effectiveness of our strategy to maximize Russian content in the project."

Additional information can be obtained from OAO Dalmostostroi, contact: Yuri Karlin, (4212) 34-35-09, or from ENL, contact Michael Allen, (4242) 66-88-12.