MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lender Sberbank said on Thursday that it and Gazprombank had agreed to provide project financing worth 100 billion rubles ($1.7 billion) to the Vostochno-Messoyakhskoye oil project.
The oil project is operated by Russian oil majors Rosneft and Gazprom Neft.
Sberbank said in a statement it would provide 60 billion rubles, and that Gazprombank would cover the remainder of the 10-year financing project.
Reporting by Oksana Kobzeva; Writing by Denis Pinchuk and Polina Devitt; Editing by Andrew Osborn
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