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Rosstat’s data shows that the country’s LNG terminals produced 18.7 million mt in the first seven months of this year.
In July, LNG production reached 2.2 million mt, the same as in July 2024, according to the data.
Julay LNG production decreased compared to 2.3 million mt in June.
In 2024, Russian LNG export plants produced about 34.7 million mt, Rosstat’s data previously showed.
This is up by 5.4 percent compared to 32.9 million mt in 2023.
Russia currently produces LNG via Novatek and Gazprom-operated LNG terminals.
Gazprom operates the Sakhalin-2 LNG terminal with a capacity of 10.8 mtpa and the mid-scale Portovaya LNG complex in the Leningrad region with a capacity of about 1.5 mtpa.
Besides these facilities, Novatek operates the 17.4 mtpa Yamal LNG plant in Sabetta.
Novatek also operates the mid-scale LNG plant in Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Vysotsk with a capacity of more than 660,000 tons of LNG per year.
Earlier this year, the US sanctioned Gazprom SPG Portovaya, the Russia-based operator of the Portovaya LNG terminal, and Cryogas Vyostsk, the Russia-based operator of the Cryogas Vysotsk LNG terminal.
In addition, Novatek operates the Arctic LNG-2 export plant, which was first hit by US and EU sanctions.
In August 2024, Novatek delivered the second gravity-based structure platform from its yard near Murmansk to the site of the Arctic LNG 2 project located on the Gydan peninsula.
The company completed the second GBS despite sanctions by the US and the EU related to the Arctic LNG 2 project and LNG carriers.
Arctic LNG 2 shipments
According to several reports, Novatek started producing LNG at the second unit earlier this year.
Recent reports indicate that several sanctioned vessels loaded LNG at the Arctic LNG 2 plant, with one delivery arriving in China on Thursday.
“The Arctic Mulan, laden with LNG from the sanctioned Russian Arctic LNG 2 project, has docked at the port of Beihai in China — marking the first time a loaded vessel from the project has called at a LNG import terminal,” Kpler said.
Arctic Mulan berthed at PipeChina’s 6 mtpa regasification terminal in Guangxi on August 28.
“At least five further Arctic LNG 2 loadings are en route to Asia following US President Donald Trump’s high-profile meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15. The arrival of Arctic Mulan could mark the first tangible indication of a softening in enforcement of US sanctions which have been in force since November 2023,” Kpler said.
The first GBS left the Belokamenka yard in July 2024, and Novatek completed the installation on the underbase foundation on the seabed at the Utrenniy terminal in August.
The first and second GBS each have a capacity of about 6.6 mtpa.