Russia ups LNG production in May

Rosstat’s data shows that the country’s LNG terminals produced 3.2 million mt last month.

This is higher than 3 million mt last month but lower than 3.3 million mt in March, which equaled the monthly LNG production record achieved in January this year.

During the first five months of this year, LNG production rose 10.4 percent year-on-year to 15.7 million mt, the data shows.

Rosstat data previously showed that Russian LNG production dropped to 32.9 million mt last year.

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 and the Arctic LNG-2 export plant, which was the first to be hit by US and EU sanctions.

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.

Last 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.