Another tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG (liquefied natural gas) 2 project has docked in a Chinese port, ship-tracking data showed, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in Beijing.
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) tracking data indicated the Russian Voskhod LNG tanker was anchored at an LNG terminal in the port of Tieshan in Guangxi, China.
The Russian flagged tanker, with a cargo of 150,000 cubic meters of LNG, was loaded up at the Arctic LNG 2 facility in Gydan in northern Siberia on July 19, LSEG data showed.
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The cargo is the second from the sanctioned project to dock in China after sanctioned tanker the Arctic Mulan arrived at the Beihai LNG terminal in late last month. The Arctic Mulan’s cargo was the first from Arctic LNG to reach an end-user since it started up last year.
The arctic project began production in December 2023, but is behind schedule in supplying cargoes of the gas, because of shortages of ice-class gas carriers and Western sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The cargo arrives days after Putin’s high-profile trip to China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit and a military parade to celebrate the end of World War II.
Arctic LNG 2, 60 percent-owned by Russia’s Novatek, was set to become one of the country’s largest LNG plants, with target output of 19.8 million tonnes per year, but sanctions have clouded its prospects.
Last year, eight cargoes were loaded from Arctic LNG 2 onto several sanctioned LNG vessels, Kpler data show, four of them discharged into the Koryak FSU.
This year, six known cargoes have been loaded from the project, with some sanctioned tankers traveling east along the Northern Sea Route.
Two tankers are now berthed on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian far east, with a third in the South China Sea between Taiwan and Hainan, LSEG data showed.
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