US-Sanctioned Russian LNG Lands in China for First Time
Flowing wellhead equipment at the Utrenneye field, the resource base for Novatek's Arctic LNG 2 project, located in the Gydan Peninsula on the Kara Sea shore line in the Arctic circle, some 2500 km from Moscow.
Photographer: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images
A tanker with a shipment of liquefied natural gas from a US-sanctioned export facility in Russia has docked at a Chinese terminal for the first time, the latest move by Moscow to expand fuel deliveries into Asia.
The Arctic Mulan vessel, which is carrying fuel from the blacklisted Arctic LNG 2 plant in Russia’s north, docked at the Beihai LNG terminal on Thursday, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.