China receives eighth LNG cargo from Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 this year
Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 plant has delivered its eighth cargo this year to China, LSEG data showed on Friday, days after a liquefied natural gas carrier from the project caught fire and was left drifting in the Mediterranean.
According to the data, the gas carrier Iris loaded a cargo on February 7 from the floating storage unit Saam FSU near the Russian Arctic port of Murmansk and delivered it on Friday to the Beihai LNG terminal in China via the Suez Canal.
Last week, the Arctic Metagaz tanker, carrying a cargo from the sanctioned Russian LNG project, caught fire. Libyan authorities initially reported the vessel had sunk, but it has remained afloat and is drifting in waters between Italy and Malta.
Moscow described the incident as an attack by Ukrainian naval drones launched from the Libyan coast. Ukraine has not commented.
Last year, 23 cargoes - around 1.3 MM tonnes - were delivered to China from Arctic LNG 2, including shipments from storage facilities near Murmansk and Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula which gather cargoes from the plant.
Arctic LNG 2, 60% owned by Russia's Novatek, was set to become one of the country's largest LNG plants, with a target output of 19.8 metric MMtpy, but Western sanctions have clouded its prospects.
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