Third cargo from Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 discharges and departs China
A third tanker from Russia's Arctic LNG 2 plant, which is under Western sanctions, discharged its cargo and exited a terminal in China on Wednesday, LSEG and Kpler's ship-tracking data showed.
The U.S.-sanctioned LNG tanker Zarya unloaded more than 160,000 m3 of LNG from the sanctioned Russian project Arctic LNG 2 at the Beihai LNG Terminal in Guangxi, southern China.
China has so far received three cargoes of LNG from Arctic LNG 2, totaling more than 386,000 m3 of LNG, according to data from LSEG.
Two more Arctic LNG 2 cargoes are a few days away from Beihai, on the 174,000-m3 Buran and the 174,000-m3 Iris. The Buran is signaling an estimated arrival date of September 13, according to data intelligence firm ICIS.
Arctic LNG 2, which was set to become one of Russia's largest LNG plants with eventual output of 19.8 metric MMtpy, was included in Western sanctions over Moscow's war in Ukraine and has been struggling to sell LNG from the project despite beginning production and loading cargoes in August 2024.
However, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's stated priority is to bring the Russia-Ukraine war to an end without larger disruptions, when asked how the U.S. would react to Chinese purchases of sanctioned Russian LNG cargoes.
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