The US State Department announced its intentions to disrupt the implementation of the Arctic LNG 2 project
The United States, with its sanctions, wants to disrupt the second Arctic project, Arctic LNG 2. This was stated by Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Geoffrey Pyatt.
We want to ensure that Arctic LNG 2 is dead... Very focused on preventing Russia from developing new projects to redirect the gas it previously sent to Europe
– The Wall Street Journal quoted him as saying.
The former US ambassador to Ukraine announced his intention to kill the project at a conference in Switzerland. Washington has already imposed sanctions against Arctic LNG 2 in November 2023. After this, the project had problems obtaining LNG tankers built in South Korea. Construction at the shipyard is also being slowed down, as membrane systems are required for lining LNG tanks. They are being developed by the French Gaztransport & Technigaz, which left the Russian Federation in 2023.
Against the backdrop of all this, the German state natural gas trader SEFE, which was a subsidiary of Gazprom before the nationalization of Germany, is not going to break the contract for the supply of fuel from the Yamal LNG plant. SEFE now has access to supplies from the Russian plant until 2040, which is causing fierce controversy in Berlin.
Lawmakers are demanding that the company terminate its contract with Moscow. Germany itself opposes the import of LNG from Russia, although it has not banned it, Bloomberg noted.
As the company's commercial director Frederic Barnot told the agency, Yamal is a valid contract.
And we must enforce it, although we are not participating in new deals with Russian LNG
– concluded the top manager.
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