Sanctioned Tanker to Arrive at Russia’s Arctic LNG Facility

A sanctioned LNG carrier is enroute to the Arctic LNG 2 facility to load what would be the fourth cargo of liquefied gas from the newest LNG facility in Russia. Bloomberg cited ship-tracking data as showing Everest Energy moving to the facility on the Gydan Peninsula in Siberia. The vessel was placed under U.S. sanctions last year, as was the Arctic LNG 2 facility itself. Earlier this week, the Financial Times reported that Novatek was shipping LNG from its second Arctic facility to floating storage because of the sanctions. Bloomberg said in its…