Yamal LNG on line on time, readies first cargo

摘要

Russia’s 17.5mn t/yr Yamal LNG export plant will export its first cargo on 8 December, to China’s state-owned CNPC, days after its first 5.5mn t/yr liquefaction train began producing LNG on 5 December. The first cargo will load at Sabetta port on Arc7 ice-class LNG tanker the Christophe de Margerie. Project leader Russian independent gas producer Novatek’s chairman, Leonid Mikhelson, hailed “the successful start of this project on time and on budget according to our FID schedule”. CNPC will take 3mn t/yr of Yamal LNG’s output once the first three trains are on stream.