Gazprom’s Sakhalin plans heat up Russian LNG race

摘要

Russian state-controlled Gazprom is considering building a third train at the 9.6mn t/yr Sakhalin 2 LNG plant, as liberalisation of Russia’s LNG export regime boosts Asia-focused projects. Legislation ending Gazprom’s monopoly on LNG exports came into force on 1 December (WPA, 6 December, p3). Gazprom’s decision with its Sakhlin partner Shell comes after ExxonMobil and state-controlled Rosneft awarded initial engineering contracts in November for a rival 5mn-10mn t/yr LNG plant based on feedstock from the nearby Sakhalin 1 licence.