North Asia

A tanker bring freight from Russia's Arctic LNG 2 has actually gone through the Northern Sea Path for the very first time and approached a gas hub, according to LSEG shiptracking data, in the latest sign that Russia's energy exports are flowing despite Western sanctions. According to the data, the Everest Energy tanker, which was put under U.S. sanctions last month, was seen around 100 kilometres (around 50 nautical miles) off the Koryak floating storage center in Russia's far east. The system is designed to assist in Russian LNG exports to Asia, however the final destination for the freight has...

A liquefied gas tanker approved by the U.S. has actually been moving east from the Arctic LNG 2 plant along Russia's Northern Sea Path, LSEG ship tracking information revealed on Monday. Washington has recently imposed additional sanctions versus Russia for its war with Ukraine, including versus Arctic LNG 2, an important center for the Kremlin's drive to boost Russia's. share of the global LNG market to a 5th by 2030-2035. According to the LSEG information, Everest Energy, which came under. U.S. sanctions last month, was packed with LNG at the Arctic LNG. 2 site and is now on its method...

Ship tracking data revealed that a liquefied gas (LNG), tanker owned by an Indian firm, which was sanctioned last month by the United States for helping Russia in its war against Ukraine, berthed Friday at the Arctic LNG 2, a Russian LNG plant. LSEG data shows the Everest Energy parked at the plant, and its arrival confirms that the plant continues to export LNG. The tanker was managed by Mumbai's Ocean Speedstar Solutions OPC. They did not respond immediately to a comment request. Novatek, which owns 60% of the Arctic LNG 2 project and is also a party to Western...

The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on two business and two vessels linked to Russia's. Arctic LNG 2 project, its newest step to include costs on Moscow for. its intrusion of Ukraine. The U.S. Treasury said it had actually imposed sanctions on Gotik. Energy Shipping Co and Plio Energy Freight Shipping. Treasury stated. Gotik is the registered owner and Plio Energy is the commercial. supervisor of the melted gas carrier New Energy. The U.S. State Department stated New Energy used misleading. delivering practices, including turning off its automated. identification system, to fill freight from the U.S.-sanctioned. Arctic LNG 2 task....

Novatek, Russia's biggest liquefied gas (LNG), appears to be preparing a flotilla storage unit (FSU), to receive gas, as part of its Arctic LNG 2 Project, in spite of sanctions, LSEG Ship-Tracking data revealed on Friday. In response to Russia's "unprovoked" war against Ukraine, the United States increased its efforts in September to limit Russia's future revenue from energy. The Saam FSU stores gas from the Arctic LNG 2 Project to facilitate further delivery. The data revealed that the Everest Energy Gas carrier, which was also subject to U.S. Sanctions over Russia's War with Ukraine, is located in the Arctic...

Russia's JanuarySeptember exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) increased by 7.3% from a. year earlier to 23.5 million metric lots, LSEG information revealed on. Tuesday. Products in September alone rose by 2.6% from August to 2.81. million lots, according to the information. Europe represented one of the most of the exports, taking around. 12.2 million tons, or 52% of total Russian supply, in the first. 9 months of the year. Last month, materials to Europe reached 980,000 heaps,. slightly below 1 million heaps in August 2024 and September. 2023 each. According to LSEG and the U.S. State Department,. sanctions-hit Arctic...

Russian energy giant Gazprom's. average day-to-day natural gas supplies to Europe in. September edged up by 0.7% from August and were consistent year on. year, Reuters estimations showed on Tuesday. The calculations, based on data from the European gas. transmission group Entsog and Gazprom's daily reports on gas. transit by means of Ukraine, showed that typical day-to-day pipeline exports. increased to 90.2 million cubic metres (mcm) last month. That was up from 89.6 mcm in August and down just somewhat. from the 90.6 mcm in September 2023. Gazprom's overall gas products to the European Union. stood at about 2.71 billion...

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stated he had actually had a. really frank one-on-one discussion with his Hungarian. equivalent on Monday, amid disputes opened by Russia's. intrusion of Ukraine. Hungary has upset its NATO and European Union allies by. keeping close economic ties with Russia, and has likewise declined to. join other Western countries in sending arms to help its. neighbour. Kyiv for its part stopped the flow of oil from Russia's. Lukoil in June to refineries in Hungary and Slovakia, requiring. Hungary's MOL to renegotiate the supply through Belarus and. Ukraine. At a joint interview, Sybiha thanked Budapest for....

The management of the Russianheld Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station stated on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had actually introduced a new attack on a nearby electrical power substation, ruining a transformer. The Zaporizhzhia station, Europe's largest with 6 reactors, was seized by Russian forces in the early days of Russia's February 2022 intrusion of Ukraine. Each side regularly implicates the other of attacking or outlining to attack the plant. The plant's management, composing on Telegram, said an weapons strike had actually hit the transformer at the Raduga. substation in the town of Enerhodar in southeastern Ukraine. It explained the occurrence as...

Russia is ready to take the case of the Nord Stream pipeline explosions to court if the West fails to examine the matter, its foreign ministry stated on Saturday. The multi-billion dollar Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines transporting gas under the Baltic Sea were burst by a series of blasts in September 2022, seven months after Russia sent out 10s of countless soldiers into Ukraine. Nobody has declared responsibility for the explosions. Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Russia had submitted what she called pre-trial claims against Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland, based on the 1997 International Convention for...

Russian gas company Novatek has suspended deal with the development of the Murmansk and Ob liquefied gas (LNG) projects due to press from western sanctions, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Monday. Due to the pressure of sanctions, the leader of the Russian LNG market, Novatek, is looking for alternative options for monetizing its gas reserves and modifying promising export tasks, Kommersant reported, mentioning sources acquainted with the company's plans. According to Kommersant's sources, no active work is underway on either of the large-tonnage Murmansk LNG and Ob LNG projects. Building and construction for the Murmansk LNG job in Russia's. Arctic,...

Germany will indication two agreements to increase oil imports from Kazakhstan for Berlin's primary Schwedt oil refinery, sources informed Reuters on Sunday. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on Monday and Tuesday, on his first see to Central Asia as Berlin looks for new markets and sources of energy and minerals in the wake of the Ukraine war. Under the contract, a regular monthly supply of 100,000 metric loads of petroleum will be secured up until completion of 2025, with a. 2nd agreement for the supply of as much as 50,000 heaps per month. The PCK...

Czech gas transmission system operator NET4GAS has won an arbitration case against Russian group Gazprom Export over payments it was owed, the Czech business said. In a filing late on Thursday, NET4GAS said a tribunal had bought (Gazprom Export) to pay the claimed amount together with default interest and reimburse N4G for the costs of the proceedings. Gazprom and Gazprom Export did not immediately respond to a. request for remark. NET4GAS has said it was declaring 113 million euros from. Gazprom Export after the Russian carrier stopped working to make payments. under contracts following the halt in products to Europe...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz starts his very first visit to Central Asia on Sunday, taking a trip to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as Berlin tries to find new markets and sources of energy and minerals in the wake of the Ukraine war. He currently has some key offers under his belt. Kazakh crude started streaming through the Druzhba pipeline in 2015, keeping Berlin's Schwedt refinery running after the European Union imposed sanctions on Moscow, and Russian supplies dropped off. This marked a totally brand-new instructions in bilateral cooperation, as no Kazakh oil had actually previously flowed through this pipeline, a Kazakh...

Russian pranksters released footage on Thursday of a video call with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski after apparently fooling him into thinking he was speaking with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, who use the aliases Vovan and Lexus, have deceived a number of Western politicians over the years into going over subjects of interest to Moscow. The duo, who have denied Western accusations of having links to Russia's intelligence services, were offered a top state award in the Kremlin in July for their exploits. Reuters could not confirm the credibility of the video call, which...

The head of Norway's foreign intelligence service believes Russia has actually ended up being more likely to try to sabotage its facilities, such as oil and gas, than a year ago as Moscow becomes bolder in countering Western assistance for Ukraine. The threat level has changed, Vice Admiral Nils Andreas Stensoenes, head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS),. told Reuters. We believe sabotage is more likely, and we see acts of. sabotage occurring in Europe now which show that they (the. Russians) have moved a bit on that scale. Russia turns down such accusations as Western scaremongering. Its embassy in...

Oil and gas group MOL's. offers to carry Russian crude through Belarus and. Ukraine via the Druzhba pipeline abide by all European Union. and Ukrainian rules, MOL Executive Chairman Zsolt Hernadi stated. on website index.hu on Wednesday. Kyiv in June put Russian oil company Lukoil on a sanctions. list, stopping the circulation of its oil to MOL refineries in Hungary. and Slovakia, whose governments said this was a risk to. security of supply. Lukoil is set to resume oil materials in October to Slovakia. and Hungary through the Druzhba pipeline after MOL said on Monday it. secured new offers with...