While this is a UKGov announcement of a UK-wide policy, one of the big shits is based in Scotland:
>As first reported by POLITICO, one British company, Seapeak Maritime Glasgow Ltd, was identified by the campaign group Razom We Stand this week as being involved in facilitating 4 million tons of LNG cargoes from Yamal LNG, Russia’s Siberian export terminal, in the first half of 2025 — accounting for 39 percent of total shipments in this time period.
>LONDON — British shipping firms and insurers will be banned from facilitating the export of Russia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) in a new bid to cut off Vladimir Putin’s fossil fuel revenues.
>U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper announced the measures Tuesday at the meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Niagara, Canada.
>The U.K. banned the import of Russian LNG in 2023. But nearly four years on from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, British firms have still been able to provide services for tankers carrying the super-cooled fuel.
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>The ban will be phased in over the course of 2026. The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said this was part of coordinated action with the European Union.
>Under its latest sanctions package, the EU plans to ban the import of Russian LNG under long-term contracts by Jan. 1, 2027 — and sooner for short-term contracts. The timescale for the U.K.’s maritime services ban means British firms will be able to facilitate cargoes bound for Europe until the EU’s import ban comes into force.
>Europe’s supply of pipeline gas from Russia was drastically reduced after Russia’s invasion in 2022, but Russian LNG imports via ship increased to record levels.
>As first reported by POLITICO, one British company, Seapeak Maritime Glasgow Ltd, was identified by the campaign group Razom We Stand this week as being involved in facilitating 4 million tons of LNG cargoes from Yamal LNG, Russia’s Siberian export terminal, in the first half of 2025 — accounting for 39 percent of total shipments in this time period.
>POLITICO has approached the Seapeak group for comment.
>Yamal is the main export route for gas heading to Europe and is part owned by TotalEnergies, the French fossil fuel giant, whose U.K. subsidiary also supplies the British public sector with gas via an £8 billion contract. Gas supplied under that contract is procured on the domestic U.K. market where the presence of Russian gas is unlikely. TotalEnergies complies with the U.K.’s Russian LNG import ban.
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>Svitlana Romanko, founder and executive director of Razom We Stand, said: “As missiles and drones continue to devastate Ukraine daily, the U.K. government’s move to impose a maritime services ban on Russian LNG is a long-overdue and welcome step.
>“Cutting off U.K. maritime support for Russian LNG exports will choke the revenues fueling Putin’s brutal war machine, revenues that have sustained atrocities from the start.”
>The U.K. is also announcing an additional £13 million in funding to help repair Ukraine’s energy network, which has suffered repeated bombardments throughout the war.
>Cooper said Putin was “trying to plunge Ukraine into darkness and the cold as winter approaches.”
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While this is a UKGov announcement of a UK-wide policy, one of the big shits is based in Scotland:
>As first reported by POLITICO, one British company, Seapeak Maritime Glasgow Ltd, was identified by the campaign group Razom We Stand this week as being involved in facilitating 4 million tons of LNG cargoes from Yamal LNG, Russia’s Siberian export terminal, in the first half of 2025 — accounting for 39 percent of total shipments in this time period.
>LONDON — British shipping firms and insurers will be banned from facilitating the export of Russia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) in a new bid to cut off Vladimir Putin’s fossil fuel revenues.
>U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper announced the measures Tuesday at the meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Niagara, Canada.
>The U.K. banned the import of Russian LNG in 2023. But nearly four years on from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, British firms have still been able to provide services for tankers carrying the super-cooled fuel.
>
>The ban will be phased in over the course of 2026. The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said this was part of coordinated action with the European Union.
>Under its latest sanctions package, the EU plans to ban the import of Russian LNG under long-term contracts by Jan. 1, 2027 — and sooner for short-term contracts. The timescale for the U.K.’s maritime services ban means British firms will be able to facilitate cargoes bound for Europe until the EU’s import ban comes into force.
>Europe’s supply of pipeline gas from Russia was drastically reduced after Russia’s invasion in 2022, but Russian LNG imports via ship increased to record levels.
>As first reported by POLITICO, one British company, Seapeak Maritime Glasgow Ltd, was identified by the campaign group Razom We Stand this week as being involved in facilitating 4 million tons of LNG cargoes from Yamal LNG, Russia’s Siberian export terminal, in the first half of 2025 — accounting for 39 percent of total shipments in this time period.
>POLITICO has approached the Seapeak group for comment.
>Yamal is the main export route for gas heading to Europe and is part owned by TotalEnergies, the French fossil fuel giant, whose U.K. subsidiary also supplies the British public sector with gas via an £8 billion contract. Gas supplied under that contract is procured on the domestic U.K. market where the presence of Russian gas is unlikely. TotalEnergies complies with the U.K.’s Russian LNG import ban.
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>Svitlana Romanko, founder and executive director of Razom We Stand, said: “As missiles and drones continue to devastate Ukraine daily, the U.K. government’s move to impose a maritime services ban on Russian LNG is a long-overdue and welcome step.
>“Cutting off U.K. maritime support for Russian LNG exports will choke the revenues fueling Putin’s brutal war machine, revenues that have sustained atrocities from the start.”
>The U.K. is also announcing an additional £13 million in funding to help repair Ukraine’s energy network, which has suffered repeated bombardments throughout the war.
>Cooper said Putin was “trying to plunge Ukraine into darkness and the cold as winter approaches.”
Has Kier grown some?
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