The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office announced in a statement on Tuesday the “biggest sanctions package against Russia four years on from the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.”
Nearly 300 new sanctions were announced as the UK cracks down on critical Russian energy revenues, including oil exports, and key suppliers of military equipment, the statement said.
These include six targets in Russia’s “beleaguered liquified natural gas (LNG) industry, including ships, traders, and Russia’s Portovaya and Vysotsk terminals responsible for exporting Russian LNG,” it said.
The vessels are LNG Soars (IMO 9307205) and Kunpeng (IMO 9247194).
According to VesselSVaue data, the 145,000-cbm LNG Soars, previously known as CCH Gas, was built in 2003.
The 138,271-cbm Kunpeng, previously known as SK Sunrise, was built in 2003.
These vessels add to the previously sanctioned ships.
As per the Russian LNG export terminal operators, these are owned by Gazprom and Novatek.
Back in September 2024, Gazprom shipped the first cargo of LNG produced at its Portovaya LNG complex in the Leningrad region.
Gazprom’s Portovaya complex on the Baltic Sea is a mid-scale plant able to produce about 1.5 million tons of LNG per year from two trains.
Novatek operates the mid-scale LNG plant in Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Vysotsk.
The Vysotsk facility has a capacity of 660 thousand tons of LNG per year, but it has been producing LNG above its nameplate capacity.
The US government sanctioned both of these facilities in January 2025.