Russia’s exports of liquefied natural gas rose 9.9 per cent in the first half of the year to 16.6 million tonnes, boosted by growing supplies from the new Arctic LNG 2 project, preliminary LSEG data showed on Thursday.
However, June exports fell 1.5 per cent from a year earlier and 37 per cent from May to 2.03 million tonnes, due to seasonal maintenance at the Asia-orientated Sakhalin-2 plant.
Sakhalin-2, controlled by Russian state gas company Gazprom, suspended LNG output and exports with effect from June 17, due to planned maintenance, according to LSEG ship-tracking data.
Supplies from Arctic LNG 2 reached around 1.6 million tonnes in the first half of this year, according to the data.