While that volume remains only a fraction of ALNG2\u2019s full design capacity, it is a significant improvement over the winter of 2024\/25, when Novatek was forced to shut in production for extended periods because it had no access to Arc7 ice-class vessels capable of operating in heavy Arctic ice.<\/p>\n
Lower ice-class vessels insufficient<\/p>\n
The importance of the specialised Arc7 fleet was underscored earlier this winter when the Arc4-class LNG carrier\u00a0Buran attempted to reach ALNG2 in early December.Despite multiple attempts and escorts from nuclear-powered icebreakers, the vessel failed to reach the terminal, demonstrating that lower ice-class ships cannot reliably serve the project during winter.<\/p>\n
With\u00a0Aleksey Kosygin joining the fleet, Novatek is expected to keep a steady flow of LNG moving from ALNG2 to the\u00a0Saam FSU through the winter months and onward to Asian markets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the past four months, the company has completed 20 LNG deliveries from the project, providing much-needed revenue to the project, though the cargoes are being sold at discounts of up to one third to prevailing market prices.<\/p>\n
For Russia\u2019s shipbuilding industry, the delivery of the\u00a0Aleksey Kosygin is both a symbolic achievement and a reminder of ongoing constraints.<\/p>\n
While it demonstrates that Russia can, eventually, assemble highly complex Arctic LNG carriers at home, the years of delay and reliance on foreign-built hulls highlight the lasting impact of sanctions and the uncertainty surrounding the remaining Arc7 hulls and future vessels.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While that volume remains only a fraction of ALNG2\u2019s full design capacity, it is a significant improvement over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-675370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115842460285394288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}