Rosstat’s data shows that the country’s LNG terminals produced 3.2 million mt last month.
October LNG production also rose compared to 2.8 million mt in the previous month.
According to the data, Russian LNG terminals produced 26.8 million mt in January-October this year.
This represents a 3.7 percent decline compared to the same period last year.
In 2024, Russian LNG export plants produced about 34.7 million mt, Rosstat’s data previously showed.
This is up by 5.4 percent compared to 32.9 million mt in 2023.
Russia currently produces LNG via Novatek and Gazprom-operated LNG terminals.
Gazprom operates the Sakhalin-2 LNG terminal with a capacity of 10.8 mtpa and the mid-scale Portovaya LNG complex in the Leningrad region with a capacity of about 1.5 mtpa.
Besides these facilities, Novatek operates the 17.4 mtpa Yamal LNG plant in Sabetta.
Novatek also operates the mid-scale LNG plant in Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Vysotsk with a capacity of more than 660,000 tons of LNG per year.
Earlier this year, the US sanctioned Gazprom SPG Portovaya, the Russia-based operator of the Portovaya LNG terminal, and Cryogas Vyostsk, the Russia-based operator of the Cryogas Vysotsk LNG terminal.
Arctic LNG 2 shipments
Novatek also operates the Arctic LNG-2 export plant, which was the first to be hit by US and EU sanctions.
In August 2024, Novatek delivered the second gravity-based structure platform from its yard near Murmansk to the site of the Arctic LNG 2 project located on the Gydan peninsula.
The company completed the second GBS despite sanctions by the US and the EU related to the Arctic LNG 2 project and LNG carriers.
The first GBS left the Belokamenka yard in July 2024, and Novatek completed the installation on the underbase foundation on the seabed at the Utrenniy terminal in August.
The first and second GBS each have a capacity of about 6.6 mtpa.
According to several reports, Novatek started producing LNG at the second unit earlier this year.
Several reports indicate that sanctioned vessels contineu to load LNG at the Arctic LNG 2 plant, with the first delivery arriving on board Arctic Mulan at PipeChina’s 6 mtpa regasification terminal in Guangxi on August 28.
Last month, the UK government imposed sanctions on China’s Beihai LNG terminal, as it has been importing LNG from the sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia.
“Beihai has been importing LNG from Arctic LNG 2 – the severely disrupted flagship Russian LNG project, sanctioned by the UK in February 2024,” the government said in a statement.
