According to Rosstat, this marks a 3.6 percent decrease compared to 2024.
Rosstat previously said that Russia produced 34.7 million mt in 2024.
Compared to this, 2025 production decreased 5.2 percent.
Moreover, Rosstat’s data shows that the country’s LNG terminals produced 3 million mt in December.
This marks a 7.1 percent decrease compared to the same month in 2024 and a 1.4 percent decrease compared to the prior month, according to Rosstat.
Several Russian media outlets recently reported that Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that the country’s goal of reaching 100 million tonnes per year of LNG by 2030 has been postponed by “several years” due to sanctions..
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.
Last 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
Novatek also operates the Arctic LNG-2 export plant, which was first 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 last year.
Several reports also indicate that sanctioned vessels continue to load LNG at the Arctic LNG 2 plant.
Russian Zvezda yard recently delivered what it says is the first Russian-built ice-class liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier.
The 172,600-cbm Aleksey Kosygin is the first ice-class Arc7 carrier in a series of vessels that will serve the Novatek-operated Arctic LNG 2 project.
Sovcomflot recently reported that the vessel completed its maiden voyage.
