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PAO Novatek has discovered a prolific natural gas and condensate field it plans to use to boost the resource base for its Arctic LNG 1 project as it furthers its goal of growing Russian exports. Novatek, Russia’s largest independent natural gas producer, reported it has found a field on the Gydan Peninsula in the far…

TotalEnergies SE is withdrawing its representatives on PAO Novatek’s board and said it would stop accounting for its 19.4% stake in the company.

Russian LNG exports to Europe are on the rise despite the continent’s efforts to diversify natural gas supplies and impose a series of sanctions against the country for its war in Ukraine. Most of the liquefied natural gas exported from Russia to Europe has been sourced from PAO Novatek’s Yamal LNG facility in the country’s…

Russia’s control of global oil and natural gas supplies, and particularly LNG, has progressed with ExxonMobil’s exit from the Sakhalin-1 offshore oil project. ExxonMobil disclosed exited Sakhalin-1 after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree expropriating the supermajor’s 30% stake “With its two recent decrees, the Russian government unilaterally terminated our interests in Sakhalin-1, and…

President Vladimir Putin’s latest decree to stop sales of Russian energy assets, leaves the status and progress of Russia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in disarray.  The decree takes full control of the 9.6 mmt/y Sakhalin-2 project in Russia’s far east. Shell plc has already said it plans to divest its 27.5% stake in the…

Russia’s largest independent gas producer, PAO Novatek, is struggling with its two liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in the country’s Far North under the latest European sanctions imposed against Russia.   Novatek’s first operating export facility, Yamal LNG, is finding it difficult to secure European buyers. And the delay in the construction of its second project,…

PAO Novatek, Russia’s largest independent natural gas producer, reported record natural gas sales last year as prices soared and demand jumped as the world recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic. The company said natural gas sales volumes, including liquefied natural gas (LNG), increased by 0.3% year/year in 2021 to 75.8 billion cubic meters (Bcm). Volumes sold…

Russia’s second largest natural gas producer, PAO Novatek, has signed two long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contracts from its Arctic LNG 2 project with two Chinese distributors.  A subsidiary of China’s largest independent gas distributor, ENN Natural Gas Co. Ltd., agreed to purchase 0.6 million metric tons/year (mmty) for 11 years from Novatek. Volumes…

PAO Novatek said this week that the 19.8 million metric tons/year (mmty) Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia’s Far North signed loan agreements with a consortium of international banks, securing all the facility’s external funding. The banks agreed to provide $10.8 billion for up to 15 years for the $21 billion project that is to…