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Russia’s Novatek has provisionally set Dec. 8 as the official launch date for its Yamal LNG plant. two sources with direct knowledge of the event planning told Reuters.
Novatek’s partners on the project are France’s Total . the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and China’s Silk Road Fund. The project. on the Yamal Peninsula above the Arctic Circle. will be Russia’s second LNG plant after Sakhalin-2 on the Pacific island of Sakhalin.
At full capacity. the Yamal facility will be able to produce 16.5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year. which it will ship to Europe and Asia. It is being built in three phases.
One of the sources received an invitation for a Dec. 8 opening of phase 1 and an industry source confirmed the date but both said the date may change. depending on the schedule of high-ranking officials expected at the event.
A Novatek spokesman said he could not confirm Dec. 8 as the launch date. The company has said that it aimed to open the plant before the end of this year.
