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Russia still can reach its ambitious LNG expansion target despite the shift of focus to domestic technology, Novatek CEO Leonid Mikhelson said Friday. The importance of LNG expansion intensifies with Russian piped gas exports to the EU facing a sharp reduction in the long term, Mikhelson told a briefing on …

U.S oil service company Baker Hughes will no longer provide engineering services to Russian LNG developers. That creates another serious headache for Novatek’s LNG projects in the Arctic. According to newspaper Kommersant, Baker Hughes will also stop deliveries of equipment to Russia. Baker Hughes plays a key role in several …

Russian LNG major Novatek said that the Arc7 ice-class module carrier Audax completed its trip along the Northern Sea Route. This is long after the traditional navigation season closure. The vessel delivered a process module weighing almost 12,000 tonnes for Arctic LNG 2 from Tianjin to Murmansk. The module will …

NovatekNovatek Gas & Power Asia Pte. Ltd., wholly owned subsidiary of Russia’s gas major Novatek, a and Zhejiang Energy Gas Group Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the Zhejiang Provincial Energy Group have signed a long-term LNG sale and purchase agreement for the LNG produced from the Arctic LNG 2 project. …

When news first broke a few years ago that Russia’s state nuclear energy company was working on a floating nuclear power plant, some took it as a joke. Others mocked it as the worst idea ever. But it turns out it wasn’t such an outlandish idea after all. The Akademik …

Russian LNG exporter Novatek has signed a cooperation agreement with Vietnam’s PetroVietnam on developing potential liquefied natural gas (LNG) and power projects in the southeast Asian country. The agreement was struck during Vietnamese president Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s visit to Moscow, where he held a meeting with Novatek chairman Leonid Mikhelson …

The completion of the Nord Stream 2, an undersea natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea that will greatly improve Russia’s capacity to transport gas to Germany, continued to drive up share prices of some Chinese energy companies on Tuesday, as some analysts said that companies investing in the Yamal …

Russian private natural gas producer and exporter Novatek is looking to sell LNG to Vietnam, it said, as it announced August 10 that it has opened an office in the capital Hanoi. The office will support its expansion into the global gas markets and provide continuous support for the its …

Hoping to develop the Northern Sea Route across the Arctic into an international shipping lane, Russia is building a group of icebreakers to be powered with liquefied natural gas. Russia already has the world’s only fleet of nuclear powered icebreakers but under president Vladimir Putin the objective is that its …

Reuters reports that top executives announced the news last week. The government has appointed Rosatom, Russia’s atomic energy corporation, as the state operator of the Northern Sea Route. Director general of Rosatom Alexei Likhachev said that by the end of the year a decision on the possible construction of two …