Russia doubles LNG shadow fleet in a year to boost gas exports – Bloomberg
Russia has nearly doubled its fleet of tankers transporting liquefied natural gas from the sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project in less than a year, as Moscow seeks to expand lucrative fuel exports despite Western restrictions.
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Russia has nearly doubled its fleet of tankers transporting liquefied natural gas from the sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project in less than a year.
Moscow seeks to expand lucrative fuel exports despite Western restrictions.
Impact analysis
Who claims what
- —Moscow seeks to expand lucrative fuel exports despite Western restrictions. (per Bloomberg)
- —Russia has nearly doubled its fleet of tankers transporting liquefied natural gas from the sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project in less than a year. (per Bloomberg)
Our assessment
If the claims attributed to Bloomberg hold, Russian exporters may be adapting to Western sanctions by increasing their use of shadow fleets to transport LNG. This would likely…
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