Sanctioned LNG Carrier Iris Arrives at Russia’s Arctic Project
(Reuters) — A liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessel called Iris that has been sanctioned by the U.S. berthed at Russia's Arctic LNG 2 plant on June 26, shiptracking data from LSEG and Kpler showed.
If the vessel picks up gas, it would mark the ninth LNG cargo to be offloaded from the Arctic LNG 2 project, according to Kpler data. The last shipment was picked up by the Arctic Metagaz vessel on October 5.
In October, the U.S. state department imposed sanctions on registered owners and managers of several LNG vessels including Iris, which was previously known as North Sky.
The Iris vessel changed its ship or commercial manager on April 25 to Elegest OOO, which has a registered address in Moscow, according to shipping database Equasis. The vessel's registered owner is listed as LNG Gamma Shipping.
Reuters was not able to find contact information for LNG Gamma Shipping.
The Arctic LNG 2 project owned by Russia's Novatek is also subject to Western sanctions over Russia's conflict with Ukraine.
A source said in May that the project had started production from its second train, even though it has been unable to sell LNG from its first train.
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