Satellite Images Show LNG Ship at Sanctioned Russian Plant (1)

A large vessel docked at Russia’s liquefied natural gas export plant in the Arctic last week, according to satellite images, in what appears to be the first move to circumvent US sanctions against the facility.

Novatek PJSC, which leads the facility, has not commented on the arrival of a vessel, and the images, taken by the Sentinel 2 satellite, do not confirm LNG is being loaded.

However, the ship is a roughly 280-meter (919-foot) long vessel docked at the Arctic LNG 2 facility around Aug. 1, almost exactly the length of a typical LNG vessel.

The satellite image also ...