The United States is focused on depriving Russia of the opportunity to carry out projects in the field of production and export of liquefied natural gas (LNG), said US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Jeffrey Pyatt.
"Our goal is to ensure that Arctic LNG-2 will have no chance of success," Pyatt said, while refusing to comment on the possibility of imposing new sanctions against the Russian oil and gas industry.
"We are focused as much as possible on ensuring that Russia does not have the opportunity to implement new projects (for LNG production) in order to realize the gas that it used to send to Europe," the American official added.
On November 2, 2023, the US Treasury Department included Arctic LNG - 2 LLC, which is implementing a project to build a natural gas liquefaction plant, in the sanctions list. The Ministry also set January 31, 2024 as the deadline for completing transactions with Arctic LNG -2. The project participants are Novatek, the largest independent producer of natural gas in Russia (60%), the French corporation TotalEnergies (10%), Chinese CNPC (10%) and CNOOC (10%), as well as the Japanese consortium Japan Arctic LNG, which owns 10%, TASS reports.
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