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Posted on April 15, 2026
2 min readLast updated: April 15, 2026
Add as preferred source on GoogleGazprom has completed a second LNG shipment from its Portovaya plant to China’s Beihai terminal since U.S. sanctions took effect in January 2025, marking a renewed but limited restart of exports from the small-scale 1.5 Mt/yr facility. Previously, shipments had resumed only in December after a month
MOSCOW, April 15 (Reuters) - Russian energy giant Gazprom has delivered a second post-sanctions LNG cargo from the Baltic Sea's Portovaya plant to China, LSEG data showed on Wednesday.
The small-scale Portovaya plant, which has a production capacity of 1.5 million tons of LNG per year, started operations in September 2022.
Exports from the plant have been interrupted by additional U.S. sanctions over the Ukraine war that were imposed in January 2025 to disrupt Russia's ability to produce and export LNG and reduce its revenue from the trade.
Gas carrier Valera, formerly known as Velikiy Novgorod, loaded the cargo at the Baltic Sea plant on January 25 and delivered it to the Beihai LNG terminal on Wednesday, LSEG ship-tracking data showed.
The first cargo from the plant after a hiatus was delivered to the terminal last December.
Another of Russia's sanctioned plants, Arctic LNG-2, also supplies LNG to Beihai.
Before the sanctions, Portovaya shipped two cargoes a month on average during winter. Since March 2025, beyond the two shipments to China, it has been sending one cargo per month to the Russian western exclave of Kaliningrad.
In the early stages of its operations, most cargoes from Portovaya were delivered to Turkey and Greece with markets subsequently widening to China, Spain and Italy.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kate Mayberry)
The Portovaya LNG plant is a small-scale facility in the Baltic Sea with a production capacity of 1.5 million tons of LNG per year, operated by Gazprom.
U.S. sanctions imposed in January 2025 disrupted Russia's ability to export LNG by targeting operations at plants like Portovaya, reducing export volumes.
The latest Russian LNG cargo from Portovaya was delivered to the Beihai LNG terminal in China.
In addition to China, Portovaya's LNG cargoes have been delivered to Kaliningrad, Turkey, Greece, Spain, and Italy.
The gas carrier Valera, formerly known as Velikiy Novgorod, was used to transport LNG from Portovaya to China.
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