Sanctioned Heavy-Lift Ships Deliver Key Arctic LNG 2 Modules to Russia, Pointing to Construction Restart

Two sanctioned heavy-lift vessels carrying key top-side modules for Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project have arrived at Novatek’s Belokamenka construction yard after a journey of nearly 2½ months from eastern China, offering the clearest indication yet that work on the project’s long-stalled third production train could be resuming despite Western sanctions.

Satellite imagery obtained by Synmax from Planet Labs and shared with gCaptain shows the heavy-lift vessel GloryOcean and Bright Ocean berthed at Novatek’s Belokamenka facility near Murmansk, where giant liquefied natural gas (LNG) process modules are assembled onto gravity-based structures (GBS) before being towed to Arctic LNG 2