Qualla: Yamal LNG https://qualla.com/yamal-lng en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Yamal LNG https://qualla.com/yamal-lng Yamal LNG: Introduction https://qualla.com/yamal-lng/ On 8 December 2017, President Vladimir Putin pressed a button and the first cargo of liquefied natural gas began flowing into the tanker Christophe de Margerie at a dock that had not existed five years earlier. The ceremony marked the operational launch of Yamal LNG, a $27 billion industrial gamble built on permafrost at 71 degrees north, above the Arctic Circle, in conditions that freeze equipment, shatter conventional shipping schedules, and test every assumption about where energy infrastructure can function. Named for the Yamal Peninsula that hosts it, the project draws gas from the Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye field and liquefies it at a plant near the port of Sabetta before loading it onto ice-breaking tankers bound for markets in Europe and Asia. It has been called the crown jewel of the Northern Sea Route.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/v/s/e/m/yamal-lng-wp/vsem-yamal-lng-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Yamal LNG: From License to Launchpad https://qualla.com/yamal-lng/ The project's origins trace to 2005, when a company controlled by Gennady Timchenko and Pyotr Kolbin obtained a license for the Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye gas field. Novatek, Russia's largest independent gas producer, took control of the venture in 2009. Gazprom had floated its own compe...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/v/s/e/m/yamal-lng-wp/vsem-yamal-lng-from-license-to-launchpad.mp3 0:06 2 full Yamal LNG: A Fleet That Breaks Ice https://qualla.com/yamal-lng/ Conventional LNG tankers cannot reach Sabetta. The Ob estuary and Kara Sea freeze solid, and the Northern Sea Route that connects the port to Asian markets is navigable only seasonally. Yamal LNG's answer is a fleet of fifteen Yamalmax-class tankers, each capable of breaking thro...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/v/s/e/m/yamal-lng-wp/vsem-yamal-lng-a-fleet-that-breaks-ice.mp3 0:06 3 full Yamal LNG: Follow the Money North https://qualla.com/yamal-lng/ The $27 billion price tag reveals whose money flows through Arctic gas. Novatek holds 50.1 percent of the venture. France's TotalEnergies owns 20 percent, China's CNPC another 20 percent, and China's Silk Road Fund holds 9.9 percent. Shareholders contributed $10.5 billion in equi...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/v/s/e/m/yamal-lng-wp/vsem-yamal-lng-follow-the-money-north.mp3 0:06 4 full Yamal LNG: Sanctions, Tankers, and European Dependence https://qualla.com/yamal-lng/ Yamal LNG has been entangled in sanctions since 2019, when the United States targeted Cosco Shipping subsidiaries involved in transporting LNG from Sabetta. The sanctions complicated operations for a third of Sabetta's ice-breaking fleet -- six ARC7 tankers operated through a joi...

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