Sakhalin gas: Shell loses, whales win

There are three opponents of Russia’s strategy to become a global liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter – the western gray whale, the US government and Gazprom.

Until this week, and for quite different reasons, all three, including the LNG producer itself, Gazprom, have succeeded in delaying and redirecting plans to start shipments from the first of Russia’s LNG plants at Aniva Bay on Sakhalin Island, in the Far East; and to postpone indefinitely drawing-board plans and joint-venture

agreements to build the second and third LNG plants on the Baltic, and to the north, on the Barents Sea.
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