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The Christophe de Margerie, an ice-class tanker fitted out to transport liquefied natural gas, is docked in Arctic port of Sabetta, Yamalo-Nenets district, Russia March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Olesya Astakhova
by John Konrad (gCaptain) According to the ship-tracking website Marine Traffic, the arctic LNG tanker Nikolay Yevgenov has arrived in the Pacific Ocean after transiting the Northern Sea Route with a cargo of Russian gas. The ship departed Russia’s Yamal LNG terminal on June 15th and sailed east to an undisclosed port in Asia.
The Yamal LNG port is a joint venture between Russian natural gas company Novatek and the Russian government. The port is located along the Northern Sea Route in Sabetta, Russia and includes a large LNG plant designed to process up to 16.5 million tons of Siberian natural gas each year.
The Northern Sea Route, historically called the Northeast Passage, is an Arctic shipping route that stretches more than 3,000 nautical miles (5,550 kilometers) between the Barents Sea, near Russia’s border with Norway, and the Bering Strait in the Northern Pacific. It’s the shortest possible route between Asia and Europe.
Map courtesy Teekay
In August 2017 the ice-class LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie made the first unescorted voyage of an LNG carrier from Europe to Asia via the Northern Sea Route. The Yamal terminal began loading LNG aboard ships destined for Europe later that year and delivered its first arctic LNG shipment to China in 2018.
Marine Traffic tracking map of the LNG ship Nikolay Yevgenov
According to Marine Traffic, the Nikolay Yevgenov is owned by Teekay LNG (now Seapeak), inspected by the Russian Maritime Registry of Shipping, and is registered in the Bahamas.
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