For the past four months, the Russian tanker Pioneer has been transporting Russian liquefied natural gas, coming from the Russian facility Arctitc LNG 2, without finding any buyer. And, after a third of a year – from August to last Thursday – traveling around the world, no country has wanted to risk purchasing its liquefied gas.
The reason? Possible retaliation by the USsince the North American giant is applying strong sanctions – together with the EU – to all Russian products, and many countries are afraid that,nte a possible purchase of this Russian gasthe American country could take action against them.
As pointed out Bloombergthe tanker docked last week in the far east of Russia, at the Koryak floating storage unit in Kamchatkaafter several months looking for buyers.
This information has been published by numerous international media, after satellite images of the tanker collecting the first shipment in early August were shared. After four months, the US restrictions seem to have had an effect on the posture of the rest of the countries worldwide, thus frustrating Moscow’s goal of tripling LNG exports by 2030.
However, it should be noted that there have been shipments from Arctic LNG 2 in recent months, although for this, Dark fleet vessels have been used and none have docked in a foreign port.
