Russia may use field hit by US sanctions for gas exports to China

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MOSCOW - Russian gas giant Gazprom may tap a field hit by United States sanctions off the Pacific island of Sakhalin to provide China with gas under a recently signed deal, sources and analysts said

on Tuesday .the world's biggest energy consumer, reducing its dependence on its traditional European energy customers amid a standoff with the West.

As the project reaches its full capacity, the amount of Russian pipeline gas supplies to China would grow by 10 billion cubic metres per year, totalling 48 bcm per year, including supplies via the existing Power of Siberia pipeline.The company and CNPC have not responded to a request for comment. The sanctions prevent foreign companies from tapping hydrocarbons at such fields, and the possible gas exports from Yuzhno-Kirinskoye may show that Russia has learnt how to get around the sanctions.

 

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