Europeans purchased a record volume of liquefied natural gas from the Yamal LNG plant.

Consumers in France, Belgium, Spain, and other European countries purchased a record volume of liquefied natural gas from Russia's large-capacity Yamal LNG plant in the first half of the year, reaching 9,89 million tons.

This was reported by the British newspaper The Financial Times, citing data from experts at the analytical company Kpler.

It is noted that the half-year volume of purchases exceeds the same figure for last year by 18 percent.

The largest European consumers of Yamal LNG products were France, Belgium, and Spain, purchasing 3,6, 2,9, and 2,7 million tons of fuel, respectively. The total purchases of liquefied natural gas produced by this plant by EU countries are estimated to be approximately six billion euros.

In fact, Russian LNG supplies to Europe are set to cease very soon. Officially. In January, the European Council announced a complete ban on imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia, effective early next year. It's already partially in effect, as EU countries have been banned from receiving Russian LNG under short-term contracts since April. And starting September 30, 2027, the complete ban will also apply to Russian pipeline gas. However, given the complexities of the modern economy, it's possible that Europe might suddenly start purchasing gas from suppliers in Tau Ceti...

Besides Yamal LNG, Russia has another large-scale liquefied natural gas plant, Sakhalin-2. There's also Arctic LNG, but it hasn't officially launched yet, although it has already begun exporting to China.

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[24rus]

They're preparing for war with us, so they're buying gas from us at record levels.

[Major Whirlwind]

And we happily sell our enemy's military-industrial complex the energy they so desperately need, so they can more cheaply ramp up production of the weapons they use to destroy us. What a wise leadership is permanently in charge of the Russian Federation. Hooray, comrades! The United Russia party is the missing piece of intelligence, honor, and conscience of our era!

[carpenter]

Quote: Major Whirlwind

What wise leadership is permanently in charge of the Russian Federation?

Russia is waging a war, and it requires money, which it doesn’t have.

[Gunther]

The Kremlin's compradors are schizophrenic - they shout that the collective West is at war with us, and then suddenly "we are open to cooperation," selling non-renewable resources for pennies, which the Europeans use to launch missiles and drones that kill the people of Russia.
They sell Indian oil for free in order to buy refined products at exorbitant prices. True, they profit from this, but not the state.
A strange war.
Regarding the money, you need to ask Nabiullina about it, and about the wasted polymers worth 340 billion.

[Gardamir]

and no one warned her that someone would get bored and want some action.

[carpenter]

Quote: Gunter

Regarding the money, you need to ask Nabibullina.

Countries that are waging war, the formula "goods, money, goods" does not work for them.

[bayard]

But the vertical doesn't have war; it has the Central Military District, and that's different. If Russia refuses gas and oil to its partners, they won't be able to fight us; they'll go bankrupt, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces will run out of ammunition and money. What will we do then? The Central Military District wasn't started to be ended like this, and certainly not for the sake of victory. That's why the Rothschild-Witte slogan, "We'll still sell grain, ammunition, gas, and oil to the enemy if we don't eat enough"—that's all we have.
Besides, there are elections, an oil crisis, and an overheated economy. Nabiullina needs money again. How can they supply so many drones to the Ukrainian Armed Forces without our gas that Russia is already out of motor fuel? We can't let our partners down; we're reliable suppliers. So everyone vote for United Russia, and tomorrow will definitely be better than yesterday. If 1000 drones landed in Russia yesterday, tomorrow there will definitely be 1500, or even 2000—that's much more, which means it's better than yesterday.

[hector]

Quote: carpenter

Russia is waging a war, and it requires money, which it doesn’t have.

This is called "multi-chairing." What claims can there be against Lukashenko after this?

[Alexander Shcherbakov]

What can we buy with these euros if everything is under sanctions?

[Vladimir60]

The oligarchic elite is selling mineral resources to line its own pockets. The budget receives no profit, only tax deductions. Isn't it time to finally nationalize the right to sell mineral resources?!

[your1970]

Quote: Vladimir60

Isn't it time to finally nationalize the right to sell subsoil resources?!

Nationalized and? They won't buy them and won't let us buy them – what next?

[hector]

Quote: your1970

Nationalized and? They won't buy them and won't let us buy them – what next?

This is a "cool" argument, then let it remain like this and supply the enemies with cheap resources.

[your1970]

Quote: ettore

Quote: your1970

Nationalized and? They won't buy them and won't let us buy them – what next?

This is a "cool" argument, then let it remain like this and supply the enemies with cheap resources.

Well, the USSR built gas and oil pipelines to its NATO enemies during the Cold War. And it pumped resources out for pennies.
Apparently the enemies were false, pretend...

[hector]

NATO wasn't at war with the USSR back then. And those "pennies" went entirely to the budget; now, after the 2018 tax maneuver, resource exports are completely tax-free.

[your1970]

Quote: ettore

NATO was not at war with the USSR at that time.

And it still is formally He's not fighting—he's sending weapons and advisers to Ukraine, just like he did to Afghanistan. So what about the Maidans in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, and Poland?
You decide whether they are enemies or not, otherwise it strongly smells of today's Vietnam

Quote: ettore

And those "pennies" went entirely to the budget,

So, if everything went into the budget now, would you be satisfied? The fact that they went to Angola/Mozambique and ended up there, bypassing the Soviet people, is a small thing, right?

Germany was fully gasified by 1980; the USSR had covered 6% of rural settlements by 1986. And the "damn capitalists" in the 1990s (when nothing worked!!!!) By 1999, this percentage had increased to 14

[hector]

Quote: your1970

So if everything went into the budget now, would you be satisfied?

This is much better than what is happening now.
But you are obviously very happy with what is not working.

[your1970]

Quote: ettore

This is much better than what is happening now.
But you

Something like this
Thus, additional revenues from the mineral extraction tax in 2024 will amount to 9,733 trillion rubles, in 2025 – 9,814 trillion rubles, and in 2026 – 9,886 trillion rubles. In 2023, revenues are preliminarily projected to be 7,714 trillion rubles.
The loss of revenue due to the zero export duty rate is small: in 2023, 288,293 billion rubles were received from oil and 119,928 billion rubles from petroleum products.

Before the tax maneuver, revenues from the Federal Customs Service made up 62% of the budget and these were mainly export duties, while the Federal Tax Service provided about 20%.
After its implementation, the budget did not fall by half - which means that instead of the Federal Customs Service, the Federal Tax Service is now collecting the same amount of money in a comparable amount.

So your statement about "everything in your pocket" is incorrect.

[credo]

They are preparing for war with us, that’s why they are buying gas in record quantities... from us.

So what's the logic here?
After all, it turns out that by buying gas from Qatar, the USA and Norway, they are also preparing to fight with them.
Apparently, the reason is different and it is obvious - Russia sells gas cheaper and everyone who desperately needs it takes advantage of this, despite mutual dislike.

[tralflot1832]

They allowed the Chinese into Yamal LNG - almost all of their LNG carriers are ice-class. That's where we're starting from.

[Alex013]

"...in the first half of the year, we purchased a record volume of liquefied natural gas from Russia's large-capacity Yamal LNG plant. It amounted to 9,89 million tons" – in reality, this is a small share of the global total.
According to a report from the International Gas Union (IGU), global trade in liquefied natural gas (LNG) is expected to reach 436,98 million tonnes in 2025, up 25,74 million tonnes, or 6,3%, from 2024.

[carpenter]

Quote: Alex013

which is 25,74 million tons, or 6,3%, more than in 2024.

Gas consumption is growing year after year, and reserves are being depleted. Then the time will come when gas will no longer be sold and will only be available for domestic consumption.

[Vadim S]

And we happily sold it to them so their factories could continue churning out the shells and drones that fly at us! Respect to our leaders, they're clearly showing the people how they don't care.

[carpenter]

Quote: Vadim S

I have so much respect for our rulers, they clearly show the people how they don't care about them.

In Russia, more than anywhere else, they love to express dissatisfaction with their rulers.

[Gardamir]

Well, you don't watch the French news.

[AA17]

And we happily sold it to them so that their factories could continue to produce shells and drones that fly at us!...

NOVATEK, a company that supplies LNG to Europe, works for Russia's enemies.
Russia's budget receives virtually no money from LNG sales.
The Russian state supplies LNG to Europe free of charge.

NOVATEK's liquefied natural gas is displacing Gazprom's pipeline gas from the Northwestern European market, resulting in a 30 billion ruble budget shortfall in 2018. This position is contained in a letter from the company's Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Vitaly Markelov, Interfax reports. The letter was a response to a letter from Vladimir Litvinenko, Rector of the Saint Petersburg Mining University, to the Russian president, in which he proposed creating a cluster for the production of 150 million tons of LNG in Yamal and Gydan. Kommersant's sources confirmed the existence of the letter.
Mr. Markelov emphasizes that NOVATEK's Yamal LNG project is exempt—unlike Gazprom's fields—from paying the mineral extraction tax and export duties.
Of the 7,6 million tons of LNG produced by the project in 2018, 4,9 million tons were sent to the European market. As a result, Russian pipeline gas, which is subject to a 30% export duty, was displaced from the market, according to Gazprom. Vitaly Markelov recalls that in February 2019, Yamal LNG became the largest LNG supplier to Europe, while Gazprom's exports fell by 13% year-on-year.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3937997

Gas from the Yamal LNG plant, controlled by NOVATEK and exempt from duties and taxes, will compete with Gazprom's products on the European market. This opinion was expressed by Nikolai Kislenko, Deputy Head of Gazprom's Prospective Development Department, at the "Gas of Russia 2017" forum, Interfax reports.
“Yamal LNG means no export duty, no mineral extraction tax, and the gas it replaces is the same gas [from which taxes and duties] Gazprom would have transferred to the Russian state budget,” he explained.
According to Kislenko, this will lead to a loss of budgetary efficiency.
According to him, Russian gas has a closing function on the European market, "therefore, any cubic meter of liquefied natural gas supplied to the European market is minus one cubic meter of Russian (pipeline – RBC) gas." ...
https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5a26bcd59a794735f990bfcf

And the VPR probably doesn’t even know about this: the bad and evil boyars are deceiving the good and kind tsar.

[alexoff]

Some of our leaders would have sold them shells, they'd buy them from someone anyway, but here we are! We need money for the war, right?

[your1970]

Quote: Vadim S

And we happily sold it to them so that their factories could continue to produce shells and drones that fly at us!

Ukrainian Leopards were made using gas supplied by the USSR to NATO via the Soviet gas pipeline.
But this is not a shield...

[APASUS]

Southeast Asia is a very good customer. You just have to know how to work with them. But ours are diligently supplying our enemy.

[carpenter]

Quote: APASUS

But our people are diligently supplying our enemy.

Asia is far away, the enemy is closer.

[Personal opinion]

This stimulates the Europeans' desire to defeat Russia and quickly gain full control of its natural resources. The price for them will then be different.

[Mouse]

As I understand it... It's a top secret...

[Idle_piston]

Europeans purchased a record volume of liquefied natural gas from the Yamal LNG plant.

So, a Frenchman is captured by Russian tankers, and Russia sells them gas. And this gas will go to supply the industry that will churn out weapons that will kill our soldiers. And now tell me there are no traitors in power.

[g_ae]

Paying with drones and missiles? And with direct delivery to fuel and energy companies? What a brilliant business plan. Simply brilliant.

[rocket757]

"And I always want to eat, to live sweetly"... nothing new, if you think about it...

[Waifu]

The destruction of the Russian people is underway, both by external and internal enemies.

[Tooks]

So, Europe is indirectly funding the CIS? I wonder if they even realize it or not?

[Prisoner]

I predict this will backfire on us, and we'll pay in blood. With these European cannibals and vampires, things are never any different. Only this blood will not be the merchants’, but ours.

[snow mountain]

Europeans purchased a record volume of liquefied natural gas from the Yamal LNG plant.

To then supply it to the hihihs or use it in the production of weapons for the same hihihs

[Foaly]

As usual, the old ladies started wailing: "Oh, what's going on!" But this project is international, with tens of billions in foreign investment. And now there are two options: supply gas and make a killing, or not supply gas and pay huge penalties.

[Earl]

I remember, in response to Europe's desire to get rid of Russian gas, the JudoChess Player stated that Russia could cut off these supplies itself, but again, nothing came of it. Isn't that a multi-move point?!

[Silba]

Yes, they always have and always will, perhaps at Russia's expense. And we're fighting them, arming them with our energy supplies. It's profitable for them to impose sanctions against us, but for some reason, no, maybe we're going down the wrong path, comrades!