Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed
to the Yamal Peninsula
to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese
oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported
oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go
to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it
to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo
to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties
to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot
to China
possible, as sanctions forced Russia
to find an
alternative source of investment and technology.
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