Russia supplies gas to China despite U.S. sanctions – Bloomberg

Bloomberg reported this in an article, according to Ukrinform.

The Valera vessel, which loaded a shipment from Gazprom PJSC's Portovaya facility on the Baltic Sea in October, arrived at the Beihai import terminal in southern China on Monday. Both Valera and Portovaya were sanctioned by Joe Biden's administration to thwart Russia's plans to boost LNG exports..

China, which doesn't recognize the unilateral sanctions, has increasingly bought blacklisted Russian gas over the last few months, ratcheting up energy ties between the two countries. Beijing has also ignored a broader push by US President Donald Trump to halt sales of Russian oil, which will likely be a key part of trade negotiations between Washington and New Delhi this week.

Russia has two relatively small LNG export facilities on the Baltic Sea, with the Novatek PJSC-led Vysotsk plant also blacklisted by the US. Another sanctioned Russian plant, the Arctic LNG 2 site in Siberia, started delivering fuel to Beihai in late August.

Shipping companies report that total Russian LNG shipments to China, including from unsanctioned plants, rose about 14% from September through November from the same period a year earlier.

According to the media outlet, if unloaded, Valera would be the 19th shipment of LNG into China from a blacklisted Russian plant since August, the data shows.

In mid-October, satellite images showed a tanker that loaded at Portovaya transferring fuel into another vessel registered to a Hong Kong-based company near Malaysia. That ship, known as CCH Gas, has been sending out false location signals, and was spotted by satellites near China last month. It isn't clear where it is currently located.

As Ukrinform reported, Chinese refineries have stopped taking Russian oil shipments after the U.S. and other countries placed leading Russian oil producers and some of their clients on the sanctions list.