Speaking on the sidelines of the World Gas Conference (WGC) in Paris, the head of the Russian state giant's far eastern projects department Viktor Timoshilov suggested that it will make more economic sense for Sakhalin 1 and Gazprom-led Sakhalin 2 consortia to join efforts in marketing the Sakhalin 1 gas output, rather than to keep wrangling.

Existing reserves of Sakhalin 2's chief gas asset, the Lunskoye field, are not sufficient to justify the construction of the planned third train, with annual capacity of 5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas at the consortium's existing plant in the port of Prigorodnoye in the south of Sakhalin.

Rosneft