Delays in securing access to long-term supplies of third party gas are slowing plans to add a third liquefaction train at the Sakhalin 2 project in Russia's far east, writes Vladimir Afanasiev.

Operator Sakhalin Energy Investments — headed by Russian gas monpoly Gazprom, with Shell as its main partner — achieved a new milestone last year by increasing liquefied natural gas production from the two existing trains to 11.5