US Slaps Sanctions on Chinese Yard Wison For Supplying Technology to Arctic LNG 2

By Malte Humpert (gCaptain) – Time has run out for Chinese technology provider Zhoushan Wison Offshore and Marine, a key partner in Novatek’s Yamal LNG and Arctic LNG 2 projects. The company’s brazen scheme to deliver a large power plant from its Zhoushan yard to the Russian Arctic last fall has now garnered the attention of U.S. officials, resulting in sanctions against Wison and several vessel operators.

gCaptain reported on Wison’s efforts and for several months tracked three heavy lift vessels, Ocean 28, Hunter Star, and Nan Feng Zhi Xing, as they struggled through early winter sea ice. With the help of Russian nuclear icebreakers the ships delivered the power plant modules to Arctic LNG 2 by the middle of November 2024. 

But Wison is not the only high-profile target of this final sanctions package days before the end of the Biden administration; the U.S .Departments of State and the Treasury went all out. In addition to more than 180 oil and LNG tankers of the so-called shadow fleet, the late…