{"id":342916,"date":"2024-09-13T20:06:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T18:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=342916"},"modified":"2024-09-13T20:06:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T18:06:39","slug":"a-desperate-run-through-the-northeast-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=342916","title":{"rendered":"A Desperate Run Through the Northeast Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

News Brief by Kip Hansen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

News Brief by Kip Hansen \u2014 11 September 2024 \u2014 500 words<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is an interesting story from gCaptain<\/a> \u2013 <\/em><\/strong>\u201cthe world\u2019s leading maritime and offshore website, and we are dedicated to quality news and building an interactive community of maritime professionals.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn Desperate Move Russia Sends First-Ever Conventional LNG Carrier Through Arctic<\/a><\/strong>\u201d by Malte Humpert \u2014 September 8, 2024.  Why is it a \u201cdesperate move\u201d? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a risky move aimed at overcoming Western sanctions Russian LNG<\/a> producer Novatek dispatched the non-ice class LNG<\/a> carrier<\/strong> Everest Energy onto the icy waters of the Northern Sea Route<\/a>. It is the first time a conventional carrier has attempted the route.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe voyage represents a further escalation of the risk profile of Arctic shipping. Everest Energy does not hold a permit by Russia\u2019s Arctic permitting authority, the Northern Sea Route Administration. It is also traveling under a suspended Palauan flag<\/a> with its P&I insurance<\/a> status unknown.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you know the name of a sea going vessel, you can almost always find information on the ship itself, and if you are willing to pay a small fee, its current location.  For the Everest Energy <\/strong>we can look to MarineTraffic.com<\/a>, which reports that, as of 8 days ago, she was underway north of Murmansk.  gCaptain <\/em>reports that she is now in the Kara Sea heading east.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mid-September is certainly the right time to be attempting this passage in a non-ice classed vessel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cEverest Energy is part of Russia\u2019s emerging LNG shadow fleet first reported on by gCaptain in early August<\/a>. It traveled to the Arctic LNG 2<\/strong> project for a second time last week and departed late on September 6. It has since entered the Kara Sea traveling east towards Asia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here the Arctic Sea Ice Concentrations animation for the last 90 days from the National Snow and Ice Data Center<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That sanctioned LNG is now traveling up and over the length of Russia heading for markets in Asia.  There seems there may be substantial ice still in the Eastern Siberian Sea  \u2014 where ice breakers may be needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we have that Arctic Sea Ice animation up, watch the other side, the Canadian Northwest Passage<\/a> \u2013 while listening to the incredible<\/a> Stan Rodgers sing his song by the same title<\/a> [pick you music server below the title].  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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