European purchases of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia’s Yamal project totalled around €7.9 billion between January and September 2026, according to an analysis by Urgewald reported by Euronews on 9 October. During the same period, European Union ports received 85% of the Arctic project’s recorded shipments.
Urgewald compiled the figures using data from analytics firm Kpler. According to the numbers cited by Euronews, purchases were worth approximately €7.88 billion, while European ports received 12.18 million tonnes of LNG from Yamal. Imports rose by 9.5% compared with the first nine months of the previous year.
Deliveries continued towards the end of the period covered by the analysis. In September, the EU received 792,440 tonnes of gas from the project — slightly more than a year earlier. The figures cover Yamal alone: they are not a measure of all Russian gas exports or all EU purchases of Russian raw materials.
Urgewald calls for restrictions on support for Arctic tanker fleet
The organisation is calling for additional restrictions on the infrastructure and services supporting Arc7 ice-class LNG carriers, which transport liquefied gas from the Arctic. Its proposal therefore focuses not only on gas purchases themselves, but also on the support that makes those shipments possible. This is a proposal from Urgewald, not an announcement that the EU has adopted new measures.
Sebastian Rötters of Urgewald, cited by Euronews, says a large share of the project’s export capacity is tied to long-term contracts. The figures show the scale of European purchases from Yamal, but do not establish how much of that supply could be redirected to other buyers if restrictions were introduced. Nor do they provide a basis for determining how such measures would affect European gas prices.
