Yamal LNG project was proposed when the company with the same name and controlled by Gennady Timchenko and Pyotr Kolbin got a license for the Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye gas field in 2005.

The loading was ceremonially launched by president Vladimir Putin in the presence of Saudi Arabia's energy minister Khalid al-Falih.

[17] The plant is expected to produce a total of 926 billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas from the South Tambey field and is considered by some to be the 'crown jewel' of the Northern Sea Route.

[19] The Yamal LNG plant will have three trains with total capacity of 16.5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year when fully operational.

[28] Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering is contracted to build up to sixteen Arc7 ice-class double acting gas tankers for the project.

[31] General director of the company was Gleb Luxemburg [21] and from September 2014 Evgeny Kot has been appointed the CEO of Yamal LNG.

[34] The tankers were designed in Finland by Aker Arctic Technology Inc.[35] and built at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea.

[36] The first icebreaker, Christophe de Margerie,[37] traversed from Norway to South Korea across the Northern Sea Route in 19 days in August 2017.

[38] When ice precludes shipping along the Northern Sea Route, then the Fluxys terminal at Zeebrugge, Belgium, will serve Russia as the LNG port for the Asia-Pacific region.

Although these ships have been serviced at Honningsvåg, Norway, this will be phased out and future LNG tanker shipments along the Northern Sea Route may occur between Murmansk and Kamchatka in Russia coastal waters.