MILAN, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Russia's Sakhalin II liquefiednatural gas (LNG) export plant is holding a tender to sell sixcargoes per year from 2016 through 2018, trade sources said.
The closing date of the tender, one of Sakhalin II's largestin recent times, could not be immediately confirmed.
Sakhalin Energy is a joint venture comprising Russian gasexport monopoly Gazprom, which owns a 50 percent sharein the LNG plant, Shell with 27.5 percent, Japan Mitsui with 12.5 percent and Mitsubishi Corp subsidiary Diamond Gas with 10 percent.
(Reporting by Oleg Vukmanovic; Editing by Pravin Char)