LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - Production from Russia's SakhalinII liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant will halve during aplanned maintenance period from mid-June until mid-July, aspokeswoman for Sakhalin Energy said.
The 9.6-million-tonnes-per-annum project will see a fullproduction stoppage for a few days during which LNG tankerloadings will be uninterrupted, she said.
Sakhalin Energy is a joint venture comprising Russian gasexport monopoly Gazprom, which owns a 50 percentshare, Shell with 27.5 percent, and from Japan Mitsui with 12.5 percent as well as Mitsubishi Corp subsidiary Diamond Gas with 10 percent.
The project exports LNG to countries across Asia.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin in London; additionalreporting by Oleg Vukmanovic in Milan, editing by Jason Neely)