France's Total to join Russia's Arctic LNG-2 - Kremlin

MOSCOW (Reuters) - French energy company Total <TOTF.PA> plans to sign a deal on joining Russia's Arctic LNG-2 project during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum this week, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.

Total has about a 20 percent stake in Novatek <NVTK.MM>, the private Russian natural gas producer running the Arctic LNG-2 project.

(Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova; Writing by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Vladimir Soldatkin)