SABETTA - French oil and gas group Total believes there is growing demand for liquefied natural gas on the spot market and that it will have no problem selling LNG from its Yamal LNG plant in Russia, Total's chief executive said on Tuesday.

Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne said Total would start sales under a long-term contract from the third stage of the Yamal LNG project in line with the company's initial plans.

(Reporting by Katya Golubkova; Writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Vladimir Soldatkin) ((Tom.Balmforth@thomsonreuters.com;))