MOSCOW (Reuters) - Domestic gas supplies from Sakhalin-1 project, led by ExxonMobil have been suspended due to the stoppage of a compressor facility, the Russian energy ministry said on Friday.

"We've had an unplanned stoppage of gas flows from the field to the pipeline. The consumers continue taking off gas from the stockpiles, accumulated in the pipeline," a spokesman for Exxon Neftegaz Ltd, the operator of the project, told Reuters.

Sakhalin-1, on Russia's Sakhalin island in the Pacific Ocean, operates under a production sharing agreement struck in the mid-1990s. ExxonMobil has 30 percent of the project, Russia's Rosneft and India's ONGC have 20 percent each, while Japan's SODECO consortium owns 30 percent.

(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Oksana Kobzeva; Editing by Jane Merriman)

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