QatarEnergy has ceased production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and associated products due to military attacks on QatarEnergy’s operating facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City and Mesaieed Industrial City, the company said.
Iranian attacks have knocked out 17% of Qatar's liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity, causing an estimated $20 billion in lost annual revenue and threatening supplies to Europe and Asia, QatarEnergy's CEO and state minister for energy affairs told Reuters.
QatarEnergy confirmed that following the attack on Ras Laffan Industrial City on March 18, 2026, which caused significant damage to the Pearl GTL facility, additional missile strikes targeted several LNG facilities in the early hours of March 19, 2026.
QatarEnergy has offered up five slots for unloading, storage and regasification of liquefied natural gas at Belgium's Zeebrugge terminal for the month of April, three industry sources said, indicating its facilities could remain shut down for a longer period.
Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co is close to buying a strategic stake in the second phase of QatarEnergy's massive $17.5 billion North Field project as it seeks to secure stable liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply, said report, citing sources.
Jera, Japan’s largest power generation company and a global energy leader, has taken a major step to strengthen Japan’s energy security by signing a long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with QatarEnergy, alongside a new emergency supply cooperation framework involving Japan’s government.
QatarEnergy has signed a 20-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Malaysia's Petronas LNG (PLL), a subsidiary of Petronas, the first long-term LNG supply agreement between the two companies.
Saad Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, the President and CEO of QatarEnergy, said Qatar continue to believe in gas as the energy of the future and that increasing demand will continue to be driven by global economic growth and other factors like artificial intelligence and data centres.
QatarEnergy has awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the onshore LNG plant of the North Field West (NFW) project, a key component of the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) expansion.
QatarEnergy celebrated the graduation of a new group of Qatari nationals who have completed their academic studies and vocational programmes and have joined QatarEnergy and other energy sector companies.
