{"id":104633,"date":"2026-03-19T13:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=104633"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:35:49","slug":"major-blow-to-energy-sector-as-qatar-gas-facility-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/major-blow-to-energy-sector-as-qatar-gas-facility-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Major blow to energy sector as Qatar gas facility hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA: Qatar has said that Iranian missile attacks have caused severe damage to gas facilities in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/news\/qatar-diplomacy-stance-doha-warns-it-will-respond-if-any-new-attack-happens\/\">Ras Laffan Industrial City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Qatar\u2019s Foreign Ministry, the Iranian attack sparked a fire that caused significant damage to a key gas facility. However, Qatar Energy and the Interior Ministry said the fire had been brought under control and no casualties were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar Energy later said in a statement that other LNG facilities were also targeted, causing further fire and damage.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar has declared the attack a clear violation of its sovereignty and a threat to national security and has declared the military and security personnel of the Iranian embassy \u201cpersona non grata\u201d and ordered them to leave the country within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes as Iran has threatened to target oil and gas facilities in Gulf countries following its attack on Israel\u2019s South Pars gas field.<\/p>\n<p>Ras Laffan Industrial City is the world&#8217;s largest LNG production center, providing about 20 percent of the world&#8217;s gas supply, so there are fears that this attack will also have an impact on the global energy market.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, French President Macron has contacted the Emir of Qatar and the US President and appealed to stop attacks on energy and civilian facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA: Qatar has said that Iranian missile attacks have caused severe damage to gas facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City. According to Qatar\u2019s Foreign Ministry, the Iranian attack sparked a fire that caused significant damage to a key gas facility. However, Qatar Energy and the Interior Ministry said the fire had been brought under control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":104634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38227],"class_list":["post-104633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ras-laffan-gas-facility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104635,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104633\/revisions\/104635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}