Explosion at Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG Injures Dozens
Explosion at Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG Injures Dozens What I Cover Tsvetana Paraskova is an energy and commodities journalist who has contributed to Oilprice.com for nearly a decade, covering global energy markets, commodities,… More than fifty people were injured, and 18 were still unaccounted for as of early Monday following an explosion and a fire at Qatar’s key LNG site, Ras Laffan, due to a technical malfunction.
State firm QatarEnergysaidon Monday that there was an operational incident during the start-up of operations at Ras Laffan Industrial City, which resulted in an explosion and fire at the Barzan local gas supply facility in the evening hours of Sunday, June 21, 2026.
Early on Monday local time, the Qatari Ministry of the Interiorsaidthat the total number of injured persons in the incident that occurred at a factory in Ras Laffan Industrial City had reached 54.
The Qatar International Search and Rescue Group of the Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya), in cooperation with Civil Defence teams, is conducting search operations for 18 missing persons, the ministry added.
The explosion “was caused by a technical malfunction during operations at a factory in Ras Laffan Industrial City,” itsaidin an earlier post.
The incident took place just as Qatar is preparing to return a large part of its LNG production to the market following the tentative reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Last week, Qatarstarted to return LNG tankersback to the Middle East in anticipation of the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which would allow the world’s second-biggest LNG exporter to start producing and moving LNG supply again.
Qatar has been eager to restart its LNG exports, after declaring force majeure following Iranian strikes on the Ras Laffan complex in the early days of the war with the United States and Israel.
QatarEnergy, which curtailed LNG output in early March before an LNG facility was hit by Iranian missiles in mid-March, last weektoldits customers that it could restore about 50% of its production capacity within a month after safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz is restored.
Within two months, Qatar could return 80% of its capacity, according to unnamed sources who spoke to Bloomberg.
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