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QatarEnergy said an “operational incident” on Sunday at Ras Laffan, site of the country’s core LNG processing operations, resulted in an explosion and fire at the area’s Barzan gas plant.
The Qatari energy producer said the fire was brought under control but it did not indicate whether the explosion had caused any damage to the plant, which supplies gas to the domestic market.
Qatar’s interior ministry said several people were injured due to the explosion, which it attributed to a “technical accident”. It said there was no leak that “poses a threat to public safety”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

QatarEnergy said an “operational incident” on Sunday at Ras Laffan, site of the country’s core LNG processing operations, resulted in an explosion and fire at the area’s Barzan gas plant.The Qatari energy producer said the fire was brought under control but it did not indicate whether the explosion had caused any damage to the plant, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nQatarEnergy says 'operational incident' causes explosion at Ras Laffan - Metro Plus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/06\/22\/qatarenergy-says-operational-incident-causes-explosion-at-ras-laffan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"QatarEnergy says 'operational incident' causes explosion at Ras Laffan - 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