QatarEnergy announced that several liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City were subjected to missile attacks early Thursday morning, causing fires and further serious damage, in addition to the previous attack on Ras Laffan Industrial City on Wednesday, which severely damaged a gas-to-liquids conversion plant.
QatarEnergy explained in a statement that emergency response teams were immediately deployed to contain the damage, and no injuries resulted from the attacks.
"Emergency response teams were deployed immediately to contain the resulting damage with no reported casualties," it said in a statement.
The Qatar Ministry of Interior also provided an update:
The Civil Defense has fully contained two out of three fires in the Ras Laffan Industrial Area with no injuries reported. Cooling and securing operations at the sites are ongoing, while the Explosives Group of the Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya) is carrying out its tasks in…
— Ministry of Interior - Qatar (@MOI_QatarEn) March 19, 2026
This comes hours after Iran's huge Pars gas field was hit on Wednesday in a major escalation in the US-Israeli war that sent oil prices shooting higher, with Tehran retaliating against Qatar and also fired missiles at Saudi Arabia.
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