Dwelling Fossil Vitality Investigation into tragic incident ongoing: 13 ineffective, 66 injured in explosion and fire at QatarEnergy’s gas asset
June 24, 2026,
by
Melisa Cavcic
Qatar’s utter-owned oil and gas enormous QatarEnergy has confirmed the launch of a probe into an explosion and fire incident that took place at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) manufacturing and export hub, in which extra than one workers lost their lives and sustained injuries.
An operational incident took utter at some point of the open-up of operations at the QatarEnergy LNG-operated Ras Laffan Industrial City, which resulted in an explosion and fire at the Barzan native gas offer facility in the evening hours of Sunday, June 21, 2026. In maintaining with the incident, emergency response groups were deployed as we advise to comprise the fireplace, which changed into introduced under wait on watch over.
QatarEnergy shed extra light on the tragic incident the next day, confirming the deaths of 13 participants. The company defined that 66 extra workers were injured and receiving scientific medication, none of whom are believed to be in a life-threatening situation.
The Persian Gulf utter’s enormous extended its heartfelt condolences to the households, friends, and colleagues of participants that lost their lives, whereas praying for the swift restoration of these injured and pledging its chunky give a enhance to to those plagued by the tragedy.
The participants that lost their lives in this incident are of Indian and Pakistani nationalities, whereas the injured are of Qatari, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Kenyan, Ghanaian, Tanzanian, Nigerian, and Nepalese nationalities.
“QatarEnergy would savor to stress that this changed into an operational accident and no longer sabotage or antagonistic in nature,” the firm underlined, whereas mentioning that Barzan manufacturing changed into deliberately entirely stopped since December 2025 attributable to urgent repairs necessities, and changed into first restarted two days sooner than the incident.
The company’s emergency response crew and Qatar’s Civil Defense all of sudden and entirely extinguished the fireplace onsite. Work is underway to assess the harm to Barzan and neighboring facilities. The conducting processes sour gas from wells on the North field offshore Qatar, which is introduced to the unique onshore gas plant at Ras Laffan Industrial City.
Whereas elaborating that QatarEnergy’s LNG facilities, Ras Laffan Port, assorted logistics operations, and its export capabilities remain unaffected in the aftermath of this explosion and fire, the firm highlights that a chunky investigation has begun to in discovering out the trigger of the incident.
Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Qatar’s Minister of Negate for Vitality Affairs, President and CEO of QatarEnergy, visited the Embassy of the Republic of India in Doha to present condolences on the tragic lack of 12 Indian nationals in the incident in the Barzan gas offer facility in Ras Laffan.
Expressing team spirit with the participants of India, QatarEnergy’s CEO acknowledged: “The lack of innocent lives is a tragedy that touches all of us. Our tips and prayers are with the households and members of the family of participants that lost their lives at some point of this tragic incident. We pray for the fleet restoration for folks who were injured.”
The company printed that one Pakistani nationwide changed into amongst the 13 participants that lost their lives in the wretched explosion and fire at the Barzan native gas offer facility at Ras Laffan Industrial City; thus, Al-Kaabi additionally visited the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Doha to present condolences.
After the U.S. and Israel launched a navy campaign against Iran, which answered with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, QatarEnergy halted LNG manufacturing and associated merchandise at a few of its assets and followed the stir with a declaration of power majeure to its LNG traders.
Iran additionally implemented attacks on oil and gas facilities across the Gulf assign, including the Ras Laffan Industrial City on March 18, in remark response to Israel’s assault on its enormous South Pars gas field, which is belief as the North field on Qatar’s facet.
The assault triggered predominant harm to the Pearl GTL (gas-to-liquids) facility and changed into followed by additional missile strikes in the early hours of March 19, 2026, on several of QatarEnergy’s LNG facilities, which suffered “sizeable fires and intensive additional harm.”
