20/6/2025–|Last update: 18:27 (Mecca time)
A source in the energy sector and a diplomat in the region told Reuters that Qatar has held a crisis this week with major energy companies after the Israeli attacks on a huge gas field in which Qatar participates. And Iran.
Qatari Energy Minister Saad Al -Kaabi, who is also the CEO of Qatar Energy -owned, stated that Doha asked companies to warn governments US The cowboys European countries are among the risks posed by the conflict on gas exports from Qatar The increasing threat to global gas supplies.
Any disruption in LNG operations in Qatar may stop 20% of the global supplies, which is the quantity that it exports Doha One of the largest gas field in the world.
“Qatar is keen on energy that foreign governments are fully aware of the repercussions and the consequences of this situation and any additional escalation of gas production from Qatar,” said the diplomat, who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.
The diplomat stated that Al -Kaabi held this week in meetings Doha With the ambassadors of the countries whose companies are participating in the North Field expansion project of Qatar Energy Company.
Exxon Mobil, Conduko Phillips, British, Italian Eni and Total ENGEREA, have stakes in the North Field expansion project, which Qatar exports is expected to increase 82% in the coming years.
No exports have witnessed Qatar Energy has any interruptions so far, and shipments are being delivered on the date specified for them.
Disratory repercussions
Earlier today, Friday, the Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh confirmed Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani The danger of Israel targeting economic establishments in Iran, warning of its catastrophic repercussions regionally and internationally, especially the stability of energy supplies.
The Qatari Foreign Ministry said, in a statement, that Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman discussed in a telephone conversation with the Norway Foreign Minister Assab Barthe Eddy, the cooperation relations between the two countries and regional files, headed by Israel’s attack on Iran.
The statement pointed out that the Qatari Prime Minister stressed during the call the need to spare civilians the consequences of the war and the commitment not to target civil facilities.
Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman confirmed that the assault of Israel undermines the efforts to achieve peace and threatens to drag the region into a regional war, and expressed condemnation The State of Qatar For repeated Israeli violations and attacks in the region.
Joint
And last Tuesday, Qatar confirmed that the production of gas is stable in the common north field with Iran, and that the supplies are naturally continuing, after it bombed Israel The Iranian part of the field last Saturday, prompting Iran to partially suspend its production after a fire broke out.
Qatar, the third largest exporter of liquefied natural gas in the world yet US Australia, with Iran field South Pars For gas.
“We said about Pars field This is an unaccounted step .. The companies working in the fields are international companies, as there is a global presence, especially in the northern field, so far the gas supply is walking normally.
He added during a weekly press conference in Doha “But the unaccounted targeting is an concern for everyone about gas supplies,” explaining that his country is making all possible contacts with regional and international parties to stop the escalation.