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Providing an update on the damage from the missile attacks on Ras Laffan Industrial City H.E. Minister Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi: The missile attacks reduced Qatar’s LNG export capacity by 17% and caused an estimated loss of $20 billion in annual revenue - Extensive damage to our production facilities will take up to five years to repair and will compel us to declare long-term force majeure QatarEnergy expects the damage to its Ras Laffan Industrial City caused by missile strikes, which occurred on Wednesday 18 March 2026, and in the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2026, to cost about $20 billion a year in lost revenue and to take up to five years to repair, impacting supply to markets in Europe and Asia. Providing an update on the damage to the facilities at Ras Laffan Industrial City, His Excellency Mr. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, the President and CEO of QatarEnergy, said “I am relieved to confirm that no one was injured by these unjustified and senseless attacks, which weren’t just an attack on the State of Qatar but attacks on global energy security and stability. This was an attack on all of us who stand for development and human progress that is sustained by a fair, reliable, and secure access to energy.” The attacks damaged two liquefied natural gas (LNG) producing Trains 4 and 6 totaling 12.8 million tons per annum (MTPA) of production, representing approximately 17% of Qatar’s exports. Train 4 is a joint venture between QatarEnergy (66%) and ExxonMobil (34%), and Train 6 is a joint venture between QatarEnergy (70%) and ExxonMobil (30%). His Excellency Minister Al-Kaabi said: “The damage sustained by the LNG facilities will take between three to five years to repair. The impact is on China, South Korea, Italy and Belgium. This means that we will be compelled to declare force majeure for up to five years on some long-term LNG contracts.” The attacks also targeted the Pearl GTL (Gas-to-Liquids) facility, a production sharing agreement operated by Shell, that converts natural gas into high-quality cleaner burning drop-in fuels and produces base oils used to make premium engine oils and lubricants, and paraffins and waxes. “The damage caused to one of the two trains at Pearl GTL is being assessed and is expected to be offline for a minimum of one year” His Excellency Minister Al-Kaabi added. It should be noted that there will be a loss of associated product production due to this outage as follows: · Condensates: 18.6 million barrels which is around 24% of Qatar’s exports · LPG: 1.281 MT which is around 13% of Qatar’s exports · Naphtha: 0.594 MT which is around 6% of Qatar’s exports · Sulfur: 0.18 MT which is around 6% of Qatar’s exports · Helium: 309.54 MCFA which is around 14% of Qatar’s exports His Excellency the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, the President and CEO of QatarEnergy paid tribute to the Qatari military and security forces and to the energy sector emergency response teams whose courage and extraordinary professionalism ensured the situation was contained quickly and safely. #Qatar

Civilizational reordering happening in real time.

Fertilizers exports from the Gulf to the world are north of 50% of global Fertilizers trade

U.S. LNG is a strategic advantage—generating an average of 273,000 American jobs.   “The U.S. is the world’s largest LNG supplier. With the Trump administration approving more projects...gas exports have surged."thehill.com/opinion/energy…

@archi_tradition Just left there, gorgeous.

Montenegro might be the most underrated country in Europe

The gas processing and compression facilities at Ras Laffan in Qatar feed a number of strategic projects beyond LNG but most importantly the Dolphin pipeline which supplies the UAE with natural gas used in power and water desalination.

A strait closes. Freight rates spike. Insurance reprices. A logistics firm in Baku goes under. Nobody told them it was coming. Aftershock does. aftershock-h94m.polsia.app

QatarEnergy Statement on Missile Attacks on Ras Laffan Industrial City QatarEnergy confirms that Ras Laffan Industrial City this evening has been the subject of missile attacks. Emergency response teams were deployed immediately to contain the resulting fires, as extensive damage has been caused. All personnel have been accounted for and no casualties have been reported at this time. QatarEnergy will continue to communicate the latest available information. #Qatar

thehill.com/opinion/nation… My new piece in @TheHill explains the single organizing logic behind Trump's foreign policy and why the Washington establishment still can't see it. Chaotic is what you call a strategy you don't understand

Powerhouse @EximBankUS Chairman @JJovanovicUSA speaks to the importance of Project Vault and other strategic partnerships at the Indo-Pacific Energy Security Forum in Tokyo, Japan. 🇯🇵 Leading the panel: @POTUS @realDonaldTrump’s NEDC Executive Director, @JarrodAgen! #MAGA 🇺🇸

Cuba Expected to Announce Major Economic Reforms Next Week Allowing Exiles to Own Private Firms on Island — Miami Herald

Massive energy deal after deal was struck here in Tokyo this weekend at the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council led forum. $50+ BILLION in new Indo-Pacific investments secured with U.S. companies, driven through President Trump’s leadership.

@CNN Importing migrants from less developed countries who may or may not share your values and even ideas on what constitutes your vision of civilization, whilst banning those who hold all of the aforementioned and your heritage is peak idiocy for a nation.

The announcement will be a devastating blow for those who believed the court would uphold Italy’s 160-year history of citizenship by descent, or ius sanguinis. cnn.it/3PBZRVR

@IterIntellectus Wild

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

En la mañana del 14 de marzo de 2019, la bandera estadounidense fue arriada por última vez en la Embajada de los Estados Unidos en Caracas. Esta mañana, 14 de marzo de 2026, a la misma hora, mi equipo y yo izamos la bandera de los Estados Unidos—exactamente siete años después de haber sido retirada. Ha comenzado una nueva era para las relaciones entre los Estados Unidos y Venezuela. Seguimos con Venezuela. – LFD

Some people are offended by the opening words my former Solicitor General uses, but as he points out, you should be more offended by the underlying law here that forces men into a female only small business spa and the liberal Judges who didn’t protect the female owner.

I’m looking for even ONE Virginia Dem who has called out jihadist radicalism in the last 24 hours. Not Spanberger, Warner, or Jones. Has any one?

@business Imagine working your ass off for decades to hear that some dude who never worked in his life and got to the country 10minutes ago is going to confiscate half of your lifetime earnings from your family.

Zohran Mamdani is proposing to raise NY's estate tax to 50% and have it kick in at $750,000 instead of more than $7 million bloomberg.com/news/articles/…