Overview
- Qatar’s prime minister says QatarEnergy has mobilized teams and expects undamaged sections of the Ras Laffan export complex to resume normal LNG flows within weeks while damaged units remain offline.
- Two liquefaction trains were hit in earlier conflict-related strikes and now account for about one-fifth of Ras Laffan’s production capacity, leaving that portion offline and needing longer repairs.
- Doha frames safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz as the precondition for the restart and is urging a direct Washington–Tehran hotline so Iran can verify threats to ships before they sail.
- The planned partial restart is expected to reduce pressure on global gas supplies and help ease elevated prices in Europe and Asia that followed the disruptions.
- Full recovery of the damaged trains will require capital‑intensive engineering work and weeks to months of repairs, and customers and shippers continue to face contract uncertainty and logistical limits until security improves.