Qatar has suspended liquefied natural gas (LNG) production after two Iranian drones struck energy facilities operated by state-owned QatarEnergy.
  • Null User Object@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    2 hours ago

    The Qatari government said two Iranian drones hit a QatarEnergy facility and that authorities are assessing the scale of damage. The country’s LNG production accounts for roughly 20% of global supply.

    So, for two drones to “halt 20% of global LNG production”, as the headline claims, they would have had to disable the entire production capacity of the entire country of Qatar, not just part of one facility.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      142·
      2 hours ago

      So, for two drones to “halt 20% of global LNG production”, as the headline claims, they would have had to disable the entire production capacity of the entire country of Qatar

      I think the point of the article is they DON’T have to do that to impact all of it?

      Qatar has suspended liquefied natural gas (LNG) production after two Iranian drones struck energy facilities operated by state-owned QatarEnergy.

      It already happened?

    • 1dalm@lemmings.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 hours ago

      The drones would not likely need to take out the whole facility. If the drones were particularly targeted, which they almost certainly were, then I can imagine they could take out a particular critical piece of infrastructure that could cause significant disruption.

      But yeah, 20% is a lot for sure.

      • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
        4·
        1 hour ago

        I don’t think they need to be particularly targeted, any part of the processing facility that is damaged is going to stop production until fixed.

        • 1dalm@lemmings.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          They have to be targeted. They wouldn’t shut the whole facility down if the bomb landed in the remote employee parking lot.

          But I don’t see that it’s likely that Iran wouldn’t target their strikes. They clearly have the capability. Hit the targets that maximize disruption.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      43 minutes ago

      I wish LNG was that simple. Most of qatar LNG production comes from dedicated natural gas fields(the North field) but they also have quite a bit co-extracted with oil. That requires big facilities to compress it. Without them they’ll just flare it like they did in the past and dump the CO2 right into the atmosphere with no gain.