Doha: According to Al Jazeera, Qatar's Energy Minister and QatarEnergy CEO HE Eng. Saad bin Sherida al-Kaabi told Reuters that the company’s planned North Field expansion project could be delayed by over a year due to Iran’s attack on its Ras Laffan plant.
Irans's attack did not result in deaths or injuries due to a prior decision to evacuate 10,000 workers within 24 hours.
Qatar was able to avoid any fatalities at the attacked Ras Laffan site because of its quick evacuation of personnel, he added.
“It wasn’t easy to pull everybody from offshore – you know 10,000 people evacuated in 24 hours – and shut down all the operations,” he said. “I’m so glad we have zero injuries, zero fatalities. It is because of that decision we took.”
QatarEnergy CEO HE Saad al-Kaabi said he repeatedly warned any attack on Iran’s energy sites could put Qatar’s own gas infrastructure in danger.
“I was always warning, talking to executives from oil and gas that are partnered with us, talking to the US secretary of energy, to warn him of that consequence and that that could be detrimental to us,” al-Kaabi told Reuters news agency.
