Bahrain yesterday expressed full solidarity and deepest condolences to Qatar following an explosion that killed 13 people at a factory in the Ras Laffan Industrial City.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry extended Bahrain’s sympathies to the families of the victims and wished for a swift recovery for those injured.
Reaffirming Bahrain’s support for the Qatari government and its people, the ministry expressed full confidence in the ability of Qatar’s authorities to manage the incident, contain its impact and ensure public safety.
It wished the nation continued security and prosperity.
Earlier, Qatar’s Energy Minister Saad Al Kaabi said 13 people were killed and dozens injured in the explosion at a gas processing facility inside Ras Laffan industrial complex.
Liquefied natural gas facilities were not impacted by the explosion, he said.
State-owned QatarEnergy is working to restart LNG operations at Ras Laffan, which were halted after an Iranian attack in March.
Authorities said a ‘technical accident’ occurred at the Barzan local gas processing facility on Sunday evening. The blast was heard in parts of Bahrain, as reported by the GDN.
Plant production had been completely stopped since December 2025 due to urgent maintenance requirements and it was first restarted only two days ago, Al Kaabi told reporters.
The last comparable disaster was a 2004 explosion at Algeria’s Skikda LNG complex that killed 27 people.
None of the 66 people reported injured and receiving medical treatment after the Barzan explosion was in a life-threatening condition, Al Kaabi said.
The people killed were Indian and Pakistani, he added.
QatarEnergy has started a full investigation into the cause of the accident, which Al Kaabi stressed was not sabotage or hostile in nature and posed no risk to the environment.
“QatarEnergy LNG facilities, Ras Laffan port and other logistical operations in Ras Laffan remain unaffected as a result of this explosion and fire and that will not affect in any way our export capabilities,” he added.
Qatar has come under repeated Iranian missile and drone attacks during the Iran war, which trapped around 20 per cent of global LNG supply in the Gulf before some shipments resumed recently.
The vast Ras Laffan LNG production and export site had annual production capacity of 77 million metric tonnes before an Iranian strike in early March damaged two trains, cutting 17pc of production.
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