Saad Al-Kaabi, Qatar's Minister of State for Energy Affairs and Qatar Energy CEO, confirmed the death of 13 workers and 66 injuries in the explosion at its Ras Laffan industrial complex on June 21.
He said the company has procedures in place to support victims and their relatives both inside and outside Qatar.
Addressing the media a day after the incident, Al-Kaabi said QatarEnergy is assessing the full extent of damage, adding that the immediate priority remains the safety of personnel, environmental protection and stabilisation of the affected site.
He said the company had yet to determine the scale of the physical damage or the financial cost of the accident, noting that a comprehensive technical assessment would be required before repair schedules and expenditure estimates could be announced.
“First we have to assess what the damage is, which will take some time, and then after assessing the damage we put a plan on rectifying it and the timeline,” he told the press conference in Doha.
The explosion occurred in a gas processing facility within the Ras Laffan industrial complex rather than at one of the liquefied natural gas trains previously affected by separate incidents. Al-Kaabi stressed that the latest event was an industrial accident rather than an act of sabotage.
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