An explosion and fire occurred on June 21 at the Barzan gas supply facility in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar, during start-up operations. The incident injured 54 people and left 18 missing, with authorities attributing it to a technical accident and stating the fire is under control with no public safety threat. The facility, majority-owned by QatarEnergy with a minority ExxonMobil stake, has a capacity of 1.4 billion cubic feet per day and supplies pipeline gas to local industries and power generation.