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 disabled the entire production capacity of Qatar, not just part of one facility.
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?
FYI Qatar is fucking tiny, its basically just one big city with a bunch of desert next to it. There arent necessarily duplicates for this kind of infrastructure.
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.
Well, there can be some redundancy, and some parts are harder to replace than others. Just going off of of what I know, I’d target a big pipe or heating/cooling systems. A distillation tower or single chemical reactor could be switched around.
So, for two drones to “halt 20% of global LNG production”, as the headline claims, they would have had to disabled the entire production capacity of Qatar, not just part of one facility.
I think the point of the article is they DON’T have to do that to impact all of it?
FYI Qatar is fucking tiny, its basically just one big city with a bunch of desert next to it. There arent necessarily duplicates for this kind of infrastructure.
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.
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.
Well, there can be some redundancy, and some parts are harder to replace than others. Just going off of of what I know, I’d target a big pipe or heating/cooling systems. A distillation tower or single chemical reactor could be switched around.
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 didn’t see that it’s likely that Iran wouldn’t target their strikes. They clearly have the capability. Hit the targets that maximize disruption.
When I said processing facility I don’t mean the parking lot or the offices, but the industrial part.