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World’s Top LNG Buyer Doesn’t See Qatar Supply Coming Back Soon

Bloomberg2 October 2026, 02:21 UTCQatar

The head of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas buyer expects disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz to persist, further curtailing flows from a region that accounted for about a fifth of global supply before the Middle East war.

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