India says attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure ‘deeply disturbing’, urges immediate halt

This photo shows QatarEnergy's operating facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City on March 2, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

India condemned recent attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure, calling them deeply disturbing and urging an immediate halt. Iran struck Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG facility, escalating tensions and causing fires, further destabilizing global energy supplies and prices.

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India on Tuesday expressed concern over recent attacks on energy infrastructure in the Gulf region, calling them “deeply disturbing” and urging an immediate halt.

In a statement issued in response to media queries, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said India has consistently opposed targeting civilian infrastructure, including energy facilities.

“India had previously called for the avoidance of targeting civilian infrastructure, including energy infrastructure, across the region. Recent attacks against energy installations in different locations across this region are therefore deeply disturbing and only serve to further destabilise an already uncertain energy scenario for the whole world. Such attacks are unacceptable and need to cease.”

The remarks came as Iran attacked Qatar's huge Ras Laffan LNG facility in retaliation for an Israeli strike on its South Pars gas field.

Trump, whose country started the war alongside Israel with their attack on Iran on February 28, said Washington did not know about the strike on South Pars.

But he warned the United States would itself "blow up" the Iranian gas field if Tehran did not stop attacking Qatar.

Iran's military responded Thursday with defiance, saying it had been a "major mistake" to hit South Pars, which supplies around 70 percent of the country's domestic natural gas.

Qatar is one of the world's top liquefied natural gas producers, alongside the United States, Australia and Russia, and its Ras Laffan facility is the world's largest LNG hub.

It has been repeatedly targeted by Iran since the war began, and state-run QatarEnergy said Thursday that two waves of Iranian strikes had caused "sizeable fires and extensive further damage" to several LNG facilities.

Energy prices had already spiralled since tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which normally carries a fifth of the world's oil and LNG, was brought to a near standstill by the threat of Iranian attacks.

But analysts said the targeting of energy production facilities, not just storage depots and transport, is on a different scale.