Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Iran struck Qatar's Ras Laffan Industrial City -- the world's largest LNG export hub -- with a barrage of missiles overnight this week, triggering fires across multiple liquefied natural gas facilities and causing what QatarEnergy called "extensive further damage" to a complex already crippled by earlier drone attacks.

A major gas field in Qatar has been hit by missile attacks, causing "extensive damage", the country's state-run energy firm has said.

Each week the world's largest liquefied natural gas plant remains shut, the world loses the equivalent of enough energy to power Sydney's homes for an entire year.