{"id":28400,"date":"2026-03-11T15:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28400"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:20:44","slug":"shell-totalenergies-others-declare-force-majeure-to-their-clients-who-take-lng-from-qatar-sources","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/shell-totalenergies-others-declare-force-majeure-to-their-clients-who-take-lng-from-qatar-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell, TotalEnergies others declare force majeure to their clients who take LNG from Qatar: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Qatar, the world&#8217;s second-largest LNG exporter, announced \u2060a production halt at its 77 million tons \u200bper annum (mtpa) facility last week and declared force majeure \u200bon LNG shipments.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Shell , the world&#8217;s largest LNG trader, declined to comment. TotalEnergies did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment. Both \u200bcompanies have long-term partnerships with QatarEnergy and are partners \u200bin the company&#8217;s massive North Field expansion project which aims to \u200cboost \u2060capacity by 2027. Analysts estimate Shell takes 6.8 million tons per annum (mtpa) of Qatari LNG, while TotalEnergies takes 5.2 mtpa and sells them to their clients worldwide.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20677,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-28400","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Several companies that buy liquefied natural \u200cgas (LNG) from QatarEnergy as portfolio players or offtakers, including Shell, TotalEnergies and some firms in Asia, have declared force majeure \u200bto customers they supply, three sources told Reuters \u200bon Wednesday","published_date":"2026-03-11 00:00:00","news_description":"Several companies that buy liquefied natural \u200cgas (LNG) from QatarEnergy as portfolio players or offtakers, including Shell, TotalEnergies and some firms in Asia, have declared force majeure \u200bto customers they supply, three sources told Reuters \u200bon Wednesday","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28401,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28400\/revisions\/28401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=28400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}