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Gas Prices in Asia and Europe Jump as Qatar Extends LNG Force Majeure

Oilprice.com Trade press Published 28th August 2026 Global

What the source reported

Source-reported

Natural gas prices in Asia and Europe jumped on Friday as the market digested reports that Qatar has extended the force majeure on its LNG deliveries into November amid still blocked transits through the Strait of Hormuz. In Asia, the spot LNG price jumped to $23.388 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) on Friday, traders told Bloomberg. The spot LNG price has been hovering at four-year high levels this week, as supply has tightened with the absence of Qatari term deliveries since the Iran war began. In addition, utilities in Asia have been…

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Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
Published
28th August 2026
Original report
oilprice.com

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Commodities & Input Costs
Geography
Global
Organisations
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Collected
28th August 2026 · 18:39

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 3 · Material
Confidence 3 · Moderate

Initial Significance Material (48.0/100). Strongest contributor: Likely Event Severity (15.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Entity Criticality (4.0/20 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (48.75/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).

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Entity Criticality