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Qatar extends LNG force majeure amid Hormuz disruptions

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26h
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Outlets
9
Regions
4
Countries
7
Languages
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Bloomberg United States · English 28 Sept, 08:08 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Magyar (1) · العربية (1) · فارسی (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 27 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Bloomberg, 28 Sept, 08:08 UTC.
  2. Second region: International, with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
  3. Second country: United Arab Emirates, with The National.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 28 Sept, 11:00 UTC.
  5. Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

27 of 27 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 2 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

23%22%22%22%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 1 country · 23%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
  • International 2 outlets · 22%

First movers

  1. Bloomberg 28 Sept, 08:08 UTC
  2. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed +2h 51m
  3. The National +3h 43m
  4. INTLAl-Monitor +3h 50m
  5. OilPrice.com +6h 21m

Last to join

  1. HVG 29 Sept, 11:08 UTC
  2. Prothom Alo 29 Sept, 05:31 UTC
  3. Shargh 28 Sept, 21:21 UTC
  4. The Business Standard 28 Sept, 15:55 UTC
  5. OilPrice.com 28 Sept, 14:30 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Bangladesh. Europe 2: Hungary, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Iran, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, English, Persian, Hungarian.
Timeline
Earliest article Bloomberg, 28 Sept 2026, 08:08 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 08:50 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 11:08 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Middle East, Qatar. Topic Energy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
28 Sept 2026 176 5.92 7 6 7 6 3.3

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 28 Sept, 08:50 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 11:08 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • Bloomberg United States 28 Sept, 08:08 UTC
    Qatar Extends LNG Force Majeure as Hormuz Disruptions Drag On

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • Prothom Alo Bangladesh 29 Sept, 05:31 UTC
    QatarEnergy suspends LNG supply to Bangladesh till November
  • The Business Standard Bangladesh 28 Sept, 15:55 UTC
    Qatar extends force majeure notices on LNG supply to Edison, Asian clients including Bangladesh

Europe 2 outlets

  • HVG Hungary 29 Sept, 11:08 UTC
    Gázpiaci válság: Katar újból meghosszabbította az LNG-export felfüggesztését
  • OilPrice.com United Kingdom 28 Sept, 14:30 UTC
    Qatar Extends LNG Force Majeure as Hormuz Crisis Drags On

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Shargh Iran 28 Sept, 21:21 UTC
    زیان سنگین اقتصاد قطر
  • The National United Arab Emirates 28 Sept, 11:51 UTC
    Qatar extends LNG force majeure as Hormuz disruption threatens winter supply

International 2 outlets

  • INTLAl-Monitor International 28 Sept, 11:59 UTC
    Qatar's extended LNG force majeure prolongs supply cuts to Europe, Asia
  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International 28 Sept, 11:00 UTC
    قطر تمدّد القوة القاهرة على الغاز الطبيعي المُسال شهراً إضافياً
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