During a press conference, Balcazar added that the company expects natural gas supply to reopen on Saturday and for distribution to be normalized on Sunday.
Operations are currently continuing at the Mina West 2 well to prepare for the start of production. Officials expect this field to come online before the end of the current year.
He added that two of the tankers scheduled to deliver cargoes to Europe next week are unlikely to return to QatarEnergy service soon, suggesting a rapid restart of production appears increasingly unlikely.