Qatar's Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Co., known as RasGas, said Thursday it has been attacked by a computer virus that has shut down part of its computer system since Aug. 27, but left its production unharmed.
Qatar
's Ras
Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Co., known as RasGas, said Thursday it has been
attacked by a computer virus that has shut down part of its computer system
since Aug. 27, but left its production unharmed.
Desktop computers were affected but operational systems both onsite and
offshore are secure, the world's second-biggest LNG producer said in a statement.
The bug did "not affect production at the
Ras
Laffan
Industrial
City
plant
or scheduled cargoes," it said.
State-giant Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Saudi Aramco, was attacked earlier
this month by a virus that originated from external sources. The attack forced
the world's largest oil producer to isolate all its electronic systems from
outside access, but didn't affect operations.
Aramco said Sunday it has restored all of its main internal network services
and workstations have since been cleaned and restored and, as a precaution,
remote Internet access to online resources was restricted.
It isn't clear whether RasGas' bug was the same virus that attacked Saudi
Aramco.
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