DRAGON at Work – the Type 45 Destroyer DRAGON, on a maiden deployment “East of Suez” has been featured carrying out what must be a regular routine, helping the shepherd a gigantic gas tanker through one of the world’s most important ‘choke points’ through the narrows between the Arabian Sea and Gulf during an exercise to hone protecting sea trade.   Qatar of course in the source of much of Britain’s natural gas supply and this will be the case for many many years ahead.   The DRAGON linked up with a cluster of British and American vessels for the exercise

Qatar is home to the third largest reserves of natural gas in the world – its has one seventh of the globe’s known resources and the UK consumes over 90 billion cubic metres of natural gas every year – roughly half of it coming by sea, with a quarter of it imported through the terminal in Milford Haven.