Largest Saudi Oil Facilities On Fire After Drone Strikes

by Ritu Versha 4 years ago Views 2419

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Drone strikes, claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, raged at the world's largest oil processing facility and a major oilfield run by the state-owned oil giant, Saudi Aramco, early on Saturday. In what the Houthi rebels described as one of their largest-ever operations inside the kingdom, the attacks sparked a huge fire before dawn at a processor vital to global energy supplies.

The fires are now under control at both facilities, however, it was not clear if there were any injuries in the attacks, nor whether they would affect the country's oil production, state media said.


"At 04:00 (01:00 GMT), the industrial security teams of Aramco started dealing with fires at two of its facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais as a result of... drones," the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

A military spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi rebels, Yahia Sarie, said that they had sent 10 drones to attack the Abqaiq oil processing facility and the Khurais oil field, adding that the attacks by the rebels against the kingdom would only get worse if the war in Yemen continues. 

Online videos apparently shot in Abqaiq included the sound of gunfire in the background. Smoke rose over the skyline and flames could be seen a distance away from the facility.

Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq facility is the largest crude oil stabilisation plant in the world. It is thought to be able to process up to 7 million barrels of crude a day.

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