Several oil facilities in Saudi Arabia have been attacked by Houthi rebels. Bloomberg reports this with reference to the country’s Ministry of Energy.
An oil storage tank at an export terminal in the port of Ras Tannura on the Persian Gulf coast, which is considered the most protected oil facility in the world, was also raided from the sea.
According to the Saudi Ministry of Energy, the terminal was attacked by unmanned aerial vehicles. In addition, a fragment of a rocket fell near a residential complex where employees of the national oil company Saudi Aramco live. A ministry spokesman said that no one was hurt as a result of both attacks, no damage was done to the country’s oil infrastructure either, RBC writes.
Prior to this, the command of the Riyadh-led military coalition announced that they had intercepted missiles and drones with bombs launched from the territories of neighboring Yemen controlled by the Houthis.
It is noted that the attack on Ras Tannura took place the day after a massive Saudi Arabian attack on Houthi targets in Sana’a and other provinces of Yemen.
Bloomberg writes that the current attack on Saudi Aramco was the most serious since September 2019, when the Houthis fired on the company’s key oil refinery and two fields using drones and missiles.