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Rising smoke at a Saudi Aramco refinery after an Iranian drone strikeProvided by Yonhap NewsProvided by Yonhap News
The Financial Times reported on the 8th (local time) that an east–west crude pipeline carrying oil from fields in eastern Saudi Arabia to Red Sea ports was struck in a drone attack.
Sources told the FT that one of the pump stations along the 1,200 km pipeline crossing the Saudi interior was hit at roughly 1 p.m. local time on the 28th.
The strike came after the United States and Iran announced a two‑week ceasefire agreement.
One source said the damage was caused by drones and that assessments of the impact are ongoing.
Reuters, citing an industry source, reported that Iran was behind the attack and that additional facilities were targeted.
Aramco, the state‑owned oil company that owns and operates the pipeline, declined to confirm the reports.
With the conflict involving the U.S., Israel and Iran effectively disrupting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Aramco has increasingly used the pipeline to reroute crude to the Red Sea port of Yanbu.
The pipeline can reportedly carry up to 7 million barrels per day, but that is short of Saudi Arabia’s daily production of about 9–10 million barrels.
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Jeong Joo‑hee (gee@yna.co.kr)
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