Al Jazeera received satellite images showing the damage to Saudi Aramco's No. 8 oil pumping station, which was hit by a US-made al-Houthi aircraft attack in Yemen on Tuesday.
The images taken one day after the attack show damage to station No. 8 in the East-West pipeline, which carries Saudi oil from fields in the eastern region to the port of Yanbu on the west coast of the kingdom.
The images also show a fracture in a four-meter-long oil pipeline and an oil barrage covering an area of 1,000 square meters the day after the attack. The pictures reveal that the attack targeted the pipe directly and accurately.
The Al-Houthi group announced last Tuesday the attacks of seven aircraft on vital installations in the provinces of Dodami and Afif in Riyadh, and said the attacks led to a complete halt to the pipeline in that area. The Saudi government acknowledged the attacks and said they were not only targeting the kingdom but also securing energy supplies for the entire world.