China News Service, March 8th. According to the "Central News Agency" report, on the 7th, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Energy stated that an oil port in its territory was attacked by drones and the state-owned Aramco facilities in the eastern region were also locked by ballistic missiles.
At present, there is no news of casualties. UAVs and missiles have been intercepted, and the Houthis have claimed to launch an attack.
The country’s crude oil production appears to have been unaffected, with oil prices rising above $70 per barrel.
Data map: On September 14, 2019, after the Saudi National Oil Company in Saudi Arabia was attacked by a drone, a blaze of fire rose at the scene of the fire.
According to reports, the Saudi Ministry of Energy issued a statement stating that an oil storage tank area in the port of Ras Tanura in the east of the country was attacked by a drone flying from the sea on the morning of the 7th.
Ratanura Port is one of the largest oil ports in the world.
Later in the day, fragments of ballistic missiles fell on the residential area of Saudi Aramco in Dhahran.
The Ministry of National Defense of Saudi Arabia later stated in a statement that the drone was shot down and destroyed before reaching the target. The ballistic missiles that targeted Aramco’s facilities in Dhahran were also destroyed, and missile fragments fell on civilian infrastructure. nearby.
The two statements of the Saudi Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Energy did not mention casualties and losses, nor did they point out who was behind the attack.
However, the Houthi armed forces claimed that they targeted Ratanura Port and military targets in the Dammam area near Dhahran and launched drone and missile attacks.
According to Reuters, the site of the attack on the 7th was on the Gulf coast of the eastern provinces of Saudi Arabia, where most of Saudi Aramco's production and export facilities are located.
In 2019, Saudi Arabia's oil facilities were attacked by large-scale missiles and drones, only a few kilometers away from the site where they were attacked on the 7th. The attack at that time caused Saudi Arabia to temporarily shut down more than half of its oil output, and oil prices soared.