New Strikes Hit Saudi Aramco Refinery at Jizan
New Strikes Hit Saudi Aramco Refinery at Jizan
The News
A Saudi Aramco facility at Jizan, in the kingdom's southwest near the Yemeni border, was hit in new strikes, the Financial Times reported Monday.
The FT said Jizan has been repeatedly targeted by Houthi rebels in their campaign against Saudi Arabia. The energy trade outlet Oilprice.com, in a report carried Monday night by Citizen Free Press, described the site as Aramco's Jizan refinery and said it had been hit again as Houthi attacks escalate.
The strikes land in an oil market already on edge. Crude touched near seven-week highs Monday as the US war with Iran escalated over the weekend, MarketWatch reported.
What We Could Not Confirm
None of the sources available to The Frank carry a Saudi government statement on Monday's strikes, a casualty count, or an assessment of damage to the plant. No group's claim of responsibility for Monday's attack appears in those sources either. We will update as that reporting firms up.
Timeline
A fire breaks out early in the day at a refinery in the southwestern coastal city of Jizan, Al Jazeera reports, citing the Saudi Energy Ministry. Saudi Arabia says the fire is extinguished.
The Houthis claim they hit the Aramco refinery at Jazan with two drones, Anadolu Agency reports. There is no immediate comment from Saudi Arabia.
The Houthis claim another drone strike on the Jizan refinery, Yeni Safak reports. A military source tells the Houthi-run Saba news agency that several drones were used and that the projectiles hit the refinery, but gives no details on damage or casualties. The group calls the attack retaliation for what it describes as violations of Yemeni airspace over the northern provinces of Saada and Hajjah. Saudi authorities do not immediately comment.
US Central Command releases video of what it says is an Iranian oil carrier it struck, according to MarketWatch. Over the same weekend, Tehran announces it intends to create an "exclusion zone" near the Strait of Hormuz.
The FT reports the Aramco facility at Jizan has been hit in new strikes. Oil prices hit highs of almost seven weeks; the West Texas Intermediate contract for October delivery briefly touches $93 a barrel before ending the session down 0.5% at $91.07.
Reactions
Saudi Arabia has stayed quiet, at least so far. In the earlier August attacks, Anadolu and Yeni Safak both reported that Saudi authorities did not immediately comment on Houthi claims — a pattern the kingdom has held to on Monday's strikes as well, in the reporting available.
The Houthis have made their reasoning plain in past strikes. A military source told the group's Saba news agency that the August drone attack answered what it called violations of Yemeni airspace over Saada and Hajjah, Yeni Safak reported.
Yeni Safak noted that Riyadh leads the military coalition that intervened in Yemen's civil war in 2015, after the Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa.
What's Next
Watch for a Saudi Energy Ministry statement — that is how Riyadh handled the Aug. 9 fire at Jizan, per Al Jazeera, and it is the likeliest route to a public damage assessment.
Watch the pumps, too. The Jizan strikes are hitting refining capacity at the same moment Iran is moving to squeeze the Strait of Hormuz, and MarketWatch reported Monday that Tehran's planned "exclusion zone" was already pushing crude toward seven-week highs. Refining capacity is harder to reroute than crude.
More
Jizan sits near the Yemen-Saudi border, which is what makes it the softest big target in the kingdom's energy network — short flight time, little warning. Yeni Safak reported the refinery has faced repeated attacks since the conflict began.
For American readers the number that matters is the one on the sign at the gas station. WTI at $91.07 with intraday prints near $93, as MarketWatch reported Monday, is a market pricing in a widening war, not a single refinery fire.
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