Image: Shutterstock/Arnut topralai Image: Shutterstock/Arnut topralai DRONE ATTACKS SPARKED fires at two Saudi Arabia oil facilities today, the government said.Huge plumes of smoke rose into the sky after the pre-dawn attacks on Abqaiq and Khurais, two major Aramco facilities in eastern Saudi Arabia.
“At 4am the industrial security teams of Aramco started dealing with fires at two of its facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais as a result of… drones,” the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.The statement added that an investigation had been launched after the attack in the kingdom’s eastern province, but did not specify whether operations at the two facilities had been affected.
In recent months, the Huthi rebels have carried out a number of cross-border missile and drone attacks targeting Saudi air bases and other facilities in what they say is retaliation for a long-running Saudi-led bombing campaign on rebel-held areas in Yemen. The rebels launched “a large-scale operation involving 10 drones that targeted refineries in Abqaiq and Khurais in eastern Saudi Arabia”, the group’s Al-Masirah television reported.
Last month, an attack claimed by Huthi rebels sparked a fire at Aramco’s Shaybah natural gas liquefaction facility – close to the Emirati border – but no casualties were reported by the company.
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