Attack on Saudi refinery: the Houthis worsen the energy crisis
As they say "It always rains in the wet". There was a drone attack on a Saudi refinery in Riyadh. The attack luckily resulted in only a small fire, the Saudi Ministry of Energy said, quoted by Reuters. Officially the attacking party was not named by the Saudis who managed to keep the plant active
"Refinery operations and supplies of oil and its derivatives were not affected," the statement read.
"These repeated acts of sabotage and terrorism on vital installations and civilian structures … do not just target the Kingdom, but aim to undermine the security and stability of global energy supplies," the Ministry of Energy also said.
A separate report from the Saudi news agency spoke of an attack by Houthi rebels from Yemen on “civilians and civilian objects in the city of Jazan, a center of the Saudi oil industry.
Reuters noted in its report that the Houthis had not announced any attacks on Saudi Arabia in the past few days.
Saudi oil facilities are a priority target for the Houthis, whom Saudi Arabia is seeking to oust from Yemen after removing the Saudi Arabian-affiliated country's government in 2014 and have since taken over most of Yemen. The Yemeni war, which led to the worst humanitarian crisis of modern times, is widely seen as a proxy war between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran, fighting each other on the skin of the Yemenis.
While Saudi forces intercept most of the drones and missiles launched by the Houthis at targets in the Kingdom, some manage to get through. The most notable so far has been an attack that took place two years ago and took 5% of the global daily oil supply offline when the missiles hit an oil field and processing plant. The Houthis took responsibility for the attacks.
Obviously, these facts also increase the tension on the oil markets.
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