Saudi Arabia: attack by Houthi rebels on the Kingdom’s energy plants. Oil in danger
Saudi Arabia said Yemen's Houthis, aligned with Iran, fired missiles at various power generation and water desalination plants between Saturday night and Sunday morning, according to Reuters .
In a statement on Sunday, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Energy said drones and missile strikes hit an oil products distribution terminal in the Jizan region, a natural gas plant and a Yasref refinery in the port. of Yanbu, in the Red Sea.
" The assault on the Yasref plants led to a temporary reduction in the refinery's production, which will be offset by the inventory ," the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Energy said in a statement.
The ministry added that a number of distribution facilities were hit, causing a fire to break out at one plant. Officials said the fire had been controlled and no causes were reported.
Spokesman for the Houthi rebels, Yahya Sarea, confirmed that the militant group has attacked a number of facilities in Saudi Arabia.
A Saudi-led military coalition said the militant group has also targeted other locations, such as a water desalination plant in Al-Shaqeeq, a power plant in Dhahran al Janub and a gas plant in Khamis Mushait. The Saudi Defense Forces reported intercepting a ballistic missile and nine drones, Reuters reported.
It seems clear that these assaults take place at a very delicate moment for everyone: Arabia requires more protection and this has created tensions with the USA. At the same time, the US needs Riyadh for oil supplies to an increasingly dry West. At the same time, Arabia finds itself in conflict with Shiite Iran, its traditional enemy and protector of the Yemeni Houthi rebels. An often bloody mess that threatens to bring the world to its knees.
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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/159166-2/ on Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:00:56 +0000.