Saudi pipeline operations unaffected after attack, official says
The East-West line provides Saudi Arabia with an oil export route that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz.
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Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline was targeted on Monday in the Medina region, but its operations were unaffected and no one was killed or injured, an energy ministry official said.
The official said emergency teams put out a small fire and technical teams secured the site. The statement, carried by the Saudi Press Agency, did not give figures for oil flows or exports after the incident.
The roughly 1,200-kilometre pipeline runs from the Persian Gulf to Yanbu on the Red Sea, allowing Saudi oil exports to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
Saudi authorities did not identify who was behind Monday’s attack. The pipeline was shut down for several days after drone attacks in September, which Saudi Arabia blamed on Iraqi militias.
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