Sat - 17 Aug 2019 - 05:45 PM ،،،
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Yemen's Houthi militia on Saturday launched a terror attack on the Shaybah oil field in eastern Saudi Arabia causing a "limited" fire at a gas plant. The attack had no impact on oil production or exports, Khalid Bin Abdulaziz Al-Falih, minister of energy, industry and mineral resources said in a statement.
Al-Falih further said that at 6.20 a.m. Saturday, one of the units of Shaybah NGL facility was subject to an explosive-carrying drone attack, resulting in a limited fire that was controlled. There were no casualties.
A statement by Saudi Aramco on its website said, “Saudi Aramco’s response team controlled a limited fire this morning at the Shaybah NGL facility. There were no injuries and no interruptions to Saudi Aramco’s oil operations.”
Meanwhile, Al-Falih stressed in his statement that oil production and exports have not been affected by the terrorist attack.
He asserted the Kingdom’s strong condemnation of the cowardly attack, stressing that this act of sabotage and terror is nothing but an extension of the acts that recently targeted the international oil supply chains, including the oil pipelines in the Kingdom, oil tankers in the Arabian Gulf and others.
This targeting of vital installations, is not targeting the Kingdom alone but the security of global energy supplies as well. Therefore, it is a threat to the global economy. This cowardly attack highlights once again the importance of the international community to repulse all terrorist quarters that carry out such acts of sabotage, including the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen.