Iran Bombs Saudi Arabia Aramco Ras Tanura Oil Refinery [Video]

Iran has attacked the Saudi Arabia Aramco Ras Tanura Oil Refinery.

Newsone Nigeria reports that an Iranian drone strike targeted Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura oil refining facility on Monday, igniting a fire outbreak, according to media reports.

This newspaper understands that the attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco Ras Tanura Oil Refinery was also captured in widely circulated social media footage.

Ras Tanura Oil Refinery, situated on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast along the Persian Gulf, serves as one of the kingdom’s primary oil refining and export hubs.

The US and Israel launched an attack on Iran on Saturday, killing several top Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Tehran retaliated with a series of drone and missile attacks that targeted Israel, US assets, and several Gulf countries.

Iran retaliated by targeting Israel, as well as designated sites in several regional countries hosting US bases, notably Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.

In response, Saudi Aramco shut its Ras Tanura refinery after Iran’s drone attacks, marking a sharp escalation on the third day of strikes launched by Tehran in response to the US-Israeli attack on Iran.

The state oil giant halted operations at the Saudi Aramco-owned Ras Tanura refinery after the facility was hit by a drone on Monday. The complex, located on Saudi Arabia’s Gulf coast, is one of the Middle East’s largest refineries with a capacity of 550,000 barrels per day (bpd) and serves as a critical export terminal for Saudi crude.

Ras Tanura handles a significant share of the kingdom’s oil exports, with shipments typically heading to major markets in Europe and Asia, including China, Japan and South Korea.

The refinery was shut as a precautionary measure and the situation is under control, a source told Reuters. Two drones were intercepted at the facility, with debris causing a limited fire, according to the Saudi defence ministry’s spokesperson speaking on Al Arabiya TV. There were no injuries. Aramco, on the other hand, is yet to issue a statement over the attack.

The shutdown is likely to heighten supply concerns as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz – through which roughly a fifth of global oil consumption flows – slowed to a near-halt after vessels were attacked in the area on Sunday. Brent crude futures surged about 10% on Monday.

“The attack on Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura refinery marks a significant escalation, with Gulf energy infrastructure now squarely in Iran’s sights,” said Torbjorn Soltvedt, Principal Middle East Analyst at risk intelligence firm Verisk Maplecroft.

The drone strike forms part of a broader wave of attacks across the region, including reported strikes on Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Manama and Oman’s commercial port of Duqm. In Iraq, most oil production in the Kurdistan region – which exported around 200,000 bpd to Turkey in February – was shut over the weekend as a precaution, according to field operators.

Ras Tanura was previously targeted in 2021 by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement, in what Riyadh at the time described as a failed assault on global energy security.

Watch the video of the attack below…

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Meanwhile, Newsone reports that Iranian strikes have hit Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Inside Iran, the Iranian Red Crescent reported that at least 201 people have been killed and 747 injured in US-Israeli attacks since Saturday.