An oil refinery in Riyadh suffered a drone attack that did not cause any casualties or disruption of its operations, a Saudi ministry said on Friday, according to the official SPA news agency.
This attack comes as the Russian military intervention in Ukraine, launched on February 24, is causing concern in world markets. The prices of gas and oil, of which Russia is a major supplier, have soared.
This act of “sabotage and terrorism” according to the SPA follows a series of similar attacks once morest Saudi infrastructure carried out by Houthi rebels in Yemen, where a military coalition led by Riyadh is fighting them. “The oil refinery in Riyadh was attacked by a drone, causing a light fire which was extinguished,” the energy ministry said, quoted by the agency, without attributing responsibility for the attack to the Yemeni rebels. .
The attack, which took place on Thursday morning, “caused no casualties, and the transport of oil or its derivatives was not affected”, according to the same source.
Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s largest crude oil exporters, and its partners in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) are in a rush to increase production to rein in soaring oil prices. raw fueled by the war in Ukraine.
