Saudi Arabia temporarily halts production at two Aramco oil facilities attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
Smoke is seen following a fire at an Aramco factory in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia on September 14, 2019 in this social media picture via videos obtained by Reuters.
Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said work was underway to restore production and a progress update would be provided in the next two days. Spokesman Judd Deere says the attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthis "only deepen conflict and mistrust." The facility processes sour crude oil into sweet crude, then later transports onto transhipment points on the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Estimates suggest it can process up to 7 million barrels of crude oil a day.
The war has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis. The violence has pushed Yemen to the brink of famine and killed more than 90,000 people since 2015, according to the US-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, or ACLED, which tracks the conflict.
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