Houthis Claim Responsibility For Drone Attacks On Saudi Oil Facilities

Riyaz Patel

Saudi state-owned company Aramco says drone attacks on two major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia have severely disrupted production, reports coming from the Kingdom said.

Sources quoted by Reuters and WSJ said the strikes had reduced production by five million barrels a day – nearly half the kingdom’s output, or 5 percent of the daily global oil supply, analysts with knowledge of Saudi’s oil operations said.

Yemen’s Houthi group claimed responsibility for the attacks on the two Saudi Aramco plants in the kingdom’s Eastern Province Saturday, the group’s military spokesman said on Al-Masirah TV.

The broadcaster said the Houthis had deployed 10 drones against the sites in Abqaiq and Khurais, as the group