An official at Saudi Aramco said, Tuesday, that the customers were not affected by a missile attack launched by the Houthis in Yemen on a station for the distribution of petroleum products north of Jeddah.
The official described the facility as vital, distributing more than 120,000 barrels of petroleum products daily in Jeddah, Makkah and Al-Baha region.
He added to reporters, during an inspection tour, that the fire caused by the attack could be extinguished in about 40 minutes, without anyone being injured, stressing that one of the 13 tankers stopped working at the facility.
The official pointed out that the missile hit the storage tank from the top, causing "severe damage" to the tank's roof, creating a gap of about two meters wide. There were black marks and some damage around its upper edge.
On Monday, an official source in the Saudi Ministry of Energy said that a fire broke out in a fuel tank at the petroleum products distribution station in north Jeddah, and that the firefighting teams managed to extinguish the fire, and there were no injuries or loss of life.
Aramco's oil production and export facilities are predominantly located in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, more than 1,000 kilometers from Jeddah.
A military spokesman for the Yemeni Houthi group, which is allied with Iran, said, on Monday, that Houthi forces fired a missile at an Aramco distribution station in Jeddah, overlooking the Red Sea.
A spokesman for the Houthi group, Yahya Saree, called on foreign companies and residents in Saudi Arabia to be careful because "our operations are continuing," adding that the strike was carried out in response to the actions of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
The spokesman released a satellite image with the phrase "Al-Saiib Factory, North of Jeddah - Saudi Aramco." Google Maps shows a facility identical to that image and description on the northern outskirts of Jeddah.
Later, the coalition fighting in Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia, confirmed the attack, saying it not only targeted the kingdom's national capabilities, but also global energy security.
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