Fire extinguished at Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery

Firefighters extinguished a blaze at Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery on Sunday. The facility had previously been shut down following a Houthi militant attack. This incident raises concerns about potential disruptions to oil infrastructure. Recent attacks have caused some production interruptions for the company. Operations are expected to be restored quickly, with no material impact.

Firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out early on Sunday at a facility at Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Energy Ministry said, adding that there were no injuries. Aramco's industrial security teams had brought the fire under control and the relevant authorities were completing procedures to deal with the incident, the ministry said on X. It did not say what caused the fire.

Jazan is on the Red Sea near the border with Yemen. Aramco shut down its 400,000 barrel-per-day Jazan refinery on July 27 following an attack by Yemen's Houthi militants that damaged the plant's Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) complex and tank farm area, according to a note from consultancy IIR seen by Reuters.

The Houthis said at the time they had struck Aramco sites in Jazan and Yanbu. The attacks raised the prospect that threats to Red Sea shipping and Saudi oil infrastructure could widen global disruption stemming from the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and Iranian attacks on shipping around the Strait of Hormuz. Aramco chief Amin Nasser said last week that recent attacks on the company's facilities had caused some production interruptions but that he was confident operations could be restored quickly. He said the attacks had no material operational or financial impact.

The Houthis declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea last month in response to what they described as a Saudi siege of Yemen, an allegation Riyadh denies.