Saudi Arabia restores full pumping capacity to East-West pipeline
According to Ukrinform, Bloomberg reported this.
A drone strike last week—just hours after a ceasefire was announced in the war with Iran—damaged one of the 11 pumping stations along the 1,200-kilometer pipeline, resulting in a reduction in capacity of 700,000 barrels per day. Since late February, Saudi Arabia has quadrupled oil shipments from its Red Sea terminals to circumvent the near-total closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Production at Saudi Aramco’s offshore oil facility in Manifa has also resumed, the Ministry of Energy reported on Sunday, although work at the onshore Khurais complex continues. Attacks on Manifa and Khurais reduced production capacity by approximately 300,000 barrels per day each, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported last week.
The Khurais field produces light crude oil, which Aramco transported via the East-West pipeline, while the Manifa field and other offshore fields typically produce Aramco’s heavy crude oil.
As reported by Ukrinform, on April 8, the East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia, which transports oil from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea for export, was attacked by a drone.
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