Fire at Aramco’s Red Sea refinery in Jazan extinguished; no injuries reported
Aramco shut down the refinery on Jul 27 following an attack by Yemen’s Houthi militants
A fire at Aramco's Jazan refinery on the Red Sea in southwestern Saudi Arabia was extinguished on Sunday, Aug 9, with no injuries reported. Aramco's industrial security teams managed to bring the blaze under control. The refinery, which processes 400,000 barrels of crude oil daily, produces refined products such as gasoline and ultra-light sulfur diesel.
It had previously been shut down on July 27 due to an attack by Yemen's Houthi militants, which damaged the plant's Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle complex and tank farm area. Aramco's CEO, Amin Nasser, stated that the recent attacks caused minor production interruptions and posed no significant operational or financial impact.
The Houthi group had declared a naval blockade in the Red Sea in July, alleging a Saudi siege of Yemen, a claim Riyadh denies.
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