{
  "id": 12118536,
  "title": "Saudi’s East-West oil pipeline pumping halted after new attack",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/saudis-east-west-oil-pipeline-pumping-halted-after-new-attack",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-05T09:12:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2026/10/05/saudi-s-east-west-oil-pipeline-pumping-halted-after-new-attack"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Oil pumping in Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline has been suspended once more due to a recent attack on the vital infrastructure, according to an insider familiar with the country's energy sector.\n\nThe pipeline was struck again on Monday, this time at a pumping station situated east of Riyadh in Khurais, a location that had not been targeted previously. The damage inflicted by the attack led to the pipeline coming to a halt once again.\n\nThis development follows a day after the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen announced that they had targeted various Saudi assets associated with state-owned oil company Aramco, including facilities in Khurais. The East-West pipeline, which spans approximately 1,200 kilometers (700 miles) between Saudi Arabia's primary oil fields in the east and the Yanbu terminal on the Red Sea, had been targeted multiple times since the war erupted across the Middle East following US-Israeli strikes on Iran.\n\nIn the previous month, Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil exporter, shut down the East-West pipeline, which connects the kingdom's key oil fields to the Yanbu terminal on the Red Sea. The shutdown occurred as a result of attacks on Saudi oil facilities allegedly originating from Iraq, a country home to pro-Iranian armed groups. During the brief suspension of the pipeline from September 11 to 22, commodity-tracking platform Kpler reported that flows remained halted.",
  "summary": "The information comes a day after the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen said they targeted sites in Saudi Arabia belonging to state oil giant Aramco.",
  "key_points": [],
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      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Saudi’s East-West oil pipeline pumping halted after new attack",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/saudis-east-west-oil-pipeline-pumping-halted-after-new-attack-12122456",
        "published": "2026-10-05T09:12:29.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The National UAE",
        "title": "Oil prices could have hit $200 a barrel if not for East-West pipeline, Aramco chief says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/oil-prices-could-have-hit-200-a-barrel-if-not-for-east-west-pipeline",
        "published": "2026-10-05T09:26:33.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Ajel English",
        "title": "Saudi East-West oil pipeline operating normally, source says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/saudi-east-west-oil-pipeline-operating-normally-source-says",
        "published": "2026-10-05T10:42:28.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}