Commonground
Senior Moderator
Apr 10, 2026
Missile and drone barrages have damaged swaths of Saudi Arabia's vast energy infrastructure, including refineries, oil fields deep in the desert and petrochemical plants.
Saudi Arabia has lost more than half a million barrels a day of oil output capacity because of Iranian attacks while a key pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz was also hit, ratcheting up risks to global energy supplies from the war in the Middle East.
Almost 600,000 barrels a day of production capacity has been affected, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency. Strikes on a pumping station serving the vital East-West pipeline this week crimped daily throughput by 700,000 barrels, according to the report.
Missile and drone barrages have damaged swaths of Saudi Arabia's vast energy infrastructure, including refineries, oil fields deep in the desert and petrochemical plants. The kingdom has already slashed crude production following Iran's near blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, but has been recouping some lost exports by diverting flows through the conduit to the Red Sea coast.
The reduction in production capacity is equivalent to almost one out of every 10 barrels of pre-war Saudi crude exports, according to Bloomberg calculations.
The extent of damage to facilities is a key issue that traders, consumers and governments are watching because it will factor into how long it will take to restore supplies once the US-Israeli war on Iran concludes.
continued: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/saudi-oil-output-capacity-pipeline-flows-cut-in-supply-risk-11337043
Missile and drone barrages have damaged swaths of Saudi Arabia's vast energy infrastructure, including refineries, oil fields deep in the desert and petrochemical plants.
Saudi Arabia has lost more than half a million barrels a day of oil output capacity because of Iranian attacks while a key pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz was also hit, ratcheting up risks to global energy supplies from the war in the Middle East.
Almost 600,000 barrels a day of production capacity has been affected, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency. Strikes on a pumping station serving the vital East-West pipeline this week crimped daily throughput by 700,000 barrels, according to the report.
Missile and drone barrages have damaged swaths of Saudi Arabia's vast energy infrastructure, including refineries, oil fields deep in the desert and petrochemical plants. The kingdom has already slashed crude production following Iran's near blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, but has been recouping some lost exports by diverting flows through the conduit to the Red Sea coast.
The reduction in production capacity is equivalent to almost one out of every 10 barrels of pre-war Saudi crude exports, according to Bloomberg calculations.
The extent of damage to facilities is a key issue that traders, consumers and governments are watching because it will factor into how long it will take to restore supplies once the US-Israeli war on Iran concludes.
continued: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/saudi-oil-output-capacity-pipeline-flows-cut-in-supply-risk-11337043
