Saudi Arabia has restored full capacity to its crucial East-West oil pipeline following attacks that affected it last week, the Energy Ministry said on Sunday (12).
The 1,200-kilometer pipeline is one of two in the region that bypass the Strait of Hormuz, where the war has caused significant disruption to trade.
The attacks led to production losses of “approximately 700,000 barrels per day,” the Saudi Press Agency reported last week.
The restoration increases the country’s pumping capacity to approximately 7 million barrels per day and production from the Manifa field to around 300,000 barrels per day, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
Work to restore full production at the Khurais field is still ongoing, the ministry added.
A CNN had previously reported that satellite images provided by the European Space Agency showed fires and large columns of thick black smoke rising from Saudi Aramco’s key Abqaiq processing facility, following reports of an Iranian attack.
The cause of the fire seen in the satellite image was not immediately clear.
The attacks were reported by Saudi state news agency SPA, which cited an anonymous Energy Ministry official.
The report, from Thursday (9), did not specify when the attacks occurred, but stated that one Saudi citizen was killed and seven others were injured.
