Posted on 09/14/2019 7:02:21 AM PDT by LRoggy
(Moderator, if I can't excerpt the BBC, please note)
Drone attacks have set alight two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, state media say.
Footage showed a huge blaze at Abqaiq, site of Aramco's largest oil processing plant, while a second drone attack started fires in the Khurais oilfield.
The fires are now under control at both facilities, state media said.
A spokesman for the Iran-aligned Houthi group in Yemen said it had deployed 10 drones in the attacks.
The military spokesman, Yahya Sarea, told al-Masirah TV, which is owned by the Houthi movement and is based in Beirut, that further attacks could be expected in the future.
He said Saturday's attack was one of the biggest operations the Houthi forces had undertaken inside Saudi Arabia and was carried out in "co-operation with the honourable people inside the kingdom".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Every Oil refinery/chemical plant in the world is subject to drone attacks. Very hard to defend against.
...and is probably having trouble selling their own oil due to the embargo.
A real war between Soddy and Eye ran, would be _____.
The 250-hectare complex can process 7 million barrels of oil a day. The real issue is that it is located in Eastern Province, way the hell and gone from Yemen. Saudi Arabia will have to decide sooner or later whether to lay waste the Shiite provinces in Yemen, or maybe hit Iranian complexes in a tit for tat move.
With shotgun shells or an Anti-Aircraft Battery? Trying to understand the technology you are proposing for the "blasting".
Alberta should declare independence. You guys are half what you should be because you are chained to the ground by the idiots in Ottawa IMHO.
“After crude products (oil, natural gas, water, sand, etc.) are processed by the GOSPs (Gas Oil Separation Plants), the sour oil (containing H2S, hydrogen sulphide) is sent by pipeline to Abqaiq. The Abqaiq site stabilizes the oil, then pumps it to Ras Tanura (where it is exported), or further refined at a domestic refinery. Abqaiq also has NGL (Natural Gas Liquids) plants that extract natural gas liquids (butane, propane, hexane, etc.) from the oil. These NGL’s are stabilized by Abqaiq, then sent to other sites for further separation and purification.”
http://www.oilfieldwiki.com/wiki/Abqaiq
Many of us are at that point, but there are too many Alberta liberals who would sell their children just so they can be called, “Good Canadians”.
right..... Abquiq is the oil gas separation facility. The actual refinery is north of Dhahran at Ras Tanura
Roger that !
Are these the same type of drones that may have started the CA wildfires?
Yes, the Saudi’s are the good guys
The Houthi are Iran. That is the Houthi are Yemeni Iranian surrogates payed to go to war with Saudi Arabia. Similar surrogates are Hamas and Hezbollah
At some point, I think Saudi Arabia nad the gulf States along with Israel will quit putting up with the nonsense and attack Iran directly.
>>Gas prices will be up, I guess<<
But...I thought we are now “energy independent”??? Why should our gas prices be affected by a change in Saudi capacity?
Even tho the USA does not get a lot of oil from there anymore, you can bet gas prices will shoot up. They choose anything that happens in the world to drive up prices. Iran shoots at the Kurds and gas prices shoot up! Why? Because they use anything to drive them up. Hell, Manchester City can score two goals on Liverpool and gas prices will go up 20 cents!!! Any excuse. Any.
This is why the muslim Saudi’s have befriended Jewish Israel, to help them fight Iran.
Remote temperature controlled shut-off valves are in order.
LOL...true but let’s get the Saudi money before we whack em.
About ~5% of the world's oil facilities were impacted. What do you know about supply and demand that the rest of us don't know?
Current technology includes jamming the control signals, jamming or spoofing GPS/GLONASS signals, and hammering them with acoustic noise to destabilize the accelerometers used for inertial navigation.
There are probably a half dozen more I don’t know about...
Don’t forget the unicorn farts!
“The real issue is that it is located in Eastern Province, way the hell and gone from Yemen. “
And the Eastern province is majority Shia. So lots of Huthi and Iranian supporters.
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