Fire breaks out at Saudi Aramco refinery

A fire broke out early Sunday, August 9, at a facility belonging to Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery in southwestern Saudi Arabia, with no injuries reported, the Energy Ministry said. In a post on X, the ministry said Aramco’s industrial security firefighting teams had extinguished the blaze, while the relevant authorities were completing the necessary procedures to deal with the incident. The ministry did not disclose the cause of the fire. https://twitter.com/i/status/2086264025185243338 Later, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a post on X that Yemen’s armed forces had targeted the Aramco refinery in Jizan with a drone, describing the strike as precise. He said the operation was carried out in response to what he described as Saudi violations of Yemeni airspace over Saada and Hajjah provinces.