Saudi Arabia Shuts Ras Tanura Aramco Oil Refinery After Iranian Drone Attack
Saudi Arabia has shut down one of its largest and key oil refinery, the kingdom’s oil giant Aramco in Ras Tanura following attack by Iran amid the rising US-Israel offensive against Iran.
Iran has been carrying out strikes across US assets in the gulf regions in retaliation to the US-Israel bombing across its cities and the killing of its supreme leader Ayatollah Aki Khamenei.
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The Ras Tanura complex houses one of the Middle East’s largest refineries with a capacity of 550,000 barrels per day (bpd) and serves as a critical export terminal for Saudi crude.
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