{"id":48577,"date":"2019-09-20T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48577"},"modified":"2019-09-20T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T18:31:27","slug":"suspiciously-well-placed-first-images-of-crippling-damage-to-giant-khurais-oil-field-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48577","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Suspiciously Well Placed&#8221;: First Images Of Crippling Damage To Giant Khurais Oil Field Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/first-images-crippling-damage-giant-khurais-oil-field-revealed\">&#8220;Suspiciously Well Placed&#8221;: First Images Of Crippling Damage To Giant Khurais Oil Field Revealed<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of the attention concerning the crippling damage to Saudi Aramco facilities struck in last week&#8217;s aerial attack ultimately blamed on &#8220;Iranian sponsorship&#8221; by US and Saudi officials has focused on\u00a0Abqaiq processing plant, but on Friday the first on the ground images from the kingdom&#8217;s giant Khurais oil field\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>the country&#8217;s second largest\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>have been revealed, showing\u00a0<strong>scorched infrastructure, ruptured pipelines, and &#8220;a mess of oil melted to asphalt, twisted and charred metal grates&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0according to an on site\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-09-20\/saudi-aramco-reveals-damage-to-giant-khurais-oil-field\"><em>Bloomberg report<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Khurais1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Sept. 20 photo showing destroyed key crude oil processing units at the giant\u00a0Khurais oil field. Image source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet Aramco has remained insistent that the field will&nbsp;<strong>return to pre-attack output levels this month<\/strong>, after the company reported losing half its daily output in the aftermath of the early Saturday attacks, impacting a whopping 5% of total global supply.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Per Bloomberg,&nbsp;Khurais has a&nbsp;<strong>capacity of 1.45 million barrels a day<\/strong>, processing all oil on site; however the attack took out four 300-foot towers essential to the production process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Khurais2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Sept. 20 photo showing destroyed crude oil processing units at the giant&nbsp;Khurais oil field. Image source: Bloomberg<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like at the Abqaiq processing plant nearer the coast, the strikes&nbsp;<em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em>whether by drones or ballistic missiles (debris showed by the Saudi Defense Ministry this week featured both)&nbsp;<em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em>appeared&nbsp;<strong>remarkably precise<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Saudis have counted a total of\u00a0<strong>twenty-five drones and missiles<\/strong>\u00a0used in the twin attacks, after statements by Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebels claimed ten drones were used.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Suspiciously Well Placed&#8221;: First Images Of Crippling Damage To Giant Khurais Oil Field Revealed Much of the attention concerning the crippling damage to Saudi Aramco facilities struck in last week&#8217;s aerial attack ultimately blamed on &#8220;Iranian sponsorship&#8221; by US and Saudi officials has focused on\u00a0Abqaiq processing plant, but on Friday the first on the ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27216,701,4318],"class_list":["post-48577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-khurais-oil-field","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48578,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48577\/revisions\/48578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}