{"id":57005,"date":"2021-03-07T20:22:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T01:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57005"},"modified":"2021-03-08T08:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T13:49:44","slug":"brace-for-oil-surge-saudi-oil-tank-in-ras-tanura-port-hit-in-houthi-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57005","title":{"rendered":"Brace For Oil Surge: Saudi Oil Tank In Ras Tanura Port Hit In Houthi Drone Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/saudi-oil-tank-ras-tanura-port-hit-houthi-ballistic-missile-attack-targeting-aramco\">Brace For Oil Surge: Saudi Oil Tank In Ras Tanura Port Hit In Houthi Drone Attack<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p>It&#8217;s not as if oil &#8211; the best performing class of 2021 &#8211; behind bitcoin of course &#8211; needed any more reasons to surge higher (for the latest tally please read &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/saudis-commodity-funds-energy-stock-explosion\">Saudis + Commodity Funds = Energy Stock Explosion<\/a>&#8220;), but it got it moments ago when Saudi Arabia said that it had intercepted missiles and a barrage of drones launched from neighboring Yemen and which targeted Dhahran, where Saudi Aramco, the world\u2019s biggest oil company, is headquartered, which eyewitnesses said was rocked by an explosion.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg which quotes witnesses on the ground, the blast shook windows in Dhahran, which hosts a large compound for Aramco employees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/dhahran.jpg?itok=-0AUC6c9\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/dhahran.jpg?itok=-0AUC6c9\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/dhahran.jpg?itok=-0AUC6c9\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"a1ba8b65-c675-487f-9153-7ea96b4e9bab\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Bloomberg was cautious with reporting of what had happened, Saudi journalist Ahmed al Omaran who previously worked with the FT, said that &#8220;Saudi oil tanks in Ras Tanura Port hit in drone attack and Aramco facilities targeted with ballistic missile&#8221; quoting an energy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spa.gov.sa\/2197888\">ministry statement<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1368657549906612224&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fsaudi-oil-tank-ras-tanura-port-hit-houthi-ballistic-missile-attack-targeting-aramco&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1368657549906612224\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>An official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spa.gov.sa\/2197888\">spokesman at the Ministry of Energy\u00a0<\/a>said that &#8220;<strong>one of the petroleum tank farms at the Ras Tanura Port in the Eastern Region, one of the largest oil shipping ports in the world, was attacked this morning by a drone, coming from the sea&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s Houthis claimed a series of attacks on Sunday including on a Saudi Aramco facility at Ras Tanura in the east of the kingdom. The group launched eight ballistic missiles and 14 bomb-laden drones at Saudi Arabia, a spokesman for the Houthis, Yahya Saree, said in a statement to Houthi-run Al Masirah television.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThere are reports of possible missile attacks and explosions this evening, March 7, in the tri-city area of Dhahran, Dammam, and Khobar in Saudi Arabia\u2019s Eastern Province,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>the U.S. consulate general in Dhahran said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brace For Oil Surge: Saudi Oil Tank In Ras Tanura Port Hit In Houthi Drone Attack It&#8217;s not as if oil &#8211; the best performing class of 2021 &#8211; behind bitcoin of course &#8211; needed any more reasons to surge higher (for the latest tally please read &#8220;Saudis + Commodity Funds = Energy Stock Explosion&#8220;), [&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":[3,5],"tags":[3504,592,701,901,4318],"class_list":["post-57005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-houthis","tag-oil-price","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-yemen","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57005","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=57005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57017,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57005\/revisions\/57017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}