No casualties had been reported after the flames broke out early on Sunday, the Saudi Power Ministry says.
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A fireplace reported at a facility belonging to Saudi Arabian state oil large Aramco has been extinguished, authorities say.
The blaze broke out early on Sunday at a web site within the coastal metropolis of Jizan, the Saudi Ministry of Power wrote in a press release on X. No casualties had been reported.
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“The competent authorities are finishing the required procedures to take care of the incident,” the ministry added.
It didn’t say what prompted the fireplace.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi armed group claimed it carried out an assault on the power, positioned on the Crimson Sea close to its border, the most recent in a series of Houthi claims of strikes concentrating on Saudi oil websites.
A army spokesman for the Houthi led authorities within the capital Sanaa, Yahya Saree, wrote on X the group “succeeded in concentrating on the Aramco refinery in Jizan with a drone, and the strike was exact”.
He mentioned the assault got here in response to Saudi Arabia’s “breach of the airspace of the provinces of Saada and Hajjah” with drones.
There was no quick touch upon the declare from Riyadh. Al Jazeera has contacted the Saudi Ministry of Overseas Affairs.
The Houthis final month claimed attacks on Aramco amenities in Jizan. The Houthis additionally mentioned they focused oil installations in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia’s principal west coast export gateway.
Aramco chief Amin Nasser mentioned final week that latest assaults on the corporate’s amenities had prompted some manufacturing interruptions however that he was assured operations might be restored shortly. He mentioned the assaults had no materials operational or monetary affect.
The assaults have added to rising strains on a 2022 truce within the struggle between the Houthis and Yemen’s internationally recognised authorities, backed by Saudi Arabia.
The Houthis, which took management of the capital, Sanaa, in 2014, additionally declared a blockade on Saudi Arabia within the Crimson Sea final month, threatening delivery by the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
Saudi authorities have additionally blamed Iran-aligned armed teams in Iraq for assaults on its oil amenities.
On Friday, Riyadh signed a defence pact with Turkiye and Pakistan amid rising regional tensions from the US-Israel struggle on Iran.
