Drones hit 2 Saudi Aramco oil facilities, cause fires

[Bismarck]

That is very big Fire, may Allah protect the people who work there, live around it , and first responder's .

Any idea how many thousands civilian Saudis killt in Yemen?

 

[Turan09]

Did saudi make any statement about What kind of drones used? I mean a strike UCAV like Iranian Shahed-129 or some toys with granade?

 

[Bengal71]

It is a good 45 min to 1 hour flight for a Drone to go from Yamen to that Refinery
So USA patriot missiles could not spot the drone ?

Did it really flew from Yamen , UAE is the closest foreign region
Brother oman is also near by (who also have been housing our enemy India)

Why can't it fly from Iran itself which is just across the gulf?

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

That would be heavily monitored
Most likely it came from UAE (Speculation)

 

[YeBeWarned]

Any idea how many thousands civilian Saudis killt in Yemen?

First they didn't kill hundreds of thousands, you are exaggerating .. second In Islam you can't kill a innocent to take the revenge of your loss , its just not allowed under no circumstance .

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

Wars=Destabilization=Greater Israel.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Their would be no fuel ....capacity on tiny drone to fly from Yamen to that Refinery ....

• Qatar
• UAE

Are both close to the point of incident

 

[skyshadow]

It is a good 45 min to 1 hour flight for a Drone to go from Yamen to that Refinery
So USA patriot missiles could not spot the drone ?

Did it really flew from Yamen , UAE is the closest foreign region
Brother oman is also near by (who also have been housing our enemy India)

no not Yemen, they did go either through Iraq to Kuwait and to Saudi Arabia or they were launched from Iran it self then through Kuwait air space and then to the Saudi Arabia either way they passed through Patriot PAC-2 and PAC-3 and Hawk air defense systems and some 30 mm AA guns, how did they passed them all is a big surprise for all of us as they show a big problem in Patriot air defense system and Hawk, so either they did not detect them or Iranians knew exactly where the Saudi Arabia and US bases and Bahrain and Kuwait air defenses were and they ditched them all and did go around them which is a bigger problem so you see my brother the magnitude of the attack was very big indeed.

 

[Bengal71]

no not Yemen, they did go either through Iraq to Kuwait and to Saudi Arabia or they were launched from Iran it self then through Kuwait air space and then to the Saudi Arabia either way they passed through Patriot PAC-2 and PAC-3 and Hawk air defense systems and some 30 mm AA guns, how did they passed them all is a big surprise for all of us as they show a big problem in Patriot air defense system and Hawk, so either they did not detect them or Iranians knew exactly where the Saudi Arabia and US bases and Bahrain and Kuwait air defenses were and they ditched them all and did go around them which is a bigger problem so you see my brother the magnitude of the attack was very big indeed.

Using patriot to shoot down a cheap drone? I think Iran can produce 10/15 of these drones for the price of one patriot missile.

 

[Yaseen1]

Oil shortage will badly effect poor countries with weak economy like Pakistan so it is very dangerous for us

 

[Falcon29]

Get your popcorn ready folks ....

 

[skyshadow]

Using patriot to shoot down a cheap drone? I think Iran can produce 10/15 of these drones for the price of one patriot missile.

they were jet powered UAVs big UAVs or cruise missiles we do not know which inflected about 200 billion dollars worth of damage they were better off hitting them with patriots or anything that they got, 200 billion dollars it's a loooot of money.

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Salaam



This is a very worrisome development, if it indeed turns out to be a cruise missile. The fact that it was an attack on oil refinery alone was a dangerous development but with cruise missiles as well?

This could lead to a serious escalation between KSA and Iran - maybe a direct confrontation as well.

Pakistan has made repeated claims about protecting and defending the territorial integrity of KSA - what happens if we actually have to honour that?

Not to mention the broader implications of such a conflict for the region and world economy.





It would get much harder for the Saudis to ignore their oil fields getting attacked with missiles and drones.

After all, it is one thing to have a few check posts on the border attacked and a completely different ball game to have cruise missiles falling on your oil field in the middle of the country.

I just don't know what sort of options the Saudis have now.

Leave the response to the US Deep State!! It’s a like a gift from the heavens!!! President Trump has tried his best to avoid new wars, but he’ll probably fail this time....

 

[SQ8]

Layered security is Ok but the big question is who is in control of it ? Arabs ?

This drone attack is actually giving more credibility to the narrative that militaries of arab countries are just good on paper. I wonder , where is that arab guy from KSA who , just yesterday , was all praises about saudi military defence capabilities

Off course they are. Oil refineries are keystone to GCC economies regardless of attempts to diversify.

Drone attacks are fairly easy and cheap to carry which is why the focus in now on drone jamming weapons.

A $120000 SAM isnt designed to go after a $300 drone chugging along at 30 knots.

 

[Suff Shikan]

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Abqaiq has the world's largest oil processing plant

Drone attacks have set alight two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, state media say.

Footage showed a huge blaze at Abqaiq, site of Aramco's largest oil processing plant, while a second drone attack started fires in the Khurais oilfield.

The fires are now under control at both facilities, state media said.

A spokesman for the Iran-aligned Houthi group in Yemen said it had deployed 10 drones in the attacks.

The military spokesman, Yahya Sarea, told al-Masirah TV, which is owned by the Houthi movement and is based in Beirut, that further attacks could be expected in the future.

He said Saturday's attack was one of the biggest operations the Houthi forces had undertaken inside Saudi Arabia and was carried out in "co-operation with the honourable people inside the kingdom".

Saudi Arabia is said to be shutting down around half of its oil output, the Wall Street Journal reports .

Officials have not yet commented on who they think is behind the attacks.

"At 04:00 (01:00 GMT), the industrial security teams of Aramco started dealing with fires at two of its facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais as a result of... drones," the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

"The two fires have been controlled."

There have been no details on the damage but Agence France-Presse quoted interior ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki as saying there were no casualties.

Abqaiq is about 60km (37 miles) south-west of Dhahran in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, while Khurais, some 200km further south-west, has the country's second largest oilfield.

That damage looks massive