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      <title>Iran struck Saudi Arabia oil pipeline just hours after ceasefire, source says</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Iran attacked Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline just hours after a ceasefire ‌was agreed to pause the Iran war, an industry source told &lt;em&gt;Reuters&lt;/em&gt; on Wednesday, hitting its only crude oil export route since hostilities began.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, currently its only outlet for exporting crude oil, was hit in an Iranian attack while ​other facilities in the kingdom were also targeted, an industry source told &lt;em&gt;Reuters&lt;/em&gt; on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The pipeline ​was diverting around 7 million barrels per day (bpd) from the kingdom’s oil heartland in the ⁠east to the Red Sea port of Yanbu after Iran effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz, trapping ​huge volumes of oil and gas in the Gulf and sending prices skyrocketing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Flows through the pipeline are expected to ​be affected, the source said, adding damage was being assessed. That could exacerbate what experts have called the world’s worst energy crisis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement on Wednesday that it had hit several targets across the region with ​missiles and drones, including what the IRGC called oil facilities of US companies in Yanbu.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The exact timing of ​the attack was not immediately clear, nor was the extent of any damage or the impact on the pipeline’s operations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Saudi ‌government communications ⁠office and pipeline operator Saudi Aramco did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The United States and Iran on Tuesday agreed to a two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan meant to suspend a six-week-old war that has killed thousands, spread across the Middle East and caused unprecedented energy market disruption.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Attacks on other Gulf countries were ​not halted despite the agreement.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The ​Kuwaiti army said that ⁠an intensified wave of Iranian attacks had targeted the country since 0800 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), adding drone attacks caused extensive damage to oil facilities, power plants ​and water desalination plants.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The United Arab Emirates said it was dealing with Iranian ​missile and drone ⁠attacks and Bahrain reported that an Iranian attack damaged houses in the Sitra area.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Aramco uses about 2 million bpd of the East-West Pipeline’s capacity domestically, leaving roughly 5 million bpd for export.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yanbu loadings averaged a near-capacity ⁠4.6 million ​bpd in the week starting March 23, shipping data showed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The pipeline ​had left the kingdom as a relative winner from the strait’s closure, with a &lt;em&gt;Reuters&lt;/em&gt; analysis showing its March estimated oil proceeds were ​higher than a year earlier.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Iran attacked Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline just hours after a ceasefire ‌was agreed to pause the Iran war, an industry source told <em>Reuters</em> on Wednesday, hitting its only crude oil export route since hostilities began.</strong></p>
<p>Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, currently its only outlet for exporting crude oil, was hit in an Iranian attack while ​other facilities in the kingdom were also targeted, an industry source told <em>Reuters</em> on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The pipeline ​was diverting around 7 million barrels per day (bpd) from the kingdom’s oil heartland in the ⁠east to the Red Sea port of Yanbu after Iran effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz, trapping ​huge volumes of oil and gas in the Gulf and sending prices skyrocketing.</p>
<p>Flows through the pipeline are expected to ​be affected, the source said, adding damage was being assessed. That could exacerbate what experts have called the world’s worst energy crisis.</p>
<p>Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement on Wednesday that it had hit several targets across the region with ​missiles and drones, including what the IRGC called oil facilities of US companies in Yanbu.</p>
<p>The exact timing of ​the attack was not immediately clear, nor was the extent of any damage or the impact on the pipeline’s operations.</p>
<p>The Saudi ‌government communications ⁠office and pipeline operator Saudi Aramco did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.</p>
<p>The United States and Iran on Tuesday agreed to a two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan meant to suspend a six-week-old war that has killed thousands, spread across the Middle East and caused unprecedented energy market disruption.</p>
<p>Attacks on other Gulf countries were ​not halted despite the agreement.</p>
<p>The ​Kuwaiti army said that ⁠an intensified wave of Iranian attacks had targeted the country since 0800 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), adding drone attacks caused extensive damage to oil facilities, power plants ​and water desalination plants.</p>
<p>The United Arab Emirates said it was dealing with Iranian ​missile and drone ⁠attacks and Bahrain reported that an Iranian attack damaged houses in the Sitra area.</p>
<p>Aramco uses about 2 million bpd of the East-West Pipeline’s capacity domestically, leaving roughly 5 million bpd for export.</p>
<p>Yanbu loadings averaged a near-capacity ⁠4.6 million ​bpd in the week starting March 23, shipping data showed.</p>
<p>The pipeline ​had left the kingdom as a relative winner from the strait’s closure, with a <em>Reuters</em> analysis showing its March estimated oil proceeds were ​higher than a year earlier.</p>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:44:32 +0500</pubDate>
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