A drone and missile attack strikes Saudi Arabia's principal crude processing complex, briefly removing a substantial share of the kingdom's output.
Why it mattersThe precedent that Gulf energy infrastructure is reachable, and that a single processing node can interrupt a national export system. Abqaiq is the origin point of the east–west pipeline this module authors as the region's principal Hormuz alternative.
Confidence: HighSources: Established historical record · IEA electricity and energy-security analysisMethodologyCorrections
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