What this organisation is
Saudi Aramco operates the kingdom's production, the Abqaiq processing complex, the Ras Tanura terminal on the Gulf and the East–West (Petroline) system that carries crude across the peninsula to Yanbu on the Red Sea. The Petroline carries a roughly 7 million b/d emergency ceiling established in 2019 — never a demonstrated sustained rate — and Aramco announced a ramp to full capacity on 10–11 March 2026. Wartime handling at Yanbu is estimated commercially at about 3 million b/d, of which roughly 2 million goes to Aramco's own Red Sea refineries before export crude can load, and an Iranian drone strike in April 2026 temporarily disabled about 700,000 b/d of it. Every alternative to Hormuz combined is estimated at 3.5 to 5.5 million b/d against a normal strait volume of about 20 million: a capacity comparison, not a measurement of what moved. The Ministry of Energy shut the East–West line as a precaution after a drone attack on 10 September 2026. Reuters reported it restarted at a low rate on 22 September on unnamed sources, and Yanbu loadings were reported resumed between 25 and 28 September on trade sources and tracker data, with throughput estimated at about 2 to 2.65 million b/d by an industry source and Kpler. Neither Aramco nor the ministry had stated a restart, a rate or a damage assessment by 3 October 2026, and none was found in any review to 25 October. In October the company's sites were reached but not stopped, on the energy ministry's account: a limited fire at its Dhahran headquarters complex on 13 October, and on 21 October a drone aimed at a facility at the Shaybah field, intercepted, whose debris killed two foreign workers outside the perimeter without affecting operations. The ministry did not say who launched it.
The organisation whose system is the module's central bypass number — and the reason that number is a ceiling, not a flow.
Confidence: Moderate As of 2026-10-21Reviewed 2026-10-29
Official name: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
Published facilities
Each is a marker the module already publishes; the relationship is this record’s own claim, with its own grade and source.
- Ras TanuraPort
- AbqaiqIndustrial centre
- East–West pipeline corridor (Petroline)Corridor · supply & trade artery
The East–West pipeline system; the 2019 emergency ceiling is Aramco's own figure.
- YanbuPort
- JazanRefinery
Every claim on this record is an announcement or a target. Nothing here is recorded as commissioned or delivered.
A ramp of the East–West system to full capacity, announced 10–11 March 2026, against a roughly 7 million b/d emergency ceiling established in 2019 that was never a demonstrated sustained rate.
Systems it belongs to
Supply systems it runs on
Commodities and outputs
Crude oil and refined products
Owners, controllers and arrangements
What remains unknown
- No published sustained throughput for the East–West system under wartime conditions was read; the module carries the ceiling and the commercial estimate of Yanbu handling, labelled as such.
- No Aramco or ministry statement of the September restart, its rate or the damage to the pumping stations had been published by 25 October 2026; every figure for the restarted line is a tracker's or an unnamed source's, and October loadings at Yanbu were not found.
Assessed as of — 2026-10-21 Last reviewed — 2026-10-29