Saudi Aramco

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.

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信心：中等 截至2026-10-21檢視於2026-10-29