Saudi East-West Oil Pipeline Is Said to Be Flowing as Normal

According to Anadolu Agency, Bloomberg said oil continues to flow through the pipeline, citing people familiar with the matter.[2] Anadolu also reports that Saudi Aramco and the Saudi Energy Ministry did not immediately respond to Bloomberg's requests for comment.[2] Türkiye Today reports that a source working in the kingdom's energy sector told AFP on Monday that oil flows had been halted again after a fresh attack.[3] The source told AFP that the attack hit "a pumping station east of Riyadh in Khurais. It wasn't targeted before. There was big damage and the pipeline stopped again."[3]Türkiye Today reports that the Houthis said Sunday they had carried out missile and drone strikes on Aramco facilities in Riyadh and the Khurais area, causing fires.[3]Anadolu reports that oil prices pared gains after Bloomberg's report. Prices had risen as much as 1.2% following the earlier report.[2]Before the attack, Aramco had increased flows through the pipeline to more than 80% of its 7 million-barrel-per-day capacity by late last week[2], according to Bloomberg as cited by Anadolu.According to AFP's reporting, carried by Free Malaysia Today, flows in the pipeline remained halted from Sept 11 to 22, according to commodity-tracking platform Kpler[4], after earlier attacks that came from Iraq.