Saudi Arabia has temporarily halted production at two Aramco oil facilities that were attacked by Yemeni rebels, interrupting about half of the company’s total output, the energy minister said Saturday.
The attacks “resulted in a temporary suspension of production at Abqaiq and Khurais plants,” Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, the energy minister said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
It led to the interruption of about 50 per cent of total production, he added.
“These attacks resulted in production suspension of 5.7 million barrels of crude oil per day,” the state-owned Aramco said in a separate statement.
