A fire at Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery was extinguished early Sunday with no injuries reported, Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry said, as the Houthi movement claimed responsibility for a drone attack on the facility.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said the operation was carried out with a drone and that the strike was accurate. The ministry did not disclose the cause of the blaze, saying industrial security teams put out the fire and that authorities were completing procedures to address the incident.
The Jazan refinery can process up to 400,000 barrels of crude per day, producing gasoline, ultra-low-sulphur diesel, benzene and paraxylene. The incident marks at least the second fire at the facility within a month, after satellite images showed a storage tank burning in late July. The Houthis claimed attacks on Aramco sites in Jazan and Yanbu in late July, their first strikes against Saudi oil infrastructure since 2022.