{"id":315030,"date":"2019-09-14T07:15:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T07:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315030"},"modified":"2019-09-14T07:15:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T07:15:49","slug":"drone-attacks-major-saudi-arabias-oil-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/drone-attacks-major-saudi-arabias-oil-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone attacks major Saudi Arabia&#8217;s oil facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><del><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315032 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190914-124222__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1018\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190914-124222__01.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190914-124222__01-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190914-124222__01-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190914-124222__01-696x418.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_20190914-124222__01-700x420.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/del>Drones attacked two major oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia early on Saturday, sparking a huge fire at one of the sites before dawn, the kingdom&#8217;s interior ministry said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A huge fire began after the Saudi Aramco sites were targeted by drones, the ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It was not clear if there were any injuries in the assault on the processing plant in Buqyaq and at the Khurais oil field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The fires are now under control at both facilities, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. The ministry said investigations were going on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The plant has been targeted in the past by militants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Saudi Aramco describes its Abqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, 330 kilometres north-east of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, as the largest crude oil stabilization plant in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drones attacked two major oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia early on Saturday, sparking a huge fire at one of the sites before dawn, the kingdom&#8217;s interior ministry said. A huge fire began after the Saudi Aramco sites were targeted by drones, the ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[1782],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315033,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315030\/revisions\/315033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}