
Satellite Image Shows Damage That Shut Key Saudi Oil Pipeline, BBC Reports
Analysis cited by BBC Verify indicates the pipeline's closure could reduce oil supplies by up to 3.6 million barrels per day.

Analysis cited by BBC Verify indicates the pipeline's closure could reduce oil supplies by up to 3.6 million barrels per day.

Saudi officials say the launch site used in a strike on a Saudi oil pipeline was traced to Iraq's Maysan province, near the Iranian border, before Iraqi authorities seized the equipment.
An unnamed Iraqi official said a security task force located and confiscated the platform used to launch drones that targeted a Saudi oil pipeline.
An explainer on the Petroline system, Saudi Arabia’s key overland crude route that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz, following reports of a precautionary shutdown.

Riyadh says the attack, confirmed by satellite imagery, originated in Iraq.

Riyadh says drones launched from Iraq forced the temporary closure of the East-West pipeline, a route increasingly relied upon to bypass the blocked Strait of Hormuz.