Fire extinguished at Aramco facility in Jazan, Saudi Arabia says

Firefighters extinguished a fire ​that broke out early on ​Sunday at a facility at Saudi Aramco's ​Jazan refinery in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Energy Ministry said, adding that there were no injuries. Aramco's industrial security teams had brought the ‌fire under control ⁠and ⁠the relevant authorities were completing procedures to deal with the incident, ​the ministry said on X. It did not say what caused the ​fire.

Jazan is on the Red Sea near the border with Yemen. Aramco shut down its 400,000 barrel-per-day Jazan ​refinery on July 27 following an attack ⁠by Yemen's ‌Houthi militants that damaged the plant's Integrated ​Gasification Combined ​Cycle (IGCC) complex and tank farm area, according ⁠to a note from consultancy IIR seen by ​Reuters.

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The Houthis said at the time they ​had struck Aramco sites in Jazan and Yanbu. The attacks raised the prospect that threats to Red Sea shipping and Saudi oil infrastructure could widen global disruption stemming from the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and Iranian attacks on ‌shipping around the Strait of Hormuz. Aramco chief Amin Nasser said last week that recent ​attacks on the ​company's facilities had ⁠caused some production interruptions but that he was confident operations could be restored quickly. He said the attacks had no material operational ​or financial impact.

The Houthis declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea last month in response to what they described as a Saudi siege of Yemen, an allegation Riyadh denies.