{"id":42348,"date":"2026-03-02T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42348"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:04:26","slug":"saudi-aramco-closes-ras-tanura-refinery-after-drone-strike-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42348","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Aramco closes Ras Tanura refinery after drone strike, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s state oil giant Aramco shut its Ras Tanura refinery following a drone strike, an industry source said on Monday, after Tehran launched strikes across the region in response to the US-Israeli attack on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: Reports indicate Iran has struck Saudi oil infrastructure, with strikes said to have affected the Aramco facility at Ras Tanura amid the wider regional escalation.<\/p>\n<p>Ras Tanura is one of the largest oil refining and export facilities in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery is\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/R9nujReTKo<br \/>\n\u2014 Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) March 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Ras Tanura complex, on the kingdom&#8217;s Gulf coast, houses one of the Middle East&#8217;s largest refineries with a capacity of 550,000 barrels per day and serves as a critical export terminal for Saudi crude.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Israel widens war with strikes on Tehran, Beirut as Trump signals weeks-long Iran campaign<\/p>\n<p>It was shut as a precautionary measure and the situation is under control, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Aramco did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The drone strike added to a wave of attacks on the Gulf, including on Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Manama and Oman&#8217;s commercial part of Duqm. The strikes have paralysed major shipping hubs in the United Arab Emirates and Oman and sent Brent crude futures LCOc1 surging roughly 10% on Monday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s state oil giant Aramco shut its Ras Tanura refinery following a drone strike, an industry source said on Monday, after Tehran launched strikes across the region in response to the US-Israeli attack on Iran. \ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: Reports indicate Iran has struck Saudi oil infrastructure, with strikes said to have affected the Aramco facility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}