Fire Extinguished at Aramco Refinery in Jizan After Blaze

A fire broke out early on Sunday, August 9, 2026, at a facility belonging to Saudi Aramco's refinery in Jizan, southwestern Saudi Arabia, according to the Saudi Energy Ministry. The ministry confirmed in a post on the social media platform X that the company's industrial firefighting teams extinguished the blaze and that no injuries were reported. Authorities were completing necessary procedures to handle the incident, though the cause was not immediately specified.

The Jizan refinery, located on the Red Sea near the border with Yemen, processes approximately 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day to produce refined products including gasoline and ultralight sulfur diesel. The facility was temporarily shut down on July 27 following an attack by Yemen's Houthi militants that damaged the plant's Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle complex and tank farm area, according to a note from consultancy IIR.

The Houthis claimed responsibility for the latest incident. Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Yahya Saree stated that Yemeni forces carried out a drone strike on the Aramco refinery in Jizan, claiming a direct hit. Saree said the targeting was in response to Saudi Arabia's breach of the...