Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Aramco Pounded by Yemen Tribesmen

An Asian worker covers his face to protect it from the dust and the blazing sun at the site of Saudi Aramco's (the national oil company) Al-Khurais central oil processing facility under construction in the Saudi Arabian desert, 160 kms east of the capital Riyadh, on June 23, 2008The facilities of the Saudi giant oil firm, Aramco, came under attack by Yemeni tribesmen, Arab media reports said Monday.
The Arabic-language al-Mayadeen satellite channel quoted a tribal source in the Yemeni province of Sa’ada as saying that the country’s tribesmen targeted a facility of the Saudi Arabian oil company, Aramco, in Dhahran al-Janub, in the country’s  in the southwestern Asir region. There was no immediate word of anyone killed or injured in the attack.
Local residents in the nearby area said they heard loud blasts at Aramco's oil installations and "smoke spiraling up from the facilities".
Earlier in the day Yemen’s rebel Houthi fighters once again fired mortar shells on the Saudi border city of Najran in retaliation for the Saudi-led collation airstrikes across Yemen.

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