Oil Tanker Owner Says Ship Attacked in #Saudi Arabian Red Sea - Bloomberg

Oil Tanker Owner Says Ship Attacked in Saudi Arabian Red Sea - Bloomberg

An oil tanker came under attack while at a Saudi Arabian terminal in the Red Sea about 125 miles north of the country’s border with Yemen, according to the vessel’s owner.

The Agrari, a so-called Aframax-class vessel able to haul about 700,000 barrels of oil, was holed about 1 meter above the waterline in the incident, a statement distributed on behalf of the carrier’s owner said. The incident took place as the ship was preparing to leave a berth at the Shuqaiq facility, having finished unloading its cargo, it said.

It wasn’t clear who launched the attack and no one claimed responsibility. A few hours after the incident, state TV reported that Saudi-led coalition forces were destroying an explosives-laden boat and a commercial vessel was damaged in the process.

The incident wasn’t at a crude oil export facility and will almost certainly have zero effect Saudi Arabia’s capacity to produce or export oil. It follows a separate low-level attack on Monday, in which Yemen’s Houthis fired a missile at a Saudi Aramco fuel depot in Jeddah, the kingdom’s second-biggest city. The resulting blaze was extinguished in 40 minutes.