Houthi forces say they struck Aramco oil distribution site in Jeddah

The claimed strike follows a separate attack on Aramco's Dhahran headquarters on Tuesday night that Saudi officials say caused a limited fire.

Yemen's armed forces said they targeted Saudi Aramco oil distribution facilities in northern Jeddah. Saudi authorities have not confirmed damage from the strike.

The claim comes a day after a separate attack hit Aramco's headquarters complex in Dhahran. Saudi Arabia's energy ministry said that strike caused a limited fire, with no injuries or fatalities. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reported the attack damaged about three floors of a tower block that houses some of Aramco's main functions, including its operations management office.

The Jeddah facility is a distribution site rather than the pipeline pump stations, Yanbu loadings or refinery plants that have driven previous jumps in oil prices this year. A September 16 attack, a 17-minute assault using 18 drones and three low-flying missiles that the Houthis claimed, knocked out more than 5% of global oil supply before Saudi Arabia said roughly two weeks later that output had been fully restored. Other sites hit this year include the Satorp refinery in Jubail, a joint venture between Aramco and TotalEnergies that processes 465,000 barrels a day, and the Samref refinery in Yanbu, a 400,000 barrel-a-day joint venture between Aramco and ExxonMobil.

The strikes come as Saudi Arabia has resumed its military campaign in Yemen against the Houthis, hitting the capital Sanaa this week as fighting intensifies. Most previous strikes on Saudi territory had targeted infrastructure on the outskirts of Riyadh, but barrages have been moving closer to the city center. Aramco chief executive Amin Nasser has said commercial oil inventories are near a two-year low, a sign of how tight supply has become even before distribution sites like the one in Jeddah are hit. A distribution facility matters less for export volumes than upstream or pipeline assets, so whether this strike registers beyond another contested, unconfirmed episode will depend on whether it shows up in actual fuel flows rather than in claims and denials.