French energy giant TotalEnergies said Friday that it had shut down a major refinery on the eastern Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia after it was damaged during the Middle East war.
The Saudi energy ministry had announced Thursday “multiple attacks” recently on its oil and gas sites, including the SATORP refinery, a joint venture owned by TotalEnergies and the Saudi state-owned Aramco group.
No details on production impacts, nor the type of attack, were disclosed.
TotalEnergies cited only “incidents that occurred during the night of April 7 to 8, causing damage to one of the refinery’s two processing trains”.
No casualties were reported, and Total said both units were shut down as a precaution while assessing the damage.
The Saudi energy ministry had referred to SATORP when announcing that recent attacks carried out by Iran against the kingdom’s energy infrastructure killed one person and impacted its oil production capacity.
A ministry official told the SPA news agency that the attacks “disrupted several production operations at key facilities”.
Aramco has a 62.5 percent stake in SATORP, with TotalEnergies holding the remaining 37.5 percent.
Iran has targeted energy infrastructure and other sites in neighbouring Gulf countries in retaliation for the attacks launched by the United States and Israel on February 28th.
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