Houthis may have struck Saudi oil pipeline
The Houthis may have hit Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline, but the alleged attack has not been independently confirmed. Satellite data showed thermal anomalies in the area, while the data did not establish what caused them or whether the pipeline was hit.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis may have struck Saudi Arabia’s critical East-West oil pipeline, which runs roughly 746 miles from Abqaiq in the kingdom’s Eastern Province to Yanbu on the Red Sea, although the alleged attack has not been independently confirmed. Satellite Data Shows Fire According to satellite images from NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) on Thursday, the agency detected eight thermal anomalies in the area, including several classified with high detection confidence. The data does not establish what caused the anomalies or whether the pipeline itself was hit.
Source: NASA FIRMS Unverified satellite imagery, as well as ground images shared on the social media platform X, purport to show fire incidents that took place in the region. BREAKING: First ground-level image of the massive 100 km black smoke column rising from Saudi Arabia's East-West crude pipeline, captured ~6h ago, after Yemen's Houthis struck the pipeline on multiple points, the same plume seen on Sentinel-3 satellite imagery.
com/1p9S8ghXlx — The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) September 10, 2026 The East-West pipeline was constructed in the 1980s as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz after tensions between Iran and Iraq threatened the movement of oil through the waterway. The pipeline has a capacity of 7 million barrels per day. by S&P Global in March 2026.
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