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Oil loadings halt at Saudi Arabia's Yanbu after East-West pipeline shutdown

Mountain Time
Local time
6:05 PM in Riyadh
Where
Yanbu, Saudi Arabia

Oil loadings stopped at Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port of Yanbu, shipping sources told Reuters, four days after drones launched from Iraq forced the shutdown of the East-West pipeline that feeds the terminal.

Why it matters

Yanbu had become the kingdom's main export outlet while Hormuz is disrupted; halting it leaves buyers, especially in Asia, short of Saudi crude.

Sources (3)

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Correction

  • Corrected the time from 6:28 PM Riyadh time, Sep 15, 2026 to 6:05 PM Riyadh time, Sep 15, 2026; corrected the headline (it read "Oil loadings remain suspended at Saudi Arabia's Yanbu port after pipeline attack"); revised the summary; revised the context note; reclassified it from energy to energy-infrastructure; updated the sourcing note; added a source: Al Jazeera live blog. Why and evidence