00:00The West Asia war as Iran now attacks multiple energy hubs across the region.
00:06Saudi Arabia has said a drone hit the country's Samref refinery in the port city of Yanbu on the Red
00:13Sea.
00:14The Saudi Defense Ministry announced the news saying without elaborating that damage assessment is underway.
00:22The strike comes as drones also hit two oil refineries in Kuwait.
00:27Now, overnight, Iranian attacks hit natural gas sites in Qatar and the UAE, spiking global prices.
00:35Iran is retaliating over an Israeli strike on Wednesday that happened on its south pass natural gas field in the
00:43Persian Gulf that it shares with Qatar.
00:46And now it is hitting back, it is hitting the energy hubs of the region.
00:51Samref is a joint venture between the kingdom's oil giant Saudi Aramco and ExxonMobil that processes more than 400,000
01:00barrels per day of Arabian light crude oil.
01:03The attack on the Red Sea now reaches into Saudi Arabia's assets there, where it has been trying to lift
01:10crude oil out to the global markets via pipeline to avoid the Strait of Hormuz.
01:16The narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, which remains under Iranian attack and thus remains choked.
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