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\n Saudi Arabia confirmed attacks against its oil and gas facilities, including the crucial East-West Pipeline, state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, citing an anonymous official from the Ministry of Energy.\n <\/p>\n
\n The report dated Thursday did not say when the attacks took place but it said one Saudi national w\ufeffas killed and seven others wounded.\n <\/p>\n
\n The SPA report indicated recent attacks on the kingdom\u2019s energy infrastructure have had a significant impact on both the production and transport of oil, affecting more than one million barrels a day.\n <\/p>\n
\n Attacks on the East-West Pipeline have lead to the loss of \u201capproximately 700,000 barrels per day\u201d while other infrastructure attacks have reduced capacity by a further 600,000 barrels per day, SPA said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat would bring the regional total of supply impacted to 12.1 million bpd (barrels per day),\u201d Amena Bakr, an analyst at data intelligence and analytics platform Kpler, told CNN, referring to the overall impact across the Gulf region.\n <\/p>\n
\n Gulf nations have mostly remained tight-lipped in recent week on exactly how much damage has been wrought on their oil and gas producing facilities by Iran\u2019s attacks.\n <\/p>\n
\n Bakr added that the East-West Pipeline \u201chas been key to bypassing\u201d the blocked Strait of Hormuz.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cMoreover we are not seeing any improvement with regards to flows via Hormuz,\u201d she added.\n <\/p>\n