Saudi Arabia says fire extinguished at Aramco facility in Jizan

What the report says

Saudi authorities say a fire at a facility belonging to Saudi Aramco in the coastal city of Jizan was brought under control after breaking out early on Sunday, August 9, 2026. The Saudi Energy Ministry said there were no casualties and said the relevant authorities were carrying out the remaining procedures. The ministry did not say what caused the blaze.

Al Jazeera reported that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi armed group claimed responsibility for an attack on the site, saying it had targeted the Aramco refinery in Jizan with a drone. The group said the strike was in response to what it described as Saudi airspace violations in Yemen’s Saada and Hajjah provinces. Saudi officials had not immediately commented on the claim at the time of the report.

The incident fits into a broader pattern of Houthi claims of strikes on Saudi energy infrastructure, including earlier assertions involving Aramco sites in Jizan and oil installations in Yanbu. The report noted that recent attacks have increased pressure on the fragile 2022 truce in Yemen’s long-running war and added to regional security concerns around Red Sea shipping and Gulf energy assets. Separately, Aramco chief Amin Nasser said last week that some attacks had caused temporary production interruptions, but he expected operations to recover quickly.