Saudi Aramco

Aramco offering to manage logistics and transport the crude all the way to Asian customers

Houthis say they had also attacked an Aramco facility in Yanbu, a key Saudi oil export hub

The East-West pipeline was built in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war

Most processors in China, Taiwan and India were asked to collect their oil from Yanbu

The group’s forces fire two drones at the refinery and hit it, with the attack causing negligible damage to a tank

The refinery was targeted with a drone

Firm now faces more risks as Yemen’s Houthi group threatens to attack tankers using Red Sea route 

The Saudi oil producer has yet to finalise details of the mechanism, including its starting date, say traders

Separately, Iran accuses Ukraine of attacking an Iranian commercial vessel in the ​Caspian Sea