According to the statement made by the Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry, on Saturday Yemen’s Houthi rebels used drones to carry out an attack on the kingdom’s oil processing facility and a principal oilfield operated by Saudi Aramco.

On Saturday, Yahia Sarie made a televised appeal, in which she confirmed that the rebels had sent 10 drones in order to attack the Abqaiq oil processing facility and the Khurais oil field. He emphasized that attacks against the kingdom would take a turn for the worse if the war in Yemen continued.

Saudi Aramco emphasized that its Abqaiq facility can process 7m barrels of crude daily.