What this organisation is
Saudi Aramco operates the kingdom's production, the Abqaiq processing complex, the Ras Tanura terminal on the Gulf and the East–West (Petroline) system that carries crude across the peninsula to Yanbu on the Red Sea. The Petroline carries a roughly 7 million b/d emergency ceiling established in 2019 — never a demonstrated sustained rate — and Aramco announced a ramp to full capacity on 10–11 March 2026. Wartime handling at Yanbu is estimated commercially at about 3 million b/d, of which roughly 2 million goes to Aramco's own Red Sea refineries before export crude can load, and an Iranian drone strike in April 2026 temporarily disabled about 700,000 b/d of it. Every alternative to Hormuz combined is estimated at 3.5 to 5.5 million b/d against a normal strait volume of about 20 million: a capacity comparison, not a measurement of what moved. The Ministry of Energy shut the East–West line as a precaution after a drone attack on 10 September 2026. Reuters reported it restarted at a low rate on 22 September on unnamed sources, and Yanbu loadings were reported resumed between 25 and 28 September on trade sources and tracker data, with throughput estimated at about 2 to 2.65 million b/d by an industry source and Kpler. Neither Aramco nor the ministry had stated a restart, a rate or a damage assessment by 3 October 2026.
The organisation whose system is the module's central bypass number — and the reason that number is a ceiling, not a flow.
الثقة: متوسطة حتى 2026-10-01رُوجع 2026-10-04
Official name: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
Published facilities
Each is a marker the module already publishes; the relationship is this record’s own claim, with its own grade and source.
- رأس تنورةميناء
- بقيقمركز صناعي
- ممر خط الأنابيب بين الشرق والغرب (Petroline)ممر · شريان إمداد وتجارة
The East–West pipeline system; the 2019 emergency ceiling is Aramco's own figure.
- ينبعميناء
- جازانمصفاة
Every claim on this record is an announcement or a target. Nothing here is recorded as commissioned or delivered.
A ramp of the East–West system to full capacity, announced 10–11 March 2026, against a roughly 7 million b/d emergency ceiling established in 2019 that was never a demonstrated sustained rate.
Systems it belongs to
Supply systems it runs on
Commodities and outputs
النفط الخام والمنتجات المكرَّرة
Owners, controllers and arrangements
Watch questions bearing on it
ما لا يزال مجهولًا
- No published sustained throughput for the East–West system under wartime conditions was read; the module carries the ceiling and the commercial estimate of Yanbu handling, labelled as such.
- No Aramco or ministry statement of the September restart, its rate or the damage to the pumping stations had been published by 3 October 2026; every figure for the restarted line is a tracker's or an unnamed source's.
التقييم حتى — 2026-10-01 آخر مراجعة — 2026-10-04