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How Saudi Arabia Has Emerged Stronger From Attacks - Saudi Aramco CEO

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Chief Executive Officer of Saudi Aramco, Amin Nasser on Saturday told employees that Saudi Aramco has emerged from attacks on its oil facilities “stronger than ever”, adding that full oil production would resume by the end of this month.

The September 14 attacks on the Abqaiq and Khurais plants, some of Saudi Arabia's biggest, caused raging fires and significant damage that halved the crude output of the world's top oil exporter, by shutting down 5.7 million barrels per day of production.

 

Nasser's internal message reads in part

 

“The fires that were intended to destroy Saudi Aramco had an unintended consequence: they galvanized 70,000 of us around a mission to rebound quickly and confidently, and Saudi Aramco has come out of this incident stronger than ever,”

 

"Every second counts in moments like these, and had we not acted quickly to contain the fires and undertake rapid restoration efforts, the impact on the oil market and the global economy would have been far more devastating.”
Six days after the assault, which hit at the heart of the Saudi energy industry and intensified a decades-long struggle with archrival Iran, the state oil giant Aramco invited reporters on Friday to observe the damage and the repair efforts.

 

Thousands of employees and contractors have been pulled from other projects to work around the clock to bring production back. Aramco is shipping equipment from the United States and Europe to rebuild the damaged facilities, Aramco officials told reporters.
Aramco already brought back part of the lost production and will return to pre-attacks level by the end of September, Nasser said.

 

“Not a single shipment to our international customers has been missed or cancelled as a result of the attacks, and we will continue to fulfill our mission of providing the energy the world needs.” (Reuters)

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