Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry said it had contained a fire following a March 19 drone attack on its Riyadh refinery, with no interruption to oil supplies and no casualties, in the latest strike claimed by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now The Houthis had earlier announced a hit on an unspecified Saudi Aramco facility in the Saudi capital, in an attack using six drones. The Riyadh refinery has a crude distillation capacity of about 140,000 b/d. The attack also comes two days before Aramco is set to announce its full-year 2020 earnings on March 21. “The kingdom strongly condemns this cowardly attack and affirms that the terrorist and subversive acts, which are repeatedly committed against vital installations and civilian objects, are not only targeting the kingdom, but, more broadly, the security and stability of the world’s energy […]