Attacks on Saudi oil facilities cut 5% of global oil supply

Sep 15, 2019, 5:05 AM (GMT+3)

Saudi Arabia said on Saturday night that drone strikes on its key oil facilities, among the world's largest and most important energy production centers, have disrupted about half of the kingdom's oil capacity, or 5% of the daily global oil supply.

Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said in a statement quoted by CNN that 5.7 million barrels a day of crude oil and gas production have been affected. The latest OPEC figures from August 2019 put the total Saudi production at 9.8 million barrels per day.