Saudi Arabia Resumes Yanbu Crude Loadings as East-West Pipeline Partially Restarts - News and Statistics

Oct 3, 2026 Saudi Arabia has begun loading crude oil again at its Red Sea terminal in Yanbu following the partial restart of the East-West pipeline, Reuters said on Tuesday, pointing to ship-tracking information and industry sources. The onshore East-West pipeline had been offline for a fortnight after drone strikes on September 10 harmed pumping stations. That conduit lets the Kingdom avoid the Strait of Hormuz. It came back into partial operation last Thursday, though restoring full volumes of roughly 4 million barrels per day would probably require several weeks. Even so, crude cargoes are once more being loaded at Yanbu port and the Al Muajjiz terminal located to the south of Yanbu, relieving pressure on Middle East supplies. Aramco, the Saudi state-controlled oil producer, told customers late on Monday what the October loading timetable at Yanbu would be, an Asian refiner source said to Reuters. According to TankerTrackers.com, satellite images taken over the Red Sea on Sunday indicated Saudi Arabia was loading close to 10 million barrels of crude at Yanbu and Al Muajjiz. The tracking company stated in a post on X that it had visually pinpointed 40 tankers altogether, without regard to what they were doing or how near they were to those terminals. With Yanbu loadings and Saudi crude shipments beyond the Strait of Hormuz resuming, worldwide oil supply should rise, though greater Houthi dangers to Saudi tankers in the Red Sea persist. Kpler estimates that Middle East crude exports have climbed back to roughly 12.8 million barrels per day during September so far, after Saudi Arabia shifted flows from west to east following the pipeline disruption. Aramco has been putting crude onto tankers in the Gulf of Oman through ship-to-ship transfers. 1. 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