“Saudi Energy”: Restoring full pumping capacity through the Sharq Pipeline

Today, the Saudi Ministry of Energy announced the success of operational and technical efforts to restore full pumping capacity through the East-West pipeline, amounting to about seven million barrels per day, and to restore the affected quantities of Manifa field production, amounting to about 300 thousand barrels per day, within a short period of time.

The Ministry said, in a statement published by the Saudi Press Agency, that in addition to its statement issued on April 9 regarding the impact of some energy system facilities in the Kingdom as a result of the targeting, including the loss of about 700,000 barrels per day of pumping capacity through the East-West Pipeline, and a decrease in the production of the Manifa field by about 300,000 barrels per day, in addition to the impact of the production of the Khurais field by about 300,000 barrels per day, it announces the success of the operational efforts and the recovery of the affected quantities.

She added that with regard to the Khurais field, work is still underway to restore full production capacity, and this will be announced when completed.