Saudi Aramco says resumes pumping oil to Bahrain

Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco), the world's largest crude exporter, said it has resumed pumping crude oil from the pumping station in Dhahran to the Bapco refinery after an explosion forced the closure of the main pipeline, Reuters reported.

“Resumption of operations and pumping of crude oil to the targeted capacity have been reached from the pumping station in Dhahran to the Bapco refinery,” Aramco said in a statement.

Oil to Bahrain is transported through a 55 km pipeline which has a capacity of 230,000 barrels per day (bpd).

Bahrain said an explosion which caused a fire at its main oil pipeline on Friday was caused by “terrorist” sabotage, linking the unprecedented attack to its arch-foe Iran, which denies any role in the Gulf island kingdom’s unrest.