Saudi Arabian officials told a senior foreign diplomat they face a “severe” disruption measured in weeks and months.
Damage to the Abqaiq facility is more severe than previously thought
Abqaiq’s stabilization towers, which separate gaseous compounds from crude oil, could take the longest to repair, said Phillip Cornell, a former senior corporate planning adviser to Aramco. “They can take weeks or months to get specialized parts,” he said at an event hosted by the Atlantic Council in Washington.
Five out of 18 stabilization towers appear to have been taken out and the pictures that have been released show “very specific, accurate targeting of those particular infrastructures,” Cornell said.
Aramco to Face Weeks Without the Majority of Abqaiq’s Oil Output: Bloomberg
