The refinery was targeted with a droneHouthi militants also claimed responsibility for a separate attack on the Aramco refinery in Jazan on Jul 25. PHOTO: REUTERSYEMEN’S Iran-aligned Houthis said they had attacked Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery on Sunday (Aug 9), two days after the kingdom signed a defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan. The Saudi energy ministry said a fire had broken out at the refinery that was later extinguished, without saying what caused the fire. It said the relevant authorities were completing procedures to deal with the incident at the refinery, which processes 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day in south-western Saudi Arabia. The Houthis declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea in July in response to what they described as a Saudi siege of Yemen, an allegation Riyadh denies.