According to Saudi Arabia's official news agency (WAS), Saudi Arabia's east-west oil pipeline, vital to bypassing the blocked Strait of Hormuz, was attacked and caught fire, but the oil transfer operation continued without interruption.
An official from the Ministry of Energy of Saudi Arabia announced that this oil pipeline in Medina region in the west of the country was attacked, which led to a "limited fire" and this fire was contained and extinguished immediately.
This official did not name the perpetrators of this attack, but the Houthis in Yemen, who are supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran, have attacked Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure many times in the past with drones and missiles. This strategic pipeline provides the possibility to transfer oil to the port terminal of the Red Sea without the need to cross the waterway of the Persian Gulf.