(March 15): Oil-loading operations at a key port in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have resumed after a drone strike and fire on Saturday forced a halt to exports.
Operations at Fujairah — which sits outside the Strait of Hormuz — have restarted, according to people familiar with the situation, who can’t be identified as they are not authorised to comment. Calls to the port, as well as state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (Adnoc), were not answered.
The blaze was extinguished as of early Sunday morning, Bloomberg News reported earlier.
Fujairah sits at the end of a pipeline allowing the UAE to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil choke point that has been all-but-closed because of the war between the US, Israel and Iran. A drone was intercepted Saturday and falling debris caused the fire, Fujairah’s media office said.
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