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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The Tadawul (Saudi Arabia) index lost nearly 2% on Sunday, the first day of trading after attacks on two Aramco oil plants in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia.
The Dubai benchmark also fell 1% in the first hour, and the Qatar index fell by only a third percentage point.
The attacks on Saudi oil facilities, which are among the largest and most important energy production centers in the world, have disrupted nearly half of the Kingdom's oil production capacity, or about 5% of the country's oil production capacity. the world's daily oil supply.
The Minister of Energy, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, said the attacks had led to the suspension of crude oil supply of about 5.7 million barrels, or 50% of the production of the company, as well as associated gas production for approximately 2 billion cubic feet per day.
The spokesman of the US Department of Energy, Rick Perry, confirmed that his country was ready to "deploy if necessary resources from strategic oil reserves to make up for any disruption of the oil markets," and ordered the Department of Energy to collaborate with the International Energy Agency (IEA), about possible options for collective global action, "he told CNN.
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