By Elvan Kivilcim

Saudi Arabia restored "full pumping capacity" to its East-West pipeline, the kingdom's primary crude oil export outlet, the Saudi energy ministry said on social media.

The pipeline, which lost around 700,000 barrels of daily pumping capacity after it was hit by an Iranian attack last week, is again moving about 7 million barrels of crude a day, the ministry said. The pipeline connects Saudi Arabia's oil fields in the east to the Yanbu port on the Red Sea and became a vital route for exports to markets worldwide after the Strait of Hormuz was closed by Iran.

The ministry also said that daily crude oil production at the Manifa oil field, reduced by 300,000 barrels due to Iran's attacks, had been restored "in a short period" and that efforts continue to revive full production capacity at Khurais oil field, which lost 300,000 barrels of crude production a day.

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