Yemen and the Red Sea

Satellite imagery pinpoints Jazan Aramco storage tanks destroyed after Houthi strike

This version is a correction.

ASSESSMENT
Location
Jazan Oil Refinery storage tank area (satellite-geolocated)
Actors
Houthis · Saudi Arabia
Importance
Notable

Open-source satellite analysis after the 25 July Houthi Aramco package geolocated burning and destroyed oil storage tanks at the Jazan Oil Refinery and nearby bulk plant, including a tank fire at about 17.2866°N 42.3857°E still visible days later.

EGYOSINT published commercial and Sentinel-2 imagery (27 July–1 August 2026) showing multi-day tank fires and later burn scars at Saudi Aramco’s Jazan Oil Refinery and Jazan Bulk Plant after the Houthi missile/drone claim of 25 July. This package is the site-level BDA follow-up to the coarser campaign claim already recorded as red-sea:aramco-jizan-yanbu — not a second attack night. Origin remains Houthi-held Yemen without a published launch pad, so the geometry stays a point at the impacted tank farm rather than a strike-route.

  • Energy: Best 3 storage_tanks_destroyed · Confidence: Probable · Evidence: Beijing-3A imagery: large fire at Jazan Oil Refinery storage tank 17.286648, 42.385668, Sentinel-2 31 July: at least three Jazan storage tanks destroyed, two more damaged, Yemen's Houthis announce strikes on Aramco oil facilities in Saudi Arabia · EGYOSINT Sentinel-2 count of tanks destroyed/damaged at Jazan refinery complex.

Verification: Confirmed

Evidence: Beijing-3A imagery: large fire at Jazan Oil Refinery storage tank 17.286648, 42.385668, Sentinel-2 31 July: at least three Jazan storage tanks destroyed, two more damaged, Yemen's Houthis announce strikes on Aramco oil facilities in Saudi Arabia

Impact geometry multi-sourced via satellite OSINT (EGYOSINT) with tank-level coordinates; attribution to the 25 July Houthi package is probable from the temporal link and Houthi claim, not a pad-level launch fix.