Attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas sector are threatening the kingdom’s ability to ensure energy security, the country’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said at the World Government Summit in Dubai while adding that the markets are going through a “jittery period.” His comments came after Saudi Arabia faced another attack from Iran-backed Houthis on March 25. Cross-border attacks have compromised “our ability to supply the world with the necessary energy requirements,” the minister said, according to AP. “It goes without saying that if this security supply is impacted, it will impact us … but more fundamentally, I think it also will affect the world economy.” Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates could once rely on a collective effort to protect energy security. But these “pillars” are no longer there, the prince added. After the Houthis took over Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa in 2014, the country …
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