‘West Asia oil shipment may be impacted in short term due to drone attacks’

Continuing attacks on ships, particularly crude oil tankers in and around the Red Sea, will definitely affect crude shipments from the Middle East in the short term, officials from the Petroleum Ministry said over the weekend after two ships connected to India were fired upon.

Late on Saturday, a crude oil tanker, potentially owned by an Indian entity, the M/V Sai Baba, was hit by a one-way attack drone, the United States Central…