ANZ analysts said in the research report that Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline is expected to be temporarily shut down, but this attack on the pipeline has raised the risk of overall supply disruptions in the Middle East region. Analysts including Daniel Hines and Sony Kumari say the pipeline is likely to be out of service for a short period of time, and similar disruptions in history can generally be repaired within one to two weeks. Despite this, the attack shows that the regional energy infrastructure is now a direct target for armed proxy groups in Iran and its surrounding area. If more supply disruptions occur in the future, in the context of the oil market's buffer space continuing to narrow, the market can only rebalance supply and demand by suppressing demand by pushing up oil prices.

ANZ analysts said in the research report that Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline is expected to be temporarily shut down, but this attack on the pipeline has raised the risk of overall supply disruptions in the Middle East region. Analysts including Daniel Hines and Sony Kumari say the pipeline is likely to be out of service for a short period of time, and similar disruptions in history can generally be repaired within one to two weeks. Despite this, the attack shows that the regional energy infrastructure is now a direct target for armed proxy groups in Iran and its surrounding area. If more supply disruptions occur in the future, in the context of the oil market's buffer space continuing to narrow, the market can only rebalance supply and demand by suppressing demand by pushing up oil prices.