Oil settles $3 higher on attacks on Saudi energy sites, Strait of Hormuz disruptions

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By Siddharth Cavale NEW YORK, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Oil prices jumped on Thursday and settled up by $3 a barrel after attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure escalated and shipping disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz threatened global oil flows. Brent futures settled at $95.82 a barrel, up $3.06 or 3.3%. US West Texas Intermediate crude closed at $88.74 a barrel, up $2.21 or 2.6%.

NEW YORK, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Oil prices jumped on Thursday and settled up by $3 a barrel after attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure escalated and shipping disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz threatened global oil flows.

Brent futures settled at $95.82 a barrel, up $3.06 or 3.3%. US West Texas Intermediate crude closed at $88.74 a barrel, up $2.21 or 2.6%.

Trade was volatile, with crude selling off early and then rebounding after Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said they had attacked a pumping station on the Saudi East-West oil pipeline; an oil facility in the Saudi Red Sea city of Yanbu; and an Aramco building in the capital Riyadh.

Later, the Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Houthis said it had intercepted and destroyed two drones launched by the group, one in the Riyadh region and another in the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province.

In the Gulf, tankers are still ablaze, oil spills are washing ashore and drones and missiles have hit infrastructure across the region. On Thursday, Iran's military said four oil tankers were hit by explosions in the Strait of Hormuz after ignoring warnings. Reuters could not immediately verify the Iranian accounts.

Attacks on shipping in the Middle East have increased in recent weeks. The Strait of Hormuz carried nearly one-fifth of the world's crude oil before the US-Israeli conflict with Iran.

Elsewhere, Ukraine said its drones hit the port area of Ust-Luga on the Baltic Sea in Russia's northwest, triggering a fire and damaging part of its network of fuel tanks, its latest attack on Russian energy infrastructure. Ust-Luga is a major oil, oil products and grain export outlet, along with other commodities.

"The tit-for-tat exchanges between Russia and Ukraine and attacks on shipping by the IRGC are beginning to add ... price pressure," said Timothy Snyder, chief economist at Matador Economics.

"It is beginning to look like investors are growing weary from hearing the same song on peace prospects."

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