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There has been at least one post on Saudi switching from sweet oil to sour oil to meet its export contracts, and folks on twitter noted that fairly early on. Japan was one of the first countries to be affected according to tweets.
Today from a reader, a comment posted elsewhere:
The Abqaiq refinery...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq
The 250-hectare complex can process 7 million barrels of oil a day.
The chief purpose of Abqaiq is to remove hydrogen sulfide from crude oil and reduce the vapor pressure, making the crude safe to be shipped in tankers. Abqaiq is the world's largest facility for this stabilization.
Hence, damage to that fits in with their switch from sweet to sour crude exports.
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