Hyderabad, Sept. 11 -- A possible Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia's East-West crude oil pipeline has been reported in the desert southeast of Madinah, with satellite imagery showing a large smoke plume and fire-detection data indicating sustained thermal activity along the route.

In a post on X on Friday, September 11, The Hormuz Letter said Sentinel-3 imagery showed a black smoke plume stretching nearly 100 kilometres across the desert southeast of Madinah, along the pipeline route towards Mahd adh-Dhahab.

NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) also detected several thermal anomalies in the area. The satellite-based system identifies active fire locations but cannot determine what caused them or whether oil infras...