WSJ News Exclusive | To Keep Exports Flowing, Saudi Arabia Looks to Import Oil

Attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities are changing global trade flows in unusual ways

After attacks on the country’s largest oil facilities, Saudi Arabia is reaching out to foreign producers for crude and other petroleum products, upending its usual trade flows to plug gaps in its own supply.

Missiles knocked out roughly half of the country’s crude production, and the disruption to Saudi supplies is having knock-on effects all along the global oil-supply chain. To maintain its reputation as a reliable supplier, the world’s largest oil exporter is looking to buy crude oil from at least one of its neighbors and...

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