Flames rose from an Aramco facility south of Riyadh on Saturday as the Houthis said they had targeted it with missiles and drones.
The group said it had started fires at the energy giant’s refinery.
Within the same 24-hour period, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said Saudi Arabia had carried out 94 airstrikes in Yemen, using fighter jets and missiles. He said the attacks hit civilian sites in the Sanaa, Saada, Taiz, Hajjah, Amran and Ibb governorates, causing deaths and injuries.
The Houthi accounts of the strikes, casualties and damage at the Aramco site could not be independently verified from the information available.
On Saturday, the Houthis separately accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out 26 airstrikes on Sanaa. Houthi-affiliated Al-Masirah TV reported that “Saudi enemy aircraft” had struck the Yemeni capital.
Saree said Saudi Arabia had carried out 1,350 strikes since the escalation began.
The exchange came after Cabinet members in President Donald Trump’s administration met on Friday to discuss Yemen and Iran, Axios reported. The meeting was not officially announced, and details of the discussion were unknown.
Yemen’s conflict pits the Houthis, who control much of the northwest, against the internationally recognised government, which holds southern and eastern regions.
Taiz remains a central front in the civil war.
Renewed fighting has deepened Yemen’s humanitarian crisis. On Friday, the World Food Programme warned that three-quarters of Yemen’s population cannot meet basic food needs.
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