Saudi ​Arabia has restarted operations at its East-West pipeline and could resume exports from the ⁠Red Sea port of ⁠Yanbu later Tuesday, a report said.

Drone attacks forced Saudi Arabia to ​shut the key pipeline earlier this month, halting ⁠crude loadings at the kingdom's Yanbu port.

The resumption of supplies Tuesday helped to drive selling on global oil markets, traders said. Brent crude futures fell by more than $2 a barrel to its lowest since Sept. 8.

Since the disruption to oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz following the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, OPEC's leading oil exporter has been using the pipeline to ⁠reroute ⁠around 4 million barrels per day, around 4% of global supply, to Yanbu.

The pipeline was pumping at a low rate after its restart, Reuters said, citing sources briefed on the matter. State oil firm Saudi Aramco was seeking to increase the pumping rate to 4 million barrels per day, one of them said, without saying ⁠when this could be achieved.

The pipeline will resume crude supply ​to Aramco refineries located on the Red Sea coast, one ​of the sources said, adding that one cargo was scheduled to load at Yanbu later ⁠Tuesday. The ‌person ‌said it would be bound for ⁠China.

Another two trading sources said ‌traders were getting ready for Saudi oil loadings by moving tankers ​to Egypt's Mediterranean Port Said ⁠for ship-to-ship transfers and also to Sidi ⁠Kerir.