For the first time, the oil and gas production end of the Persian Gulf was attacked, and after a large natural gas field in the UAE was attacked by drones, operations were temporarily suspended.

On Monday local time, a fire broke out at the large natural gas field Shah in the United Arab Emirates after being attacked by drones. According to the media office of the UAE capital, there have been no reports of casualties so far, and rescue personnel in Abu Dhabi are dealing with the fire. For safety reasons, operations at the gas field have been temporarily suspended and officials are assessing the damage. It is reported that Shah is one of the country's largest natural gas fields, a high sulfur content field located in the Rub' al Khali desert west of Abu Dhabi, operated jointly by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and the American Occidental Petroleum Corporation. Also on Monday, the spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry, Javier Blas, confirmed that the core asset Majnoon oil field in southern Iraq had also been attacked, but did not disclose specific details of the losses. Javier Blas stated, "Further ominous incidents have occurred today. This is the first time that oil and gas production facilities have been successfully targeted." He also revealed, "Saudi Arabia has also been hit by large-scale drone swarms."