DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) 鈥� All 14 people on board were killed in Saudi Arabia when a helicopter belonging to the world’s largest oil company crashed on Sunday morning, according to the Saudi Ministry of Energy.
The accident occurred around 6 a.m. in Ras Tanura, and everyone killed was a Saudi national, the statement said. An investigation was opened into the cause of the crash.
The helicopter belonged to Aramco, which is majority-owned by Saudi Arabia.
recently has had to scramble as disrupted oil supplies and raised prices. The company has said it successfully shifted some oil exports to a pipeline to avoid the , which has been disrupted as Iran asserted control over the waterway.
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