Snapshot · observed September 12, 2026, 07:46 UTC

Burn scar at a facility beside the East–West pipeline, south-west of Medina — 12 September 2026

A small facility beside the East–West (Petroline) pipeline corridor, south-west of Medina, western Saudi Arabia

Snapshots are curated, event-dated observations from open satellite data. They document specific events; they are not the systematic instrument records above. Every image carries its provenance in-frame.

Burn scar at a facility beside the East–West pipeline, south-west of Medina — 12 September 2026 — Before / after diptych — 7 September (facility intact) vs 12 September (burn scar), same framing — Before / after diptych — 7 September (facility intact) vs 12 September (burn scar), same framing · true colour R:B04 G:B03 B:B02 · 10 m/px · open full resolution ↗

Burn scar at a facility beside the East–West pipeline, south-west of Medina — 12 September 2026 — Before — 7 September, the facility intact beside the pipeline corridor — Before — 7 September, the facility intact beside the pipeline corridor · true colour R:B04 G:B03 B:B02 · 10 m/px · open full resolution ↗

Burn scar at a facility beside the East–West pipeline, south-west of Medina — 12 September 2026 — 12 September, 07:46 UTC — a black burn scar where the facility stood — 12 September, 07:46 UTC — a black burn scar where the facility stood · true colour R:B04 G:B03 B:B02 · 10 m/px · open full resolution ↗

Burn scar at a facility beside the East–West pipeline, south-west of Medina — 12 September 2026 — 12 September, shortwave infrared — the scar reads dark (cold char): the fire was already out by this overpass. The red patches are pre-existing basalt lava field, present on both dates — 12 September, shortwave infrared — the scar reads dark (cold char): the fire was already out by this overpass. The red patches are pre-existing basalt lava field, present on both dates · SWIR false colour R:B12 G:B08 B:B04 · 10 m/px · open full resolution ↗

Burn scar at a facility beside the East–West pipeline, south-west of Medina — 12 September 2026 — Wide context — 12 September, the pipeline corridor and settlement across the basalt harrat terrain — Wide context — 12 September, the pipeline corridor and settlement across the basalt harrat terrain · true colour R:B04 G:B03 B:B02 · 20 m/px · open full resolution ↗

Caption

Sentinel-2 imagery of a small facility beside the East–West (Petroline) pipeline corridor south-west of Medina. On 10 September, news reports described strikes and fires along the East–West pipeline and at Saudi oil facilities; this imagery corroborates a fire at this facility and localises it — the 7 September overpass shows the facility intact, and the 12 September overpass shows a black burn scar where it stood, the scar already cold in shortwave infrared. The true-colour frames show the scar and the pipeline corridor across the dark basalt lava field; the shortwave-infrared frame's red patches are the pre-existing lava field, present on both dates, not the fire. Each frame is stretched independently. Imagery: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (open data) via Microsoft Planetary Computer, rendered by NewsplanetAI.

Claim boundary

The facility is intact on 7 September and a charred scar on 12 September, and the scar is cold in shortwave infrared — the imagery shows a fire occurred here between the two overpasses and was already out, not what caused it. Each frame is a single instant; detail below the 10-metre pixel is not resolved.