State Dept official said Rubio spoke with Prime Minister NETANYAHU on Monday.

Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, said Saudi Arabia’s key east–west oil pipeline is operating normally. AFP had earlier quoted an unnamed Saudi energy industry source saying the pipeline shut after a pump station was attacked again over the weekend; that report briefly pushed oil prices higher before the market reversed on the normal-operation update. As of late last week, ARAMCO had raised flows on the 7 mln bpd pipeline to over 80% of capacity, restoring most volumes lost after last month’s attack.

Flightradar24 reported that in the early hours of Oct. 6 local time a U.S. Navy MH-60R Seahawk operating over the Red Sea near Yanbu on Saudi Arabia’s western coast declared an emergency and broadcast squawk 7700. The helicopter subsequently disappeared from public flight-tracking feeds. The cause of the emergency has not been confirmed.