On July 29, 2026, a suspected drone strike hit the US-owned floating gas storage unit Energos Winter at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta, according to British maritime security firm Ambrey. Port services company Inchcape confirmed that the resulting fire spread to a second gas vessel, the Gaslog Salem.
Egyptian emergency services and firefighting teams responded swiftly, containing the blazes and evacuating crews without any reported casualties. While Egypt's Petroleum Ministry confirmed the fires at the facility, official state reports stopped short of naming a drone strike as the cause.
