RiyadhFrance now holds diesel pledges of 295,000 tonnes a month.
Macron is the first Western leader in Saudi Arabia since the Houthis escalated attacks this month.
The total covers just over 10% of French consumption, and the Élysée gave no Saudi volume.
France has had troops at the Yanbu oil terminal for eight days, Macron said, in a defensive role.
Polymarket traders give a Saudi-Houthi ceasefire by 31 December a 31% chance, up 6 points in a week.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 200+ reports worldwide
- Al Jazeera Online
- reports Macron's 'I am at my post' remarks and frames the visit as a domestic cost-of-living move to ease fuel-price unrest
- Middle East Eye
- places the visit within a multi-stop Gulf tour (Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain) aimed at strategic partnerships, not only energy
- France 24
- calls the less-than-three-hour stop a 'strong signal' to Riyadh amid near-daily Houthi attacks, and ties it to a Paris trial over October 17 violence
Sources: France 24, Al Jazeera Online, Middle East Eye