{"id":262137,"date":"2019-03-02T05:39:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T05:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=262137"},"modified":"2019-03-02T05:39:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T05:39:52","slug":"in-rebuff-to-donald-trump-opec-oil-output-drops-further-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-rebuff-to-donald-trump-opec-oil-output-drops-further-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"In rebuff to Donald Trump, Opec oil output drops further in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opec oil supply fell to a four-year low in February, a Reuters survey found, as top exporter Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies over-delivered on the group&#8217;s supply pact while Venezuelan output registered a further involuntary decline.<\/p>\n<p>The drop of 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) comes despite criticism from US President Donald Trump, who on Monday tweeted a call for the group to ease its efforts to boost prices, saying they were &#8220;getting too high&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 1, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies began new production cuts to avert a glut that could soften prices. Opec sources say the deal will go ahead despite Trump&#8217;s pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opec oil supply fell to a four-year low in February, a Reuters survey found, as top exporter Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies over-delivered on the group&#8217;s supply pact while Venezuelan output registered a further involuntary decline. The drop of 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) comes despite criticism from US President Donald Trump, who on Monday tweeted a call for the group to ease its efforts to boost prices, saying they were &#8220;getting too high&#8221;. On Jan. 1, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies began new production cuts to avert a glut that could soften prices. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}