{"id":272650,"date":"2019-05-03T05:53:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T05:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=272650"},"modified":"2019-05-03T05:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T05:53:57","slug":"india-eyes-guyana-as-iran-oil-supplies-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-eyes-guyana-as-iran-oil-supplies-end\/","title":{"rendered":"India eyes Guyana as Iran oil supplies end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Faced with US sanctions on one of its top suppliers Iran, India is charting new geographies to meet its energy needs. The world\u2019s third-largest oil importer is looking to secure an interest in Guyana\u2019s oilfields that are being hailed as one of the world\u2019s largest oil finds in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>A six-month sanctions waiver for India and seven other countries to continue importing oil from Iran expired on Thursday, effectively shutting out Iranian crude beginning 3 May.<\/p>\n<p>There is a growing interest in Guyana after ExxonMobil, one of the world\u2019s largest publicly-traded energy firms, announced an estimated reserve of more than five billion oil-equivalent barrels in the offshore Stabroek block in the South American country. The expectations have also swelled because Guyana borders Venezuela, which has one of the world\u2019s biggest oil reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Faced with US sanctions on one of its top suppliers Iran, India is charting new geographies to meet its energy needs. The world\u2019s third-largest oil importer is looking to secure an interest in Guyana\u2019s oilfields that are being hailed as one of the world\u2019s largest oil finds in recent times. A six-month sanctions waiver for India and seven other countries to continue importing oil from Iran expired on Thursday, effectively shutting out Iranian crude beginning 3 May. There is a growing interest in Guyana after ExxonMobil, one of the world\u2019s largest publicly-traded energy firms, announced an estimated reserve [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272650","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=272650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}