{"id":274332,"date":"2019-05-15T05:02:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274332"},"modified":"2019-05-15T05:14:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T05:14:29","slug":"global-oil-prices-jump-over-1-on-drone-attack-on-saudi-aramco-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-oil-prices-jump-over-1-on-drone-attack-on-saudi-aramco-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Global oil prices jump over 1% on drone attack on Saudi Aramco facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Tuesday after the world&#8217;s top oil exporter Saudi Arabia said explosive-laden drones had attacked two pumping stations belonging to state oil company Aramco. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were at $70.79 a barrel at 1035 GMT, up 56 cents or 0.80%. <\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $61.35 per barrel, up 31 cents or 0.51%. <\/p>\n<p>The Saudi state news agency quoted Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih as saying that Aramco had halted pumping on the East-West pipeline until the damage was evaluated, but that production and exports were continuing without disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Tuesday after the world&#8217;s top oil exporter Saudi Arabia said explosive-laden drones had attacked two pumping stations belonging to state oil company Aramco. Brent crude futures were at $70.79 a barrel at 1035 GMT, up 56 cents or 0.80%. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $61.35 per barrel, up 31 cents or 0.51%. The Saudi state news agency quoted Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih as saying that Aramco had halted pumping on the East-West pipeline until the damage was evaluated, but that production and exports were continuing without disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-274332","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\/274332","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}