{"id":274375,"date":"2019-05-15T05:52:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T05:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274375"},"modified":"2019-05-15T05:52:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T05:52:58","slug":"oil-prices-jump-on-drone-attack-on-saudi-aramco-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-jump-on-drone-attack-on-saudi-aramco-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices jump on drone attack on Saudi Aramco facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: OilNSE -0.14 % prices rose nearly 2% on Tuesday after top exporter Saudi Arabia said explosive-laden drones launched by a Yemeni-armed movement aligned to Iran had attacked facilities belonging to state oil company Aramco. <\/p>\n<p>Brent futures were up $1.13, or 1.6%, at $71.36 a barrel by 11:26 a.m. EDT (1526 GMT), while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up 85 cents, or 1.4%, at $61.89 per barrel. <\/p>\n<p>Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said Aramco had halted pumping on the East-West pipeline until the damage was evaluated, but that production and exports were continuing without disruption. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: OilNSE -0.14 % prices rose nearly 2% on Tuesday after top exporter Saudi Arabia said explosive-laden drones launched by a Yemeni-armed movement aligned to Iran had attacked facilities belonging to state oil company Aramco. Brent futures were up $1.13, or 1.6%, at $71.36 a barrel by 11:26 a.m. EDT (1526 GMT), while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up 85 cents, or 1.4%, at $61.89 per barrel. Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said Aramco had halted pumping on the East-West pipeline until the damage was evaluated, but that production and exports were continuing without disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274375","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}