{"id":281780,"date":"2019-07-12T05:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T05:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281780"},"modified":"2019-07-12T05:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T05:14:21","slug":"oil-near-6-week-highs-amid-gulf-of-mexico-storm-middle-east-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-near-6-week-highs-amid-gulf-of-mexico-storm-middle-east-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil near 6-week highs amid Gulf of Mexico storm, Middle East tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Oil prices rose on Friday, hovering near six-week highs, as US oil producers in the Gulf of Mexico cut more than half their output in the face of a tropical storm and as tensions continued to simmer in the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were up 29 cents, or 0.4 per cent, at $66.81 per barrel by 0300 GMT. The international benchmark settled down 0.7 per cent on Thursday after hitting its highest since May 30 at $67.52 a barrel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Oil prices rose on Friday, hovering near six-week highs, as US oil producers in the Gulf of Mexico cut more than half their output in the face of a tropical storm and as tensions continued to simmer in the Middle East. Brent crude futures were up 29 cents, or 0.4 per cent, at $66.81 per barrel by 0300 GMT. The international benchmark settled down 0.7 per cent on Thursday after hitting its highest since May 30 at $67.52 a barrel.<\/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-281780","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\/281780","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=281780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}