{"id":282031,"date":"2019-07-15T05:09:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282031"},"modified":"2019-07-15T05:09:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:09:49","slug":"oil-hovers-near-6-week-highs-amid-gulf-of-mexico-storm-west-asian-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-hovers-near-6-week-highs-amid-gulf-of-mexico-storm-west-asian-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil hovers near 6-week highs amid Gulf of Mexico storm, West Asian tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: Oil prices hovered near six-week highs on Friday 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 53 cents, or 0.8%, at $67.05 per barrel by 0606 GMT. The international benchmark settled down 0.7% on Thursday after hitting its highest since May 30 at $67.65 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 42 cents, or 0.7%, at $60.62 a barrel. The US benchmark marked its highest level since May 23 in the previous session at $60.94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: Oil prices hovered near six-week highs on Friday 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 53 cents, or 0.8%, at $67.05 per barrel by 0606 GMT. The international benchmark settled down 0.7% on Thursday after hitting its highest since May 30 at $67.65 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 42 cents, or 0.7%, at $60.62 a barrel. The US benchmark marked its highest level [&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-282031","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\/282031","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=282031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}