{"id":291631,"date":"2019-09-16T05:36:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291631"},"modified":"2019-09-16T05:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:36:33","slug":"saudi-cuts-oil-output-to-half-after-drones-strike-heart-of-energy-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-cuts-oil-output-to-half-after-drones-strike-heart-of-energy-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi cuts oil output to half after drones strike heart of energy system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s oil production was cut by half after a swarm of explosive drones struck at the heart of the kingdom\u2019s energy industry and set the world\u2019s biggest crude-processing plant ablaze &#8212; an attack blamed on Iran by the top US diplomat. <\/p>\n<p>Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who\u2019ve launched several drone attacks on Saudi targets in the past, claimed responsibility for the assault on the kingdom\u2019s Abqaiq plant. <\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said in a tweet there\u2019s no evidence the attacks came from Yemen and blamed Iran directly, but didn\u2019t offer evidence for that conclusion either. President Donald Trump spoke with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman by telephone but hasn\u2019t commented directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s oil production was cut by half after a swarm of explosive drones struck at the heart of the kingdom\u2019s energy industry and set the world\u2019s biggest crude-processing plant ablaze &#8212; an attack blamed on Iran by the top US diplomat. Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who\u2019ve launched several drone attacks on Saudi targets in the past, claimed responsibility for the assault on the kingdom\u2019s Abqaiq plant. US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said in a tweet there\u2019s no evidence the attacks came from Yemen and blamed Iran directly, but didn\u2019t offer evidence for that conclusion either. President Donald [&hellip;]<\/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-291631","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\/291631","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=291631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}