{"id":291675,"date":"2019-09-16T05:50:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291675"},"modified":"2019-09-16T05:50:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:50:49","slug":"production-at-aramco-cut-by-half-after-drone-attack-oil-prices-up-by-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/production-at-aramco-cut-by-half-after-drone-attack-oil-prices-up-by-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Production at Aramco cut by half after drone attack; oil prices up by 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices surged more than 10 per cent Monday after attacks on two Saudi Arabian plants that slashed output in the world&#8217;s top producer by half, with Donald Trump blaming Iran and raising the possibility of a military strike on the country. <\/p>\n<p>West Texas Intermediate jumped 10.68 per cent to $60.71 and Brent climbed 11.77 per cent to $67.31 in early Asia trading following the blasts at facilities run by state-owned giant Aramco. <\/p>\n<p>The attack by Tehran-backed Huthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is bogged down in a five-year war, effectively shut down six percent of the global oil supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices surged more than 10 per cent Monday after attacks on two Saudi Arabian plants that slashed output in the world&#8217;s top producer by half, with Donald Trump blaming Iran and raising the possibility of a military strike on the country. West Texas Intermediate jumped 10.68 per cent to $60.71 and Brent climbed 11.77 per cent to $67.31 in early Asia trading following the blasts at facilities run by state-owned giant Aramco. The attack by Tehran-backed Huthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is bogged down in a five-year war, effectively shut down six percent of the [&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-291675","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\/291675","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=291675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}