{"id":300503,"date":"2019-11-11T12:31:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T07:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300503"},"modified":"2019-11-11T12:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T07:25:18","slug":"iran-announces-discovery-of-massive-oil-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-announces-discovery-of-massive-oil-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran announces discovery of massive oil field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has discovered a massive new oil field, President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday, a find that would boost its proven reserves by about a third in a rare piece of \u201cgood news\u201d for an economy battered by US sanctions. <\/p>\n<p>In a speech aired on state TV, Rouhani said the country\u2019s economy had stabilised despite punishing US measures against its senior leaders, banking and finance sectors. The vast field in the southwestern province of Khuzestan holds an estimated 53 billion barrels of crude, he said. The 80-metre deep reservoir stretches nearly 200 kilometres from Khuzestan\u2019s border with Iraq to the city of Omidiyeh. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a small gift by the government to the people of Iran,\u201d he said in a speech from the central city of Yazd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has discovered a massive new oil field, President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday, a find that would boost its proven reserves by about a third in a rare piece of \u201cgood news\u201d for an economy battered by US sanctions. In a speech aired on state TV, Rouhani said the country\u2019s economy had stabilised despite punishing US measures against its senior leaders, banking and finance sectors. The vast field in the southwestern province of Khuzestan holds an estimated 53 billion barrels of crude, he said. The 80-metre deep reservoir stretches nearly 200 kilometres from Khuzestan\u2019s border with Iraq to the city [&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":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300503","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=300503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}