{"id":304642,"date":"2019-12-07T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T07:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=304642"},"modified":"2019-12-07T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T07:22:14","slug":"opec-has-another-go-at-oil-deal-after-night-of-brain-squeezing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opec-has-another-go-at-oil-deal-after-night-of-brain-squeezing\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEC has another go at oil deal after night of \u2018brain squeezing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers from the powerful OPEC group of oil producers got together again on Friday, a day after failing in a marathon meeting to agree on a fresh output reduction deal they hope would stem prices which have been under pressure from abundant reserves and weak global economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s so-called OPEC+ meeting included Russia, the world&#8217;s second-largest oil producer and not a member of the cartel. Saudi Oil Minister Prince Abdulaziz<\/p>\n<p>Ben Salman, who is attending his first meeting in the post, admitted that Thursday&#8217;s six-hour meeting had seen delegations &#8220;labouring&#8230; Until 11 o&#8217;clock in the evening, squashing their heads, squeezing their brains&#8221; in search of an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>However, ministers seemed hopeful about the prospects of an eventual deal on an overall output level and each member&#8217;s share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers from the powerful OPEC group of oil producers got together again on Friday, a day after failing in a marathon meeting to agree on a fresh output reduction deal they hope would stem prices which have been under pressure from abundant reserves and weak global economic growth. Friday&#8217;s so-called OPEC+ meeting included Russia, the world&#8217;s second-largest oil producer and not a member of the cartel. Saudi Oil Minister Prince Abdulaziz Ben Salman, who is attending his first meeting in the post, admitted that Thursday&#8217;s six-hour meeting had seen delegations &#8220;labouring&#8230; Until 11 o&#8217;clock in the evening, squashing their heads, [&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-304642","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\/304642","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=304642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}