{"id":311501,"date":"2020-01-21T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=311501"},"modified":"2020-01-21T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T07:58:06","slug":"oil-advances-to-1-week-high-as-unrest-hits-iraq-and-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-advances-to-1-week-high-as-unrest-hits-iraq-and-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil advances to 1-week high as unrest hits Iraq and Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil rose to the highest in more than a week in London as supply disruptions in Iraq and Libya reignited concerns over the market\u2019s vulnerability to geopolitical risk in key production regions.<\/p>\n<p>Brent futures increased to more than $65 a barrel after Libya\u2019s oil production almost ground to a halt as armed forces closed a critical pipeline, shuttering output from the nation\u2019s biggest oil project. In fellow OPEC nation Iraq, escalating protests stopped work at a minor field on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The latest incidents mark the second time this month that the market has been jolted by supply fears in OPEC nations, coming within weeks of a tense exchange between the U.S. and Iran that imperiled the region\u2019s energy exports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil rose to the highest in more than a week in London as supply disruptions in Iraq and Libya reignited concerns over the market\u2019s vulnerability to geopolitical risk in key production regions. Brent futures increased to more than $65 a barrel after Libya\u2019s oil production almost ground to a halt as armed forces closed a critical pipeline, shuttering output from the nation\u2019s biggest oil project. In fellow OPEC nation Iraq, escalating protests stopped work at a minor field on Sunday. The latest incidents mark the second time this month that the market has been jolted by supply fears in OPEC [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311501","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=311501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}