{"id":345188,"date":"2020-04-04T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T04:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345188"},"modified":"2020-04-04T09:56:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T04:26:20","slug":"volatility-in-oil-prices-uncertain-petroleum-demand-impacting-indian-omcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/volatility-in-oil-prices-uncertain-petroleum-demand-impacting-indian-omcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Volatility in oil prices, uncertain petroleum demand impacting Indian OMCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volatility in crude oil prices and an uncertain petroleum demand over the last fortnight have come as a cause for concern for oil marketing companies (OMCs). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrude prices had rallied 25 per cent on Thursday after Saudi Arabia called an &#8216;urgent meeting&#8217; of the OPEC+ alliance and other producers to negotiate an output cut deal. NYMEX front-month crude settled at $25.32 per barrel, up $5.01,\u201d S&amp;P Platts noted in a report on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump had on Thursday indicated a production cut agreement of 10 million barrel per day to 15 million barrel per day. \u201cDespite the sudden jump in crude price on Thursday, after Trump\u2019s tweets, oil prices are expected to remain depressed, which works fine for OMCs,\u201d said Debasish Mishra, partner at consultancy Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volatility in crude oil prices and an uncertain petroleum demand over the last fortnight have come as a cause for concern for oil marketing companies (OMCs). \u201cCrude prices had rallied 25 per cent on Thursday after Saudi Arabia called an &#8216;urgent meeting&#8217; of the OPEC+ alliance and other producers to negotiate an output cut deal. NYMEX front-month crude settled at $25.32 per barrel, up $5.01,\u201d S&amp;P Platts noted in a report on Friday. US President Donald Trump had on Thursday indicated a production cut agreement of 10 million barrel per day to 15 million barrel per day. \u201cDespite the sudden [&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-345188","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\/345188","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=345188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}