{"id":370419,"date":"2020-08-28T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T05:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370419"},"modified":"2020-08-28T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T05:33:07","slug":"oil-dips-as-us-rigs-refiners-appear-to-have-avoided-worst-of-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-dips-as-us-rigs-refiners-appear-to-have-avoided-worst-of-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil dips as US rigs, refiners appear to have avoided worst of storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Oil prices fell in early trade on Friday as a massive hurricane raced inland past the heart of the US oil industry in Louisiana and Texas, with a storm surge weaker than predicted.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 16 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to $42.85 a barrel as of 0014 GMT, adding to overnight losses.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures for October, set to expire on Friday, fell 9 cents, or 0.2 per cent, to $45.00 a barrel, while the more active November contract slipped 7 cents to $45.53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Oil prices fell in early trade on Friday as a massive hurricane raced inland past the heart of the US oil industry in Louisiana and Texas, with a storm surge weaker than predicted. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 16 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to $42.85 a barrel as of 0014 GMT, adding to overnight losses. Brent crude futures for October, set to expire on Friday, fell 9 cents, or 0.2 per cent, to $45.00 a barrel, while the more active November contract slipped 7 cents to $45.53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370419","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}