{"id":393048,"date":"2021-01-02T11:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T05:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=393048"},"modified":"2021-01-02T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T06:19:36","slug":"bengal-oil-superior-to-brent-and-at-par-with-west-texas-intermediate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengal-oil-superior-to-brent-and-at-par-with-west-texas-intermediate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal oil superior to Brent and at par with West Texas Intermediate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quality of oil that ONGC has discovered in the Bengal basin is superior to Brent and on a par with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) \u2014 the world\u2019s best-known benchmark crude oils.<\/p>\n<p>The small quantity of oil, being lifted from Ashoknagar -1 block in South 24-Praganas, has an API gravity of 40-41, which is considered to be a light variety and sought after because of the lower load it exerts on refineries.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude, a benchmark for oil produced in the North Sea, has a density of around 835 kg\/m3, being equivalent to a specific gravity of 0.835 or an API gravity of 38.06. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quality of oil that ONGC has discovered in the Bengal basin is superior to Brent and on a par with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) \u2014 the world\u2019s best-known benchmark crude oils. The small quantity of oil, being lifted from Ashoknagar -1 block in South 24-Praganas, has an API gravity of 40-41, which is considered to be a light variety and sought after because of the lower load it exerts on refineries. Brent crude, a benchmark for oil produced in the North Sea, has a density of around 835 kg\/m3, being equivalent to a specific gravity of 0.835 or an [&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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393048","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=393048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}