{"id":402199,"date":"2021-02-26T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402199"},"modified":"2021-02-26T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:57:14","slug":"oil-mixed-us-crude-hits-highest-since-2019-as-refineries-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-mixed-us-crude-hits-highest-since-2019-as-refineries-restart\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil mixed, US crude hits highest since 2019 as refineries restart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were mixed on Thursday with US crude edging up to its highest close since 2019 as Texas refineries restarted production after last week&#8217;s freeze, while Brent eased on worries that four months of gains will prompt producers to boost output.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, an assurance that US interest rates will stay low and a sharp drop in US crude output last week due to the winter storm in Texas, helped boost both US crude and Brent to their highest intraday prices since January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Brent futures for April delivery fell 16 cents, or 0.2%, to settle at $66.88 a barrel. The April Brent contract expires on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were mixed on Thursday with US crude edging up to its highest close since 2019 as Texas refineries restarted production after last week&#8217;s freeze, while Brent eased on worries that four months of gains will prompt producers to boost output. Earlier in the day, an assurance that US interest rates will stay low and a sharp drop in US crude output last week due to the winter storm in Texas, helped boost both US crude and Brent to their highest intraday prices since January 2020. Brent futures for April delivery fell 16 cents, or 0.2%, to settle at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402199","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}