{"id":403518,"date":"2021-03-08T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403518"},"modified":"2021-03-08T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:43:36","slug":"oil-prices-rise-to-20-month-high-after-missile-attacks-aimed-at-saudi-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-to-20-month-high-after-missile-attacks-aimed-at-saudi-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise to 20-month high after missile attacks aimed at Saudi facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brent crude oil surged more than two percent Monday following a missile attack on facilities owned by energy giant Aramco in Saudi Arabia, and on optimism about the demand outlook as the global economy recovers. A barrel of the black gold jumped 2.11 percent to $70.82 a barrel, the highest since May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>A missile and drone attack targeted the heart of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s oil industry on Sunday in an assault claimed by Yemen&#8217;s Huthi rebels, a new escalation in the six-year conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on energy giant Aramco&#8217;s facilities came as the Saudi-led military coalition bombed Yemen&#8217;s Huthi-controlled capital Sanaa after intercepting a separate flurry of cross-border Huthi drones and missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent crude oil surged more than two percent Monday following a missile attack on facilities owned by energy giant Aramco in Saudi Arabia, and on optimism about the demand outlook as the global economy recovers. A barrel of the black gold jumped 2.11 percent to $70.82 a barrel, the highest since May 2019. A missile and drone attack targeted the heart of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s oil industry on Sunday in an assault claimed by Yemen&#8217;s Huthi rebels, a new escalation in the six-year conflict. The attack on energy giant Aramco&#8217;s facilities came as the Saudi-led military coalition bombed Yemen&#8217;s Huthi-controlled capital [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403518","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=403518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}