{"id":403777,"date":"2021-03-09T09:16:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T03:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403777"},"modified":"2021-03-09T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:20:59","slug":"oil-prices-surge-after-attack-on-saudi-arabia-oil-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-surge-after-attack-on-saudi-arabia-oil-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices surge after attack on Saudi Arabia oil site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices pressed higher Monday after strikes on major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, the world&#8217;s largest oil exporter, shook energy markets already rattled by a decision by oil producers last week to not lift output. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude, the international standard, surpassed $70 per barrel for the first time in over a year, gaining $1.14 to $70.47 a barrel. It surged $2.62 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Benchmark US crude oil added $1.10 to $67.19 per barrel, up 1.7 per cent, falling back from bigger gains earlier in the day. It jumped $2.26 to $66.09 per barrel on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Prices have been recovering in the past few months after plunging last year with the onset of the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices pressed higher Monday after strikes on major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, the world&#8217;s largest oil exporter, shook energy markets already rattled by a decision by oil producers last week to not lift output. Brent crude, the international standard, surpassed $70 per barrel for the first time in over a year, gaining $1.14 to $70.47 a barrel. It surged $2.62 on Friday. Benchmark US crude oil added $1.10 to $67.19 per barrel, up 1.7 per cent, falling back from bigger gains earlier in the day. It jumped $2.26 to $66.09 per barrel on Friday. Prices have been recovering [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403777","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=403777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}