{"id":403832,"date":"2021-03-09T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403832"},"modified":"2021-03-09T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T05:25:56","slug":"oil-prices-surge-after-strikes-on-storage-site-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-surge-after-strikes-on-storage-site-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices surge after strikes on storage site in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices pressed higher on Monday after strikes on major facilities in Saudi Arabia, the world\u2019s largest exporter, shook energy markets already rattled by a decision by 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 had surged $2.62 on Friday. At 11.55 pm on Monday, Brent was trading at $68.06 a barrel.<\/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 had jumped $2.26 to $66.09 per barrel on Friday. At 11.55 pm on Monday, WTI was trading at $64.87 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices pressed higher on Monday after strikes on major facilities in Saudi Arabia, the world\u2019s largest exporter, shook energy markets already rattled by a decision by 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 had surged $2.62 on Friday. At 11.55 pm on Monday, Brent was trading at $68.06 a barrel. 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 had [&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-403832","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\/403832","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=403832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}