{"id":458978,"date":"2021-12-29T09:24:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T03:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=458978"},"modified":"2021-12-29T09:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:29:18","slug":"brent-near-80-a-barrel-as-market-shrugs-off-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/brent-near-80-a-barrel-as-market-shrugs-off-omicron-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent near $80 a barrel as market shrugs off Omicron variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices extended gains on Tuesday, with Brent crude trading near $80 a barrel, despite the rapid spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, supported by supply outages and expectations that US inventories fell last week. Brent crude rose by $1.04, or 1.3 per cent, to $79.64 a barrel by 1119 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude rose $1.15, or 1.5 per cent, to $76.72.<\/p>\n<p>Both contracts traded at their highest in a month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Support comes as well from high aggregated production disruptions in Ecuador, Libya, and Nigeria and the expectation of another large drop in US crude inventories,&#8221; said UBS oil analyst Giovanni Staunovo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices extended gains on Tuesday, with Brent crude trading near $80 a barrel, despite the rapid spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, supported by supply outages and expectations that US inventories fell last week. Brent crude rose by $1.04, or 1.3 per cent, to $79.64 a barrel by 1119 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude rose $1.15, or 1.5 per cent, to $76.72. Both contracts traded at their highest in a month. &#8220;Support comes as well from high aggregated production disruptions in Ecuador, Libya, and Nigeria and the expectation of another large drop in US crude inventories,&#8221; said UBS [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458978","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=458978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}