{"id":469344,"date":"2022-02-19T09:15:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T03:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=469344"},"modified":"2022-02-19T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T03:57:07","slug":"brent-crude-drops-2-to-91-14-per-barrel-on-iranian-oil-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/brent-crude-drops-2-to-91-14-per-barrel-on-iranian-oil-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent crude drops 2% to $91.14 per barrel on Iranian oil hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices extended losses on Friday and were heading for a weekly fall as the prospect of increased Iranian oil exports eclipsed fears of potential supply disruption resulting from the Russia-Ukraine crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures fell $1.83, or 1.9%, to $91.14 a barrel by 1425 GMT, extending a 1.9% drop from the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures shed $2.24, or 2.4%, to $89.52 a barrel after sliding 2% on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Fears over possible supply disruptions resulting from the Russian military presence at Ukraine&#8217;s borders have limited losses this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices extended losses on Friday and were heading for a weekly fall as the prospect of increased Iranian oil exports eclipsed fears of potential supply disruption resulting from the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Brent crude futures fell $1.83, or 1.9%, to $91.14 a barrel by 1425 GMT, extending a 1.9% drop from the previous session. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures shed $2.24, or 2.4%, to $89.52 a barrel after sliding 2% on Thursday. Fears over possible supply disruptions resulting from the Russian military presence at Ukraine&#8217;s borders have limited losses this week.<\/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-469344","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\/469344","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=469344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}