{"id":529514,"date":"2022-10-14T09:45:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T04:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=529514"},"modified":"2022-10-14T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T04:52:10","slug":"saudi-arabia-says-us-sought-1-month-delay-of-opec-production-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-arabia-says-us-sought-1-month-delay-of-opec-production-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia says US sought 1 month delay of OPEC+ production cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia said Thursday that the U.S. had urged the kingdom to postpone a decision by OPEC and its allies including Russia to cut oil production by a month.<\/p>\n<p>Such a delay could have helped reduce the risk of a spike in gas prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections next month.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the Saudi Foreign Ministry didn&#8217;t specifically mention the Nov. 8 elections in which U.S. President Joe Biden is trying to maintain his narrow Democratic majority in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>However, it stated that the U.S. suggested the cuts be delayed by a month. In the end, OPEC announced the cuts at its Oct. 5 meeting in Vienna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia said Thursday that the U.S. had urged the kingdom to postpone a decision by OPEC and its allies including Russia to cut oil production by a month. Such a delay could have helped reduce the risk of a spike in gas prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections next month. A statement issued by the Saudi Foreign Ministry didn&#8217;t specifically mention the Nov. 8 elections in which U.S. President Joe Biden is trying to maintain his narrow Democratic majority in Congress. However, it stated that the U.S. suggested the cuts be delayed by a month. In the end, [&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-529514","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\/529514","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=529514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}