{"id":575796,"date":"2023-05-10T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T04:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=575796"},"modified":"2023-05-10T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T04:59:26","slug":"oil-giant-saudi-aramcos-1st-quarter-profit-down-20-to-31-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-giant-saudi-aramcos-1st-quarter-profit-down-20-to-31-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil giant Saudi Aramco&#8217;s 1st quarter profit down 20% to $31 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Oil giant Saudi Aramco reported a first-quarter profit on Tuesday of $31.88 billion, down nearly 20% from the same period last year as energy prices have sunk over global recession concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The firm known formally as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. blamed the drop \u2014 compared to $39.47 billion in the same quarter last year \u2014 on the lower crude oil prices. Aramco made a $30.73 billion profit in the fourth quarter of last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results reflect Aramco\u2019s continued high reliability, focus on cost and our ability to react to market conditions as we generate strong cash flows and further strengthen the balance sheet,\u201d Aramco President and CEO Amin H. Nasser said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Oil giant Saudi Aramco reported a first-quarter profit on Tuesday of $31.88 billion, down nearly 20% from the same period last year as energy prices have sunk over global recession concerns. The firm known formally as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. blamed the drop \u2014 compared to $39.47 billion in the same quarter last year \u2014 on the lower crude oil prices. Aramco made a $30.73 billion profit in the fourth quarter of last year. \u201cThe results reflect Aramco\u2019s continued high reliability, focus on cost and our ability to react to market conditions as we generate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575796","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}