{"id":648996,"date":"2025-10-07T10:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648996"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:56:57","slug":"geopolitical-fragmentation-to-slow-energy-demand-bp-chief-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/geopolitical-fragmentation-to-slow-energy-demand-bp-chief-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"Geopolitical fragmentation to slow energy demand: BP chief economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising geopolitical tensions will slow global trade and GDP growth, dampening energy demand worldwide and in India, as nations prioritise self-reliance over imports, said BP\u2019s chief economist Spencer Dale. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the world becomes more self-reliant, they will tend to have less international trade,\u201d said Dale. \u201cIf there&#8217;s less international trade, that would tend to slow global economic growth because there&#8217;s less chance for people to do trade specialization and there&#8217;s less scope for new technologies to be quickly transferred around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising geopolitical tensions will slow global trade and GDP growth, dampening energy demand worldwide and in India, as nations prioritise self-reliance over imports, said BP\u2019s chief economist Spencer Dale. \u201cIf the world becomes more self-reliant, they will tend to have less international trade,\u201d said Dale. \u201cIf there&#8217;s less international trade, that would tend to slow global economic growth because there&#8217;s less chance for people to do trade specialization and there&#8217;s less scope for new technologies to be quickly transferred around the world.\u201d<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648996","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=648996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}