{"id":658163,"date":"2026-02-02T11:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658163"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:34:59","slug":"opec-extends-crude-oil-production-pause-amid-geopolitical-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opec-extends-crude-oil-production-pause-amid-geopolitical-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEC extends crude oil production pause amid geopolitical tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) declared on Sunday its decision to maintain consistent crude oil output levels through March \u2014 the final phase of a three-month supply halt\u2014despite prices reaching a four-month peak due to potential US military action against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Eight major participants, spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and Russia, reconfirmed the suspension \u2014 initially established in November 2025 \u2014 via a Sunday video summit, according to an official group announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) declared on Sunday its decision to maintain consistent crude oil output levels through March \u2014 the final phase of a three-month supply halt\u2014despite prices reaching a four-month peak due to potential US military action against Iran. Eight major participants, spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and Russia, reconfirmed the suspension \u2014 initially established in November 2025 \u2014 via a Sunday video summit, according to an official group announcement.<\/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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658163","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=658163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}