{"id":659131,"date":"2026-03-09T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659131"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:33:14","slug":"oil-surges-past-100-as-west-asia-war-escalates-raising-supply-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-surges-past-100-as-west-asia-war-escalates-raising-supply-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil surges past $100 as West Asia war escalates, raising supply fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global crude oil prices surged about 20% on Monday, crossing the $100-per-barrel mark as the intensifying war in West Asia heightened fears of supply disruptions in global energy markets.<\/p>\n<p>Benchmark Brent crude spiked as much as 20% to $111.04 a barrel earlier in the session\u2014 the highest level since July 2022\u2014 while West Texas Intermediate jumped about 22%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global crude oil prices surged about 20% on Monday, crossing the $100-per-barrel mark as the intensifying war in West Asia heightened fears of supply disruptions in global energy markets. Benchmark Brent crude spiked as much as 20% to $111.04 a barrel earlier in the session\u2014 the highest level since July 2022\u2014 while West Texas Intermediate jumped about 22%.<\/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-659131","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\/659131","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=659131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}