{"id":659274,"date":"2026-03-12T11:39:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659274"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:09:48","slug":"oil-prices-top-100-bbl-as-supply-concerns-worsen-amid-escalating-us-iran-war-can-they-cross-130-mark-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-top-100-bbl-as-supply-concerns-worsen-amid-escalating-us-iran-war-can-they-cross-130-mark-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices top $100\/bbl as supply concerns worsen amid escalating US-Iran war: Can they cross $130 mark soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-Iran war: Crude oil prices surged past the $100 a barrel mark on Thursday, March 12, as supply concerns worsened with Iranian attacks on commercial shipping around the Strait of Hormuz, overshadowing the International Energy Agency&#8217;s (IEA) decision to release 400 million barrels of crude stocks.<\/p>\n<p>The global benchmark Brent Crude climbed as much as 10.5% to $101.59 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate jumped to nearly $96 in a fresh jolt to the global markets and world economy. Brent crude prices had touched almost $120 earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-Iran war: Crude oil prices surged past the $100 a barrel mark on Thursday, March 12, as supply concerns worsened with Iranian attacks on commercial shipping around the Strait of Hormuz, overshadowing the International Energy Agency&#8217;s (IEA) decision to release 400 million barrels of crude stocks. The global benchmark Brent Crude climbed as much as 10.5% to $101.59 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate jumped to nearly $96 in a fresh jolt to the global markets and world economy. Brent crude prices had touched almost $120 earlier this week.<\/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-659274","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\/659274","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=659274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}