{"id":659281,"date":"2026-03-12T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659281"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:44:45","slug":"oil-price-today-march-12-2026-crude-jumps-after-tanker-strikes-in-iraq-supply-fears-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-price-today-march-12-2026-crude-jumps-after-tanker-strikes-in-iraq-supply-fears-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil price today (March 12, 2026): Crude jumps after tanker strikes in Iraq; supply fears persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil price today: Oil prices surged more than 9% on Thursday, climbing back above the $100-a-barrel mark as fresh strikes on energy supplies and infrastructure in the Middle East heightened fears of major disruptions, overshadowing a record release of crude from strategic reserves aimed at calming markets.<\/p>\n<p>Brent Crude jumped 9.3% to $100.50 per barrel, while West Texas Intermediate rose 8.8% to $94.92 at around 0305 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil price today: Oil prices surged more than 9% on Thursday, climbing back above the $100-a-barrel mark as fresh strikes on energy supplies and infrastructure in the Middle East heightened fears of major disruptions, overshadowing a record release of crude from strategic reserves aimed at calming markets. Brent Crude jumped 9.3% to $100.50 per barrel, while West Texas Intermediate rose 8.8% to $94.92 at around 0305 GMT.<\/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-659281","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\/659281","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=659281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}