{"id":659536,"date":"2026-03-23T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659536"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:27:43","slug":"why-is-oil-and-gas-psu-stock-ongc-the-lone-star-amid-the-us-iran-war-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-is-oil-and-gas-psu-stock-ongc-the-lone-star-amid-the-us-iran-war-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is oil and gas PSU stock ONGC the lone star amid the US-Iran war? Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-Iran war: While most oil and energy stocks took a beating amid Middle East tensions, ONGC&#8217;s share price showed resilience amid the sell-off. In one month, ONGC shares have shed around 3.50%, whereas the oil PSU major, IOC, has crashed by over 17%. Shares of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) crashed over 22% in one month, whereas GAIL India shares corrected more than 14% in one month.<\/p>\n<p>According to Indian stock market experts, the US-Iran war and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz have driven Brent Crude oil prices above $100 per barrel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-Iran war: While most oil and energy stocks took a beating amid Middle East tensions, ONGC&#8217;s share price showed resilience amid the sell-off. In one month, ONGC shares have shed around 3.50%, whereas the oil PSU major, IOC, has crashed by over 17%. Shares of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) crashed over 22% in one month, whereas GAIL India shares corrected more than 14% in one month. According to Indian stock market experts, the US-Iran war and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz have driven Brent Crude oil prices above $100 per barrel.<\/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-659536","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\/659536","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=659536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}