{"id":659877,"date":"2026-04-07T11:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659877"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:41:33","slug":"saudi-arabia-hikes-arab-light-crude-to-record-premium-for-asian-refiners-as-us-iran-war-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-arabia-hikes-arab-light-crude-to-record-premium-for-asian-refiners-as-us-iran-war-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia hikes Arab Light crude to record premium for Asian refiners as US-Iran war continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has sharply increased the price of its key oil grade sold to Asian buyers, reaching a record premium, as escalating tensions in the Middle East and concerns over Iran potentially restricting the Strait of Hormuz disrupt global energy markets.<\/p>\n<p>The state-owned company Saudi Aramco raised the price of its flagship Arab Light crude for next month to a premium of $19.50 above regional benchmarks for Asian refiners, according to a Bloomberg-reported price list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has sharply increased the price of its key oil grade sold to Asian buyers, reaching a record premium, as escalating tensions in the Middle East and concerns over Iran potentially restricting the Strait of Hormuz disrupt global energy markets. The state-owned company Saudi Aramco raised the price of its flagship Arab Light crude for next month to a premium of $19.50 above regional benchmarks for Asian refiners, according to a Bloomberg-reported price list.<\/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-659877","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\/659877","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=659877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}