{"id":660595,"date":"2026-05-16T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660595"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:57:00","slug":"global-oil-prices-ease-after-iran-confirms-30-vessels-crossed-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-oil-prices-ease-after-iran-confirms-30-vessels-crossed-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Global oil prices ease after Iran confirms 30 vessels crossed Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil futures dipped slightly on Thursday after Iran\u2019s state media said about 30 vessels had crossed the Strait of Hormuz in recent hours, while the semi-official Fars news agency cited a source saying Iran had begun allowing transit for some Chinese vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude oil futures were down 73 cents, or 0.7%, at $104.90 a barrel at 11:21 a.m. ET (1521 GMT), easing from an earlier high of $107.13. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures were down 20 cents, or 0.2%, at $100.82. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil futures dipped slightly on Thursday after Iran\u2019s state media said about 30 vessels had crossed the Strait of Hormuz in recent hours, while the semi-official Fars news agency cited a source saying Iran had begun allowing transit for some Chinese vessels. Brent crude oil futures were down 73 cents, or 0.7%, at $104.90 a barrel at 11:21 a.m. ET (1521 GMT), easing from an earlier high of $107.13. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures were down 20 cents, or 0.2%, at $100.82.<\/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":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660595","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=660595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660597,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660595\/revisions\/660597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}