{"id":9369,"date":"2019-09-16T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T04:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9369"},"modified":"2019-09-16T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T04:46:44","slug":"oil-prices-surge-on-record-after-attack-on-saudi-oil-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9369","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Surge on Record after Attack on Saudi Oil Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices hit their highest in four months after two attacks on Saudi Arabian facilities, ARAMCO, on Saturday knocked out more than 5% of global supply.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures jumped more than 19 percent to a session high of $71.95 a barrel at the market&#8217;s open.\u00a0The Bloomberg news agency said it was the biggest rise in prices on record.<\/p>\n<p>Prices eased back slightly after US President Donald Trump authorised the release of US reserves.<\/p>\n<p>State oil giant Saudi Aramco said the attack cut output by 5.7 million barrels per day, at a time when Aramco is trying to ready itself for what is expected to be the\u00a0 world&#8217;s largest share sale.<\/p>\n<p>Aramco gave no timeline for output resumption. A source close to the matter told the Reuters news agency the return to full oil capacity could take &#8220;weeks, not days.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices hit their highest in four months after two attacks on Saudi Arabian facilities, ARAMCO, on Saturday knocked out more than 5% of global supply. Brent crude futures jumped more than 19 percent to a session high of $71.95 a barrel at the market&#8217;s open.\u00a0The Bloomberg news agency said it was the biggest rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9372,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions\/9372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}