{"id":8967,"date":"2021-03-12T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8967"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:13:23","slug":"low-oil-prices-amid-fears-of-continuing-are-the-houthi-attacks-the-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8967","title":{"rendered":"Low Oil Prices Amid Fears of Continuing&#8230; Are the Houthi Attacks the Reason?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oil prices plummeted on Friday, March 12, 2021, and stood at $ 70 per barrel, as major oil producers imposed export limits, reducing supply.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; March 12, 2021 \u2013 Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The price of May Brent crude oil on the London Stock Exchange ICE is $ 69.49 a barrel, which is $ 0.14 (0.2%) lower than the closing price of the previous session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The price for Brent May oil on the ICE Futures Exchange was $ 69.49 a barrel, which is $ 0.14 (0.2%) below the closing price of the previous session. Experts believe that the reason for this is the restrictions imposed by Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brent crude futures may show the strongest weekly increase in eight weeks after hitting a maximum of 13 months on Monday due to attacks on oil platforms in Saudi Arabia. Being attacked by hussies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sentiment was also supported by OPEC +\u2019s decision earlier this month not to change the parameters of the production restriction agreement in April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Assuming the vaccination programs are successful, we expect to release the delayed order this summer during the US and European road trip season,&#8221; said a note from FGE analysts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States, the world&#8217;s largest consumer of oil, saw a sharp drop in gasoline inventories last week due to disruptions at Texas refineries due to abnormal frosts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opec.org\/opec_web\/en\/\">OPEC<\/a> said on Thursday that a recovery in oil demand would occur mainly in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brent oil is priced at $ 69.07 per barrel. As of 09:15 Kiev time; At the open, Brent crude was trading at $ 69.50 a barrel, which is 13 cents less than the closing level ($ 69.63).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=8787\">Hussites Attacked Oil Facilities in Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices plummeted on Friday, March 12, 2021, and stood at $ 70 per barrel, as major oil producers imposed export limits, reducing supply. Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; March 12, 2021 \u2013 Economy \u00a0 The price of May Brent crude oil on the London Stock Exchange ICE is $ 69.49 a barrel, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[128,1538,684,747,1024,4719],"class_list":["post-8967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","tag-barrel","tag-decrease","tag-oil","tag-prices","tag-ukrgate","tag-world-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}