{"id":221254,"date":"2026-04-21T05:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221254"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:49:35","slug":"middle-east-oil-pricing-is-cracking-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221254","title":{"rendered":"Middle East Oil Pricing Is Cracking Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a \u201cperilous position,\u201d the Platts Dubai benchmark used to price around 18 million barrels per day, nearly a fifth of global supply, is now severely strained by the halt in exports through the Strait of Hormuz. According to Reuters, with most cargoes having been unable to move safely through the chokepoint&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Oil-Prices\/Middle-East-Oil-Pricing-Is-Cracking-Under-Pressure.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a \u201cperilous position,\u201d the Platts Dubai benchmark used to price around 18 million barrels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uae"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221254-middle-east-oil-pricing-is-cracking-under-pressure.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221254-middle-east-oil-pricing-is-cracking-under-pressure-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221254-middle-east-oil-pricing-is-cracking-under-pressure-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221254-middle-east-oil-pricing-is-cracking-under-pressure-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221254-middle-east-oil-pricing-is-cracking-under-pressure-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221254-middle-east-oil-pricing-is-cracking-under-pressure.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221254-middle-east-oil-pricing-is-cracking-under-pressure.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221254-middle-east-oil-pricing-is-cracking-under-pressure-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221254-middle-east-oil-pricing-is-cracking-under-pressure-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221254-middle-east-oil-pricing-is-cracking-under-pressure-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=32\" rel=\"category\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>","tag_info":"United Arab Emirates","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}