{"id":23553,"date":"2026-09-02T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23553"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:04:39","slug":"oil-prices-rise-as-us-iran-tensions-intensify-murban-crude-reaches-106-a-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23553","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise as US-Iran tensions intensify, Murban crude reaches $106 a barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Global oil prices continued to rise amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, with major crude benchmarks recording further gains.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brent crude climbed to $96.54 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate crude reached $91.71 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Murban crude recorded a sharper increase, rising by $7 per barrel to reach $106.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in international oil prices comes amid continued tensions between Washington and Tehran and concerns over potential disruptions to global energy supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pakistan has also revised domestic petrol and diesel prices.<\/p>\n<p>For September 2, the government increased the price of petrol by Rs1.08 per litre, taking the new rate to Rs343.87 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>The price of high-speed diesel was increased by Rs0.51 per litre, bringing the new rate to Rs370.92 per litre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global oil prices continued to rise amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, with major crude benchmarks recording further gains. Brent crude climbed to $96.54 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate crude reached $91.71 per barrel. Murban crude recorded a sharper increase, rising by $7 per barrel to reach $106. The increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,37],"tags":[11241,13537,6467,5501,10252,13536],"class_list":["post-23553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-world","tag-brent-crude","tag-murban-crude","tag-oil-prices","tag-pakistan-fuel-prices","tag-us-iran-tensions","tag-wti-crude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23554,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553\/revisions\/23554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}