{"id":23719,"date":"2026-09-11T12:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23719"},"modified":"2026-09-11T12:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:58:26","slug":"oil-prices-surge-to-122-a-barrel-as-middle-east-tensions-fuel-supply-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23719","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices surge to $122 a barrel as Middle East tensions fuel supply fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London: Global oil prices continued to rise amid escalating tensions in the Middle East and growing concerns over potential disruptions to energy supplies, with Murban crude reaching $122 per barrel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a British media report, Murban crude was trading at $122 per barrel in the international market.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude gained another 1% on Thursday to reach $108.68 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude also climbed to its highest level since mid-May.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, WTI settled 6.7% higher at $103 per barrel.<\/p>\n<p>The latest surge in oil prices comes amid growing concerns over global energy supplies following reports that Yemen&#8217;s Houthis had seized the port city of Mokha and that more vessels had been targeted in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: Global oil prices continued to rise amid escalating tensions in the Middle East and growing concerns over potential disruptions to energy supplies, with Murban crude reaching $122 per barrel. According to a British media report, Murban crude was trading at $122 per barrel in the international market. Brent crude gained another 1% on Thursday [&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":[41,47,46],"tags":[1596,7504,13123,2856,6467,11362],"class_list":["post-23719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news","category-latest","tag-crude-oil","tag-global-markets","tag-houthis","tag-middle-east","tag-oil-prices","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23719","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=23719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23720,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23719\/revisions\/23720"}],"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=23719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}