{"id":32503,"date":"2019-02-19T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32503"},"modified":"2019-02-19T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:39:10","slug":"us-sanctions-on-venezuela-are-rippling-through-oil-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32503","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions on Venezuela are rippling through oil markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>US sanctions on Venezuela&#8217;s national oil company have accelerated the unprecedented collapse of its oil output and set off a domino effect in the global energy market. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The sanctions, which were announced on January 28 in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/18\/politics\/donald-trump-venezuela-miami\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">bid to speed up Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s exit<\/a>, have sent US Gulf Coast refineries scrambling to find alternate sources for the heavy crude they once relied on from Venezuela. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">And Venezuela, which as of last fall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/24\/business\/venezuela-oil-prices-sanctions\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">was the No. 4 crude importer <\/a>to the United States behind only Canada, Saudi Arabia and Mexico, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/29\/investing\/oil-prices-venezuela-sanctions-pdvsa\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">forced to find new customers and new ways to dilute its very heavy crude<\/a> to ready it for export.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)US sanctions on Venezuela&#8217;s national oil company have accelerated the unprecedented collapse of its oil output and set off a domino effect in the global energy market. The sanctions, which were announced on January 28 in a bid to speed up Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s exit, have sent US Gulf Coast refineries scrambling to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}