{"id":73068,"date":"2025-12-20T06:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/opinion-surging-barrels-at-sea-spook-oil-markets-more-than-russia-or-venezuela\/73068\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T06:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:47:41","slug":"opinion-surging-barrels-at-sea-spook-oil-markets-more-than-russia-or-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/opinion-surging-barrels-at-sea-spook-oil-markets-more-than-russia-or-venezuela\/73068\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Surging Barrels at Sea Spook Oil Markets More Than Russia or Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"

By By Ron Bousso LONDON, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Oil prices slumped below $60 a barrel this week as investors try to make sense of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s push to end the war in Ukraine and force out Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Yet the…<\/p>\n

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By By Ron Bousso LONDON, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Oil prices slumped below $60 a barrel this week as investors try to make sense of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s push to end the war in Ukraine and force out Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Yet the… gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[4548,1499,166,195,177,15854,997,14286,3354,198,112,16161],"class_list":["post-73068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-barrels","tag-markets","tag-oil","tag-opinion","tag-russia","tag-russian-sanctions","tag-sea","tag-spook","tag-surging","tag-tankers","tag-venezuela","tag-venezuela-sanctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/73069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}