{"id":151292,"date":"2026-03-16T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151292"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:34:07","slug":"saudivska-araviya-skorotyla-vydobutok-nafty-na-20","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/saudivska-araviya-skorotyla-vydobutok-nafty-na-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Cuts Oil Production by 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"340\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/span>, the world\u2019s largest oil exporter, has reduced its oil production by about 2 million barrels per day to roughly 8 million barrels per day due to the conflict in the Middle East, according to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Reuters<\/span><\/span>, citing two sources.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"342\" data-end=\"780\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Riyadh<\/span><\/span> is redirecting more oil to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Yanbu<\/span><\/span> on the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Red Sea<\/span><\/span> coast, bypassing the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Strait of Hormuz<\/span><\/span>. However, production has still fallen to around 8 million barrels per day after output was halted at two offshore oil fields \u2014 <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Safaniya oil field<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Zuluf oil field<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"782\" data-end=\"886\">According to another source, Saudi Arabia\u2019s production has even dropped below 8 million barrels per day.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"888\" data-end=\"1024\">The combined production capacity of these two fields exceeds 2 million barrels per day, mainly consisting of heavy and medium crude oil.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1026\" data-end=\"1198\">The pipeline leading to Yanbu is primarily designed to transport lighter grades of crude. The state oil giant <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Saudi Aramco<\/span><\/span> declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1367\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">This reduction is significant compared to February, when the country supplied 10.111 million barrels per day to the market and produced 10.882 million barrels per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151293,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151292","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151292"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151292"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}