{"id":15122,"date":"2011-10-11T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T07:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/15122\/brent-oil-trading-at-108-kuwait-strike-supports-crude-prices\/"},"modified":"2011-10-11T09:43:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T07:43:17","slug":"brent-oil-trading-at-108-kuwait-strike-supports-crude-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/15122\/brent-oil-trading-at-108-kuwait-strike-supports-crude-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent oil trading at $108, Kuwait strike supports crude prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Brent oil prices open today&#8217;s trading session at $108 a barrel as a strike in Kuwait that is affecting oil shipments will support the price of oil and Brent crude oil futures have now seen 4 straight days of gains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Latest Brent Oil Price<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In London, Brent crude oil futures for November 2011 delivery was trading at $108.52 a barrel, 08.20 GMT this morning on the ICE Futures Exchange.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kuwait Strike Supports Oil Prices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oil traders and investors were closely watching for any supply disruption from Kuwait after a strike by a customs union shut ports and halted vessel traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait is one of the top five OPEC producers and accounted for about 7.7 percent of the group&#8217;s overall crude output in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Customs employees in Kuwait went on strike for a second day and threatened to block oil exports in a protest over wages, a customs union official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Late yesterday, about six tankers needed permission to leave the ports but it wasn\u2019t given to them. We\u2019re not going to stop our strike until the Cabinet itself issues a statement supporting our demands.&#8221; Fahad al-Ajmi, a union board member, said in a telephone interview from Kuwait today.<\/p>\n<p>The strike, which involves at least 4,000 workers, has also disrupted operations at the country\u2019s main airport, sea ports and border crossings, according to al-Ajmi.<\/p>\n<div\nname=\"googleone_share_1\"><g:plusone size=\"tall\" count=\"1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liveoilprices.co.uk\/oil\/oil_prices\/10\/2011\/brent-oil-trading-at-108-kuwait-strike-supports-crude-prices.html\">{lang: 'en-GB'}<\/g:plusone><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=http2F2Foil2F102Fbrent-oil-trading-at-108-kuwait-strike-supports-crude-prices.html&title=Brent+oil+trading+at+2C+Kuwait+strike+supports+crude+prices\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveoilprices.co.uk\/oil\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg 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Kuwait Strike Supports Oil Prices Oil traders and investors were closely watching for any supply disruption from Kuwait after a strike by a customs union shut ports and halted vessel traffic. Kuwait is one of the top five OPEC producers and accounted for about 7.7 percent of the group&#8217;s overall crude output in 2010. Customs employees in Kuwait went on strike for a second day and threatened to block oil exports in a protest over wages, a customs union official said. &#8220;Late yesterday, about six tankers needed permission to leave the ports but it wasn\u2019t given to them. We\u2019re not going to stop our strike until the Cabinet itself issues a statement supporting our demands.&#8221; Fahad al-Ajmi, a union board member, said in a telephone interview from Kuwait today. The strike, which involves at least 4,000 workers, has also disrupted operations at the country\u2019s main airport, sea ports and border crossings, according to al-Ajmi. {lang: 'en-GB'} ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-start-here-tradecrudeoilchatroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}