{"id":100437,"date":"2020-01-03T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T20:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/iran-discovers-new-oil-field-with-over-50-billion-barrels"},"modified":"2020-01-03T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T20:30:41","slug":"iran-discovers-new-oil-field-with-over-50-billion-barrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/iran-discovers-new-oil-field-with-over-50-billion-barrels","title":{"rendered":"Iran discovers new oil field with over 50 billion barrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iran-discovers-new-oil-field-with-over-50-billion-barrels.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TEHRAN, Iran (AP) \u2014 Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country\u2019s south with over 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country\u2019s proven reserves by a third as it struggles to sell energy abroad over U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement by Hassan Rouhani comes as Iran faces crushing American sanctions after the U.S. pulled out of its nuclear deal with world powers last year.<\/p>\n<p>Rouhani made the announcement in a speech in the desert city of Yazd. He said the field was located in Iran\u2019s southern Khuzestan province, home to its crucial oil industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Iran (AP) \u2014 Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country\u2019s south with over 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country\u2019s proven reserves by a third as it struggles to sell energy abroad over U.S. sanctions. The announcement by Hassan Rouhani comes as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}