{"id":81495,"date":"2026-03-19T08:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81495"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:25:58","slug":"refineries-in-mideast-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/refineries-in-mideast-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Refineries In Mideast Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul id=\"rte-c1d95082-234b-11f1-99e2-a10b5bcea610\" class=\"rte2-style-ul\">\n<li>Iran\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-gas-field-south-pars-attack-5ad45090d3b66444467cc255ee966a37\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">hit\u00a0<b>a Saudi refinery on the Red Sea<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>set Qatari liquefied natural gas facilities and two Kuwaiti oil refineries ablaze<\/b>,\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-iraq-us-israel-trump-march-19-2026-52e94398f2432b3aba9b02b51fbe5000\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">sending international oil and gas prices soaring<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/stocks-markets-oil-iran-trump-1abeddf7c4bf19d1dc96b3f23c1de402\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Brent crude oil<\/a><\/span>, the international standard,\u00a0<b>spiked to as high as $118 a barrel, up more than 60%<\/b>\u00a0since Israel and the United States started the war with strikes on Iran.<\/li>\n<li>U.S. President Donald Trump pledged the U.S. would \u201c<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-iraq-us-israel-trump-march-19-2026-52e94398f2432b3aba9b02b51fbe5000\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">massively blow up the entirety\u201d of the world\u2019s largest gas field<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<b>if Iran attacks Qatar again<\/b>. Trump made his threat on social media against Iran\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/iran-war-israel-trump-03-18-2026#0000019d-00b0-de2d-addd-f3b2fc300000\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">South Pars natural gas field<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<b>after Iranian missiles hit Qatar<\/b>. The Iranian attack\u00a0<b>was in retaliation for an Israeli attack<\/b>\u00a0on the South Pars field earlier Wednesday.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>Palestinian Red Crescent said at least four people were killed in the occupied West Bank<\/b>\u00a0town of Beit Awa as Iran fired missiles toward Israel.\u00a0<b>At least 13 others were injured<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773908758\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Refineries In Mideast Hit\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Iran\u00a0hit\u00a0a Saudi refinery on the Red Sea\u00a0and\u00a0set Qatari liquefied natural gas facilities and two Kuwaiti oil refineries ablaze,\u00a0sending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}