{"id":490,"date":"2026-05-10T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:43:49","slug":"saudi-aramco-profits-jump-despite-conflict-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Aramco profits jump despite conflict in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s state oil company\u2019s profits up 26% to \u00a326.9bn in first three months of year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/may\/08\/oil-us-iran-ceasefire-uk-house-prices-food-prices-jobs-report-pound-bonds-elections-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s state oil company reported a 26% jump in profits in its first quarter as its east-west pipeline allowed it to ship millions of barrels of oil out of the Gulf despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/strait-of-hormuz\">conflict in the Middle East<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Profits at Saudi Aramco hit $33.6bn (\u00a326.9bn) in the first three months of the year, while revenue rose nearly 7% compared with a year earlier to $115.5bn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/10\/saudi-aramco-profits-jump-despite-conflict-middle-east\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s state oil company\u2019s profits up 26% to \u00a326.9bn in first three months of year Business live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}