The price slump in crude oil that began last week has extended into this one as market players’ fears about a global recession deepen.
At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at just below $64 per barrel, while West Texas Intermediate was changing hands for $60.54 per barrel, both down by over 2% from Friday’s close.
Australia’s Woodside Energy has reached a deal to sell 40% in its Louisiana LNG project with Stonepeak, under which the infrastructure investment firm will provide $5.7 billion towards the expected capital expenditure for the foundation development of the LNG export facility.
Curious Minds Corner
Is Earth the only place in our solar system with liquid hydrocarbons?
No, Saturn’s moon Titan has vast lakes and rivers of liquid methane and ethane (components of natural gas).