{"id":8019,"date":"2025-12-26T08:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/unlikely-bedfellows-castrol-deal-draws-private-capital-into-industry\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:56:12","slug":"unlikely-bedfellows-castrol-deal-draws-private-capital-into-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/unlikely-bedfellows-castrol-deal-draws-private-capital-into-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlikely bedfellows: Castrol deal draws private capital into industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"--widget_related_list_trans: 'Related';\">\n<p>Stonepeak, a US investment firm that specialises in infrastructure and real-asset businesses, has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Castrol, one of the world\u2019s biggest lubricants companies, in a deal valuing the business at about $10.1 billion (\u20ac8.49bn).<\/p>\n<p>The pairing is a novel one. Castrol is a century-old industrial brand long associated with oil majors, mass-market motorists and the physical machinery of the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, firms like Stonepeak typically operate behind the scenes, buying stakes in toll roads, pipelines, ports and data centres rather than&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/12\/25\/unlikely-bedfellows-castrol-deal-draws-private-capital-into-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stonepeak, a US investment firm that specialises in infrastructure and real-asset businesses, has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Castrol, one of the world\u2019s biggest lubricants companies, in a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}