{"id":621645,"date":"2023-12-08T09:47:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T04:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=621645"},"modified":"2023-12-08T10:17:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T04:47:39","slug":"woodside-in-talks-with-santos-to-form-52-billion-australian-gas-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/woodside-in-talks-with-santos-to-form-52-billion-australian-gas-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodside in talks with Santos to form $52 billion Australian gas giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woodside Energy Group Ltd. is in preliminary talks with Santos on a potential merger, opening the door for the creation of an Australian gas export powerhouse amid a global wave of multi-billion dollar energy deals. <\/p>\n<p>Discussions are at an early stage, according to Santos, which said it is also exploring a range of \u201calternative structural options.\u201d Talks \u201cremain confidential and incomplete, and there is no certainty that the discussions will lead to a transaction,\u201d Woodside said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woodside Energy Group Ltd. is in preliminary talks with Santos on a potential merger, opening the door for the creation of an Australian gas export powerhouse amid a global wave of multi-billion dollar energy deals. Discussions are at an early stage, according to Santos, which said it is also exploring a range of \u201calternative structural options.\u201d Talks \u201cremain confidential and incomplete, and there is no certainty that the discussions will lead to a transaction,\u201d Woodside said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}