{"id":3054,"date":"2025-12-25T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/unlikely-bedfellows-castrol-deal-draws-private-capital-into-industry\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:10:10","slug":"unlikely-bedfellows-castrol-deal-draws-private-capital-into-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francechrono.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 deal valuing the business at about $10.1 billion (\u20ac8.49bn). The pairing is a novel one. Castrol is a century-old industrial brand long associated with oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business","7":"category-entreprise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}