Sydney, Jan 11, 2026, 16:55 AEDT — Market closed.
- Woodside shares last closed up 2.8% at A$23.59, ending Friday higher.
- Oil settled up on Friday as traders weighed supply risks tied to Iran, Russia-Ukraine and Venezuela.
- Next on the calendar: Woodside’s fourth-quarter report on Jan. 28 and annual report on Feb. 24.
Woodside Energy Group Ltd (WDS.AX) shares finished Friday up 2.8% at A$23.59, from a prior close of A$22.95. With the Australian market shut on Sunday, traders head into the new week watching crude first, company news second. 1
Why it matters now is simple: Woodside is priced like an oil-and-gas name, and crude has started moving again on politics. The next local session will have to digest that, plus position for Woodside’s late-January update.
Oil climbed on Friday as supply fears flared. Brent settled up $1.35 at $63.34 a barrel and U.S. WTI ended up $1.36 at $59.12; “The uprising in Iran is keeping the market on edge,” said Phil Flynn, senior analyst at Price Futures Group. Ole Hansen, Saxo Bank’s head of commodity analysis, said protests “seem to be gathering momentum” and raised worries over disruptions. 2
The bid for energy stocks showed up across the sector. Santos ended Friday up 3.54%, while Beach Energy rose 2.80% and Ampol gained 1.03%, according to Investing.com data for the S&P/ASX 200 Energy index constituents. 3
In the U.S., Woodside’s NYSE-listed line (WDS) last traded at $15.86, up about 1.1% from the prior close. That’s the price global investors will carry into Monday’s Asia open.
Woodside is listed on the ASX with a secondary NYSE listing through American Depositary Shares — a U.S. wrapper that lets investors trade a foreign stock in dollars. 4
The company has been pushing long-dated LNG (liquefied natural gas, super-chilled gas shipped by tanker) sales tied to its growth plans. In late December, Woodside said it signed a supply agreement with Turkey’s BOTAS, and executive vice-president and chief commercial officer Mark Abbotsford called it a “strategic milestone” for Woodside’s LNG push. 5
Management is also in transition, which keeps a lid on conviction trades. In December, Reuters reported that Woodside’s new CEO will have to steer big LNG projects through a market “seeing the first signs of a supply glut,” with Joshua Runciman at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis pointing to construction risk at the Louisiana LNG project. 6
The next hard catalyst is close. Woodside lists its fourth-quarter 2025 report for Jan. 28 and its 2025 annual report for Feb. 24. 7
A risk for Woodside bulls is that crude’s bounce fades as quickly as it came. Reuters reported on Sunday that oil companies and trading houses are scrambling to assemble shipping and transfer operations for Venezuelan crude exports to the U.S., after President Donald Trump said Venezuela could turn over as much as 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil; the story flagged old vessels, maintenance problems and bottlenecks at export terminals. More supply — or even the prospect of it — can cap oil rallies. 8
For Monday, traders will watch how oil futures open in Asia and whether Venezuela and Iran headlines keep supply risk priced in. Then attention swings to Woodside’s Jan. 28 quarterly report for any reset to production, spending and project timing — the numbers that tend to move WDS more than speeches do.
