{"id":25597,"date":"2026-03-05T01:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/25597\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:05:59","slug":"ubs-lifts-oil-and-lng-pricing-for-2026-amid-escalating-middle-east-tension-capital-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/25597\/","title":{"rendered":"UBS lifts oil and LNG pricing for 2026 amid escalating Middle East tension \u2014 Capital Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news: Global wealth management firm UBS has lifted its 2026 pricing forecast for oil and spot Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) amid escalating conflict in the Middle East and constrained shipment through the Strait of Hormuz choke point.<\/p>\n<p>The context: UBS has raised its near-term Brent price forecast to USD71 a barrel, reflecting USD80 a barrel in March and the 2026 average of USD72. This is under the assumption that the Middle East conflict continues for the next couple of weeks and the Strait of Hormuz remains severely disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>However, further damage on Gulf energy infrastructures could push Brent up to more than USD90 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>The spot LNG pricing forecast was lifted to USD14 per Million British Thermal Units (mmbtu) for the first half of 2026 and USD13 mmbtu for the remainder of the year following a halt in Qatar Energy\u2019s LNG production.<\/p>\n<p>UBS also expects Woodside and Santos to leverage the new pricing, which allows both companies to accelerate debt deleveraging\/financial restructuring and boost free cashflow.<\/p>\n<p>The source: UBS Research analyst note<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The news: Global wealth management firm UBS has lifted its 2026 pricing forecast for oil and spot Liquefied&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[2927,1830,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-25597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ubs","8":"tag-commodities","9":"tag-geopolitics","10":"tag-ubs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116173890102053015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}