Shares for Woodside Petroleum Ltd [ASX:WPL] are up 6% since last Friday after a sudden spike in oil prices. Woodside is the largest independent oil and gas company in Australia. Shares for Woodside are trading at $33.26 today, at time of writing.
It has been a solid 12-month period for the stock. The latest news out of the company is its full-year results, which reveal improved cash flow and growth in reserves.
Of the ASX oil stocks, Beach Energy was the worst hit, down 9.95%, trading at $1.63. These moves mirror the decline in oil price, with WTI Crude down 0.51% today — trading at $52.37.