埃克森美孚公布2022年全年利润为560亿美元

据管道&天然气杂志网1月31日报道，埃克森美孚公司周二表示，该公司2022年盈利560亿美元，即去年每小时盈利约630万美元，不仅创下了公司纪录，也创下了西方石油行业的历史新高。

由于石油价格高企和需求飙升，各大石油巨头预计将打破各自的年度纪录，预计总收入将达到近2000亿美元。这一规模再次引发了对石油行业的批评，并引发了要求更多国家对石油公司征收暴利税的呼声。

埃克森美孚的业绩远远超过了2008年公布的452亿美元的净利润，当时油价达到每桶142美元，比去年的均价高出30%。疫情期间的大幅成本削减帮助推高了去年的收益。

埃克森首席财务官Kathryn Mikells对路透表示，总的收益和现金流同比大幅增长，而一切的确来自于强大的市场、强大的产量、强大的生产能力和良好的成本控制。

埃克森美孚表示，由于去年第四季度开始征收的欧盟暴利税和资产减值，其第四季度收益遭受了13亿美元的损失。该公司正在起诉欧盟，称其征税超出了其法律权限。

扣除费用，全年利润为591亿美元。与一年前相比，油气日产量增加了约10万桶，达到380万桶/日。根据Refinitiv的数据显示，调整后的每股利润为3.40美元，超过了普遍认为的每股3.29美元。

股价在上市前交易中下跌1.5%，至111.88美元。

暴利税

这一结果可能会引发与白宫的另一场对抗。政府周五抨击石油公司将大量现金用于股东分红，而不是用于生产。

埃克森美孚宣称，其运营现金流从2021年的481亿美元飙升至去年的768亿美元。

埃克森美孚首席财务官反驳道，暴利税是“非法和糟糕的政策”。她称，对石油收入征收新税“与试图实现的目标背道而驰”，并补充道，这将阻碍新的石油和天然气生产。

埃克森美孚第四季度公布了140亿美元的利润（不含费用），比去年同期增加了60%，但由于油价下跌，同时一些地区运营遭受了与寒冷天气相关的延误中断，因此盈利比上一季度（2022年第三季度）下降了近25%。

项目支出

埃克森美孚去年在新油气项目上的支出反弹至227亿美元，较上年增长37%。该公司增加了在圭亚那的勘探支出，以及在燃料精炼和化学品方面的支出。

埃克森美孚首席执行官达伦·伍兹在一份声明中表示，“我们在疫情之前和期间进行的反周期投资为经济开始复苏提供了所需的能源和产品。”

郝芬 译自 管道&天然气杂志网

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Exxon Posts $56 Billion Profit for 2022, Setting Historic High for Western Oil Majors

Exxon Mobil Corp. posted a $56 billion profit for 2022, the company said on Tuesday, taking home about $6.3 million per hour last year, and setting not only a company record but a historic high for the Western oil industry.

Oil majors are expected to break their own annual records on high prices and soaring demand, pushing their combined take to near $200 billion. The scale has renewed criticism of the oil industry and sparked calls for more countries to levy windfall profit taxes on the companies.

Exxon's results far exceeded the then-record $45.2 billion net profit it reported in 2008, when oil hit $142 per barrel, 30% above last year's average price. Deep cost cuts during the pandemic helped supercharge last year's earnings.

"Overall earnings and cashflow were up pretty significantly year on year," Exxon Chief Financial Officer Kathryn Mikells told Reuters. "So that came really from a combination of strong markets, strong throughput, strong production, and really good cost control."

Exxon said it incurred a $1.3 billion hit to its fourth-quarter earnings from a European Union windfall tax that began in the final quarter and from asset impairments. The company is suing the EU, arguing that the levy exceeds its legal authority.

Excluding charges, profit for the full year was $59.1 billion. Production was up by about 100,000 barrels of oil and gas per day over a year ago to 3.8 million bpd. Adjusted per share profit of $3.40 beat consensus of $3.29 per share, according to Refinitiv data.

Shares were down 1.5% in pre-market trading to $111.88.

Windfall Taxes

The results may set up another confrontation with the White House. President Joe Biden's administration on Friday blasted oil firms for pouring cash into shareholder payouts rather than production.

Exxon boasted that its cash flow from operations soared to $76.8 billion last year, up from $48.1 billion in 2021.

Windfall profit taxes are "unlawful and bad policy," countered Mikells. Slapping new taxes on oil earnings "has the opposite effect of what you are trying to achieve," she said, adding that it would discourage new oil and gas production.

Exxon posted $14 billion in fourth-quarter profit excluding charges, 60% more than the same period last year but down almost 25% from the previous quarter as oil prices eased and some operations suffered from cold-weather-related outages.

Project Spending

Exxon's spending on new oil and gas projects bounced back last year to $22.7 billion, up 37% from the prior year. The company increased outlays on discoveries in Guyana, in the top U.S. shale field, and on fuel refining and chemicals.

"The counter-cyclical investments we made before and during the pandemic provided the energy and products people needed as economies began recovering," Exxon CEO Darren Woods said in a statement.