ConocoPhillips Beats Estimates on Higher Prices, Output

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

ConocoPhillips on Tuesday posted a second-quarter profit that nearly doubled from the first and topped analysts estimates, helped by higher oil and gas prices and production.

A recovery in fuel demand from a pandemic-forced slump has boosted globally-traded crude prices to over $70, raising earnings of oil and gas producers.

In a departure from previous cycles, however, producers have chosen to boost shareholder payout and slash debt rather than spend on production at the higher prices.

ConocoPhillips raised its share buyback plans in June by $1 billion and increased the expected savings from its $10 billion acquisition of Permian basin producer Concho for a second time.

The company's production, excluding Libya, rose 4% to 1.55 million boe per day in the second quarter from the first.

ConocoPhillips said prices for its oil and gas rose 10.3% to average $50.03 per barrel of oil equivalent (boe) in the three months to June 30.

It expects current-quarter production to be between 1.48 million boe per day and 1.52 million boe per day, including seasonal maintenance plans in Alaska and the Asia Pacific region.

The company had cut its 2021 capital expenditures by $200 million from its prior forecast of $5.5 billion in June, and estimates adjusted operating costs to be $100 million lower at $6.1 billion

Adjusted earnings rose to $1.72 billion, or $1.27 per share, in the second quarter, from $902 million, or 69 cents per share, in the first.

Analysts had on average estimated a profit of $1.10 per share, according to Refinitiv IBES estimates.


(Reporting by Arathy S Nair; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)

Categories: Finance Energy Industry News Oil Production

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