雪佛龙连续第四个季度盈利

据1月28日offshore energy消息：随着油气价格的上涨，美国油气巨头雪佛龙(Chevron)在2021年第四季度实现盈利，而去年疫情导致的油气市场低迷影响了行业业绩，导致该公司出现亏损。

雪佛龙周五公布，2021年第四季度盈利51亿美元，而2020年第四季度亏损6.65亿美元。这是雪佛龙连续第四个季度实现利润。

本季度包括资产出售收益5.2亿美元、提前偿还债务损失2.6亿美元和养老金结算费用8200万美元。

这家石油巨头在2021年第四季度的总收入为480亿美元，而去年同期为250亿美元。

雪佛龙2021年全年盈利156亿美元，而2020年亏损55亿美元。

雪佛龙董事长兼首席执行官Mike Wirth表示:“2021年，我们实现了创纪录的自由现金流，并加速了我们朝着低碳未来的进展。与几年前相比，我们现在是一家更好的公司。我们的资本和成本效率更高，能够向股东返还更多现金。”

2021年，雪佛龙将季度每股股息提高了4%，至1.34美元，回购了14亿美元的公司股票，同时将资本回报率提高至9.4%，并减少了129亿美元的债务。本周早些时候，该公司将每股股息提高了6%，至1.42美元，并将2022年第一季度的股票回购额设定在30亿至50亿美元的年度指导区间的顶部。

雪佛龙的净石油当量产量在2021年增长至创纪录的310万桶/天。该公司还在2021年增加了13亿桶石油当量净探明储量。最大的净增加来自二叠纪盆地、墨西哥湾和澳大利亚的资产，而净减少最多的是哈萨克斯坦的资产。

2021年第四季度，全球净石油当量产量为312万桶/天，同比下降5%。

2021年，该公司在推进低碳未来方面取得了进展，制定了降低运营碳强度的目标，并采用了上游范围1和2的2050年净零排放目标。

雪佛龙还扩大了其可再生燃料业务，成立了雪佛龙新能源组织，旨在发展氢、碳捕获和抵消业务，并将相关的计划资本投资增加了两倍，到2028年达到约100亿美元。

冯娟 摘译自 offshore energy

原文如下：

Chevron books fourth-consecutive quarterly profit

As oil and gas prices increased, U.S. oil and gas major Chevron returned to profit in the fourth quarter of 2021 from a loss in the prior-year period when the pandemic-driven oil and gas market downturn impacted the industry’s performance.

Chevron on Friday reported earnings of $5.1 billion for the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with a loss of $665 million in the fourth quarter of 2020. This is Chevron’s fourth-consecutive quarterly profit.

Included in the current quarter were asset sale gains of $520 million, losses on the early retirement of debt of $260 million, and pension settlement costs of $82 million.

The oil major’s total revenues in the fourth quarter of 2021 were $48 billion, compared to $25 billion in the year-ago period.

When it comes to its full-year 2021 performance, Chevron recorded earnings of $15.6 billion, compared with a loss of $5.5 billion in 2020.

“In 2021, we delivered record free cash flow and accelerated our progress towards a lower carbon future,” said Mike Wirth, Chevron’s chairman and chief executive officer. “We’re an even better company than we were just a few years ago. We’re more capital and cost-efficient, enabling us to return more cash to shareholders.”

During 2021, Chevron increased its quarterly dividend per share by 4 per cent to $1.34 and repurchased $1.4 billion of company stock, all while increasing return on capital employed to 9.4 per cent and reducing debt by $12.9 billion. The company raised its dividend per share an additional 6 per cent to $1.42 earlier this week and guided first quarter 2022 buybacks to the top of its $3 to $5 billion annual guidance range.

Chevron’s net oil-equivalent production grew in 2021 to a record 3.10 million barrels per day. The company also added 1.3 billion barrels of net oil-equivalent proved reserves in 2021. The largest net additions were from assets in the Permian Basin, the Gulf of Mexico, and Australia while the largest net reductions were from assets in Kazakhstan.

Worldwide net oil-equivalent production was 3.12 million barrels per day in the fourth quarter of 2021, which is a decrease of 5 per cent from a year ago.

In 2021, the company made progress to advance its lower carbon future as it set targets to lower the carbon intensity of its operations and adopted a 2050 net-zero aspiration for upstream scope 1 and 2 emissions.

Chevron also expanded its renewable fuels business, formed the Chevron New Energies organisation that aims to grow hydrogen, carbon capture, and offsets businesses, and tripled its associated planned capital investment to approximately $10 billion through 2028.