據1月28日offshore energy消息：隨著油氣價格的上漲，美國油氣巨頭雪佛龍(Chevron)在2021年第四季度實現盈利，而去年疫情導致的油氣市場低迷影響了行業業績，導致該公司出現虧損。

雪佛龍周五公布，2021年第四季度盈利51億美元，而2020年第四季度虧損6.65億美元。這是雪佛龍連續第四個季度實現利潤。

本季度包括資產出售收益5.2億美元、提前償還債務損失2.6億美元和養老金結算費用8200萬美元。

這家石油巨頭在2021年第四季度的總收入為480億美元，而去年同期為250億美元。

雪佛龍2021年全年盈利156億美元，而2020年虧損55億美元。

雪佛龍董事長兼首席執行官Mike Wirth表示:“2021年，我們實現了創紀錄的自由現金流，并加速了我們朝著低碳未來的進展。與幾年前相比，我們現在是一家更好的公司。我們的資本和成本效率更高，能夠向股東返還更多現金。”

2021年，雪佛龍將季度每股股息提高了4%，至1.34美元，回購了14億美元的公司股票，同時將資本回報率提高至9.4%，并減少了129億美元的債務。本周早些時候，該公司將每股股息提高了6%，至1.42美元，并將2022年第一季度的股票回購額設定在30億至50億美元的年度指導區間的頂部。

雪佛龍的凈石油當量產量在2021年增長至創紀錄的310萬桶/天。該公司還在2021年增加了13億桶石油當量凈探明儲量。最大的凈增加來自二疊紀盆地、墨西哥灣和澳大利亞的資產，而凈減少最多的是哈薩克斯坦的資產。

2021年第四季度，全球凈石油當量產量為312萬桶/天，同比下降5%。

2021年，該公司在推進低碳未來方面取得了進展，制定了降低運營碳強度的目標，并采用了上游范圍1和2的2050年凈零排放目標。

雪佛龍還擴大了其可再生燃料業務，成立了雪佛龍新能源組織，旨在發展氫、碳捕獲和抵消業務，并將相關的計劃資本投資增加了兩倍，到2028年達到約100億美元。

馮娟 摘譯自 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.