GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Exxon Mobil Corp and its partners on Thursday reported earnings of US $5.8 billion in 2022 from offshore oil production here.
This is according to audited results filed in an appeal of a court ruling that found them in breach of insurance obligations.
The filing is the first disclosure of 2022 profits Exxon, Hess Corp, and CNOOC Ltd earned from oil produced offshore Guyana.
The group began production in Guyana in 2019, accounting for the country’s oil output.
The financial results were submitted on May 17 in an appeal of a ruling that found the group had breached oil-spill insurance obligations for the Liza One offshore platform.
Exxon and its partners “have the technical and financial capabilities to respond positively to any adverse event,” Alistair Routledge, Exxon’s country manager, said in the appeal.
Routledge said that the group has spill-mitigation technology at its disposal to cap any significant oil spills, and an underwater blowout could be sealed within 5-1/2 days.
According to Exxon, the oil consortium has $600 million in liability insurance for the Liza 1 platform.
Last year, according to the financial statements, Exxon took in $2.74 billion from its share of the group’s offshore oil production, Hess earned $1.53 billion, and CNOOC pocketed $1.55 billion. The trio produced about 375,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) from two offshore vessels by the end of 2022 and planned to pump 1.2 million bpd in 2027.
Exxon incurred about $281 million in tax expenses in the country last year versus none in 2020, the financial statement by Guyanese auditing group TSD Lal & Co showed.
The group has about $19 billion in assets in Guyana. According to the filing, Exxon’s holdings in the country at year-end were valued at $10.76 billion, Hess’s at $4.28 billion, and CNOOC’s at $3.9 billion.
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