Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras (NYSE:PBR)
reported on Tuesday a net income for Q3 surging more than 20 times
compared to the profit for the same quarter last year on the back of
higher oil prices.
Petrobras reported
a consolidated net income of US$1.77 billion (6.644 billion Brazilian
reais) for Q3 2018, up from just US$70 million (266 million reais) for
Q3 2017. Compared to the second quarter of 2018, Petrobras’s net income
dropped by 34 percent, due to higher net financial expenses and
increased income tax expenses, the company said in its earnings release.
In the second quarter of 2018, Petrobras had reported an even stronger
surge in earnings, as net income jumped thirty-fold on the year, benefiting from the rising oil prices.
The third quarter this year was the third consecutive quarter in which Petrobras has booked a profit, it said.
Petrobras’s
domestic crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) production, however,
dropped in the third quarter—at 1.937 million bpd, it was 6 percent
lower compared to Q2 2018 and lower than the 2.134 million bpd
production in Q3 2017.
The company attributed the lower production
of oil, NGLs, and natural gas mostly to maintenance and the sale of a
25 percent stake in the Roncador field, partially offset by the start of
production of the FPSO Cidade dos Campos dos Goytacazes in the
Tartaruga Verde Field.
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For
the nine months January to September, Petrobras’s crude oil and NGL
production in Brazil declined by 6 percent to 2.028 million bpd.
For the nine months to September, Petrobras reported a net income
of US$6.3 billion (23.677 billion reais), the best result since 2011
and a 371-percent surge compared to the same period of 2017, thanks to
higher oil prices, the depreciation of the Brazilian currency, higher
diesel sales, and lower general and administrative expenses.
Petrobras,
considered the most indebted oil company in the world, said that its
net debt was US$72.888 billion at end-September, down by 14 percent
compared to end-2017, and down from the US$73.662 billion net debt at
end-June 2018.
By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com
By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com
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