TotalEnergies posts 21% drop in full-year profit on lower crude prices

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TotalEnergies posts 21% drop in full-year profit on lower crude prices

Poster and logo on the Coupole Tower, compagny Total’s head office renamed TotalEnergies in 2021 in the La Defense business district west of Paris in Courbevoie, France on 7 June 2024.

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French oil major TotalEnergies on Wednesday reported a sharp drop in full-year earnings, against a backdrop of lower crude prices and weak fuel demand.

The oil and gas giant posted full-year 2024 adjusted net income of $18.3 billion, reflecting a 21% fall from

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a year earlier.

Analysts had expected TotalEnergies’ full-year 2024 adjusted net income to come in at $18.2 billion, according to an LSEG-compiled consensus.

The energy major reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter adjusted net income of $4.4 billion.

The results buck a trend of consecutive quarterly losses. TotalEnergies’ adjusted net income had dropped for five straight quarters to notch a

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in September last year.

In a

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published last month, TotalEnergies said its fourth-quarter results would likely benefit from a slight increase in hydrocarbon production, stronger gas trading and a modest increase in refining margins.

Paris-listed shares of TotalEnergies are up around 6.8% year-to-date.

The world’s top oil and gas companies have seen profits fall from record levels in 2022, when Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine prompted international benchmark Brent crude to jump to nearly $140 per barrel.

Oil prices have since cooled amid faltering global demand, with Brent crude futures averaging $80 per barrel in 2024 — about $2 per barrel less than during the previous year, according to the 

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Energy giants have reported mixed fourth-quarter and full-year results amid weaker refining margins and lower crude prices.

U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil beat Wall Street’s estimate for fourth-quarter profit last week, while U.S. oil producer Chevron and Britain’s Shell both missed analyst forecasts.

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