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| Our balance sheet remains strong, ending the quarter with a net debt ratio in the single digits |
| I think there's a strong track record there you can expect to continue |
| Another quarter of solid cash flow enabled us to deliver on all of our financial priorities |
| We're confident that there's upside |
| Synergy capture is good |
| But the underlying company is very strong and healthy |
| We delivered another quarter with strong earnings, cash flow and ROCE |
| So we feel good about the company's performance in the quarter in terms of how we operated safely and reliably, how we captured margin |
| At TCO, base business continues to deliver good results |
| And I think they see it as a combined company that is stronger and one that is set up to be stronger for longer with the ability to really sustain cash distributions to shareholders in a very consistent, predictable and durable fashion long into the future |
| So we are seeing improvements and expect there's some more that we can see through the balance of the year |
| So we're seeing some positive news in terms of the cash flow coming out |
| Number three is a strong balance sheet |
| With a strategy that remains clear and consistent, we are well positioned to deliver value to our shareholders in any environment |
| You continue to have great financials and the shareholder return, both on the dividend and the buyback side, continues to be quite high, paying out a bit over 100% of your free cash flow |
| In summary, our actions and performance show that Chevron keeps delivering strong results |
| POP performance has generally been strong |
| We continued to make progress on our objective to safely deliver higher returns and lower carbon by returning more than $5 billion to shareholders for the sixth consecutive quarter and delivering ROCE greater than 12% for the ninth consecutive quarter; and investing in traditional energy by closing the PDC Energy acquisition and in new energies by acquiring a majority stake in a green hydrogen production and storage hub in Utah |
| And John and I have been looking for a way to do a deal that is actually one that's good for both sets of shareholders and not easy because it's a great asset and the market recognizes that value |
| Gulf of Mexico is pretty well right on plan |
| For the Chevron shareholders, who were wondering what comes next after what they can currently see over the next several years in our portfolio, rather than us pointing to a range of potential answers to that and say, "We'll do the best of these," and we've got plenty of organic investment opportunities we're working on, I think it gives some confidence and certainty of what underpins that for the future |
| You can be confident that we will continue to be disciplined in that reinvestment to drive returns and value |
| And so the productivity of the primary development activity has continued to improve |
| We think there are real opportunities to capture economic value through integration to build the capabilities to run our entire business by bringing capabilities, technology, skills to bear across those different segments |
| Adjusted downstream earnings increased primarily due to higher refining margins, partially offset by unfavorable timing effects |
| So we'll see a pretty significant increase in the total year TCO dividend |
| Third quarter oil equivalent production was up 6% over last quarter primarily due to two months of legacy PDC production |
| And that reflects a fundamental view that we believe that over the cycle, returns in the upstream are likely to be structurally higher than in the downstream primarily because refineries are hard to close |
| The first of which is to sustain and grow the dividend, 36 consecutive years now of per share dividend payouts for the last five years has been a 6% CAGR |
| And our folks did a great job, but it clearly impacted cost and schedule |
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| Clearly disappointing news on the revised schedule, but we're going to work hard to deliver it in the front end of the range |
| Compared with last quarter, adjusted earnings were down just over $50 million |
| Adjusted upstream earnings were lower mainly due to realizations and negative timing effects |
| Adjusted downstream earnings decreased primarily due to a negative swing in timing effects and lower marketing margins |
| We walked away from the Kitimat LNG project because we – despite a lot of efforts to make that project better, we had concerns about execution in that kind of an environment and ultimately said we're not going to take on a project like that, particularly at this point in time |
| Adjusted third quarter earnings were down $5.1 billion versus the same quarter last year |
| TCO production on a 100% basis in 2024 is forecasted to be about 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day lower than 2023 due to a heavier turnaround schedule and planned downtime for WPMP conversions |
| Overall, production was down just a little bit, about 2% in the quarter |
| So we know production is going to be down next year |
| And primarily, a couple of the operators had delays in putting wells online due to frac hits and some other factors |
| And early on, we found challenges in the utility system |
| And we've had our challenges with it |
| We are deeply saddened by the loss of life, and our hearts go out to those affected by the war |
| I guess the question is that, I mean, what have we learned from this process and to ensure that your future project execution will become better and not facing the kind of problem that, I mean, it has been a challenging project that all along due to a number of different reasons |
| There was also some takeaway capacity on the Permian highway that – constraints that resulted in some unplanned downtime |
| Look, I'll let Pierre cover this in a little more detail, but there's – I recognize this quarter was a tough one to model |
| That's lower than we have guided to over time |
| So the effects that Mike was talking about in production are really from the delay in the start-up of FGP, which obviously adds incremental production |
| That shortfall is not from TCO, that's from CPChem, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, on lower petchem margins |
| Free cash flow from TCO in 2025 is expected to be more than $4 billion, Chevron's share at $60 Brent, down around $1 billion from our prior estimate |
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