Australian vitality firm Santos Ltd. has reported a $1.4 billion gross sales income for the fourth quarter of 2024, 10 % above the prior quarter. The corporate, nevertheless, stated in its quarterly report that its full-year gross sales income of $5.4 billion is 9 % beneath 2023.
Manufacturing within the fourth quarter totaled 21.5 million barrels of oil equal (mmboe), 1 % beneath Q3 2024 manufacturing, whereas full-year manufacturing of 87.1 mmboe was 5 % beneath 2023.
“The fourth quarter introduced free money circulate for the complete 12 months to US$1.9 billion which positions the corporate properly to ship shareholder returns, backfill and maintain our present enterprise, full our main tasks, Barossa and Pikka, and progress our decarbonization plans”, Kevin Gallagher, Santos Managing Director and Chief Govt Officer, stated.
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Gallagher added that Santos accomplished and ramped up its Moomba carbon seize and storage (CCS) challenge. “We achieved full injection charges and secure operation faster than anticipated, and it continues to carry out consistent with expectations. At year-end, it had already saved virtually 340,000 tonnes (gross) of CO2-equivalent. At full injection charges Moomba CCS avoids extra emissions each 4 days than 10,000 electrical vehicles keep away from in a single 12 months”, he stated.
“This can be a sport changer for the expertise and a sport changer for Santos, with Moomba offering an actual injection of confidence that CCS works and might ship on its promise of large-scale, cost-competitive emissions discount”, Gallagher stated.
“Our operational focus for 2025 will likely be to ship our Barossa and Pikka tasks inside price and schedule steerage. I’m more than happy that we’re making wonderful progress in the direction of first fuel at Barossa within the third quarter of this 12 months and first oil at Pikka in Alaska in 2026”, Gallagher stated. “The Barossa Gasoline Mission is sort of 90 % full and advancing to its remaining levels. The Pikka challenge is sort of 75 % full, with the second winter season pipelay actions underway and powerful progress achieved thus far. For each tasks, properly outcomes are consistent with pre-drill expectations”.
Gallagher stated 2024 was additionally a profitable 12 months for Santos’ liquefied pure fuel (LNG) enterprise, with the corporate signing 4 new mid-term LNG contracts through the fourth quarter. “Within the fourth quarter we signed a long-term LNG SPA with Shizuoka Gasoline Co. Ltd and a mid-term LNG SPA with TotalEnergies”, he stated.
“In 2025 we’ll proceed to deal with security, delivering our improvement tasks, decarbonizing our operations, and constructing a industrial carbon administration companies enterprise, in addition to changing into a leaner and extra environment friendly group”, Gallagher stated.
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