Exxon Mobil ( XOM )
Exxon Mobil Corp's chief, Darren Woods, to analysts on how he expects to double earnings to $31 billion by 2025:
-Growth coming online from new and existing projects is expected to increase production from 4 million oil-equivalent barrels per day to about 5 million.
-The company plans to increase tight-oil [aka shale] production five-fold from the U.S. Permian Basin.
-25 start-up projects worldwide will add more than 1 million oil-equivalent barrels per day.
Key growth areas:
-Guyana has added 3.2 billion gross oil equivalent barrels of recoverable resource.
-Permian -- the company has tripled its estimated recoverable resource to 9.5 billion oil-equivalent barrels
and the acquisition cost of the Bass properties there to just above $1 per oil-equivalent barrel.
-Downstream -- upgrading its product slate through strategic investments at refineries in Baytown and Beaumont in Texas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Singapore, and Fawley in the U.K.... to produce more higher value products, including ultra-low sulfur diesel, chemicals feedstocks and basestocks for lubricants, projected to increase margins by 20%.
-Chemicals -- adding capacity in North America and Asia Pacific by about 40%, including adding 13 new facilities, including two world-class steam crackers in the United States.
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