Chevron profits up 4.8% despite lower output

Posting profits: Chevron nets the benefit of higher prices to raise earnings despite falling production

Chevron has posted a 4.8% rise in net profits to $6.5 billion in a first quarter the US supermajor said had seen it stay on course for “compelling volume growth” over five years despite lower overall production.

The California-headquartered, New York-listed giant posted steady revenues of $59 billion for the three months, up from $58 billion in the year-ago period.

Chief executive John Watson said that the company had made progress as planned on key projects, citing first production in deep water at Nigeria’s Usan field and at Caesar/Tonga in the Gulf of Mexico.

Global output dipped from 2.76 million equivalent barrels per day at the start of 2011 to 2.63 million this year, a fall Chevron blamed on field declines, downtime and asset selloffs such as Alaska’s Cook inlet.

Domestic production fell 6% year-on-year to 651,000 equivalent…

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