CNOOC profits fall 9.3% to $10.24bn

International moves: CNOOC chairman highlights explorer's overseas expansion

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has reported a 9.3% drop in annual profits to 63.69 billion ($10.24 billion) for 2012 in a drop blamed on higher tax and exploration costs.

The Chinese state explorer raised revenues by 2.9% over the period to 194.77 billion.

China introduced a resource tax on crude oil and natural gas products of 5% of sales in November 2011.

The Hong Kong- and New York-listed explorer said that this new tax as well as other factors hiked its overall costs 16.8% to US$35.73 per barrel of oil equivalent.

CNOOC said it had made 21 discoveries and 19 successful appraisals over the year, with its reserve replacement ratio at 188% for 2012.

Production rose 3.2% year-on-year to 342.4 million boe.

CNOOC chairman Wang Yilin said that the explorer…

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