The Australian major reported 8% increases in both net profit after tax and operating revenue, at $873 million and $2.86 billion respectively, for the first half of 2013.
This was underpinned by a record 22.5% rise in production to 41.9 million barrels of oil equivalent.
Woodside chief financial officer Lawrie Tremaine said in a teleconference on Wednesday that a full six months of output from Pluto was the main driver of this positive result: “Pluto again performed above expectations over the period, although we did have an unplanned outage in late June.
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