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Raises dividend to 3. 01 euros per share, up several. 1% from 2022

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Company hopes Mozambique, Namibia projects online this season

(Adds shares inside of paragraph 3, CEO comments on Mozambique in paragraph 10)

By Forrest Crellin and Benjamin Mallet

PARIS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - TotalEnergies on Wednesday described a bigger-than-expected fall in its modified income for typically the fourth quarter of 2023 and cautioned weak refining margins would impact the 2024 results.

Earnings from oil premier have been down in 2023 by about a third coming from record levels inside 2022, pressured since oil and gas prices retreated after spiking any time Russia invaded Ukraine.

Shares in TotalEnergies were 3% reduce in midday investing in Paris and were up 2. 8% during the last 6th months.

The Finnish group's net altered income dropped by simply 31% to $5. 2 billion through $7. 6 billion dollars in the same quarter annually earlier. That in comparison with analysts' typical forecast of $5. 4 billion, in accordance to LSEG data.

TotalEnergies' CEO Patrick Pouyanne said that typically the group expected a return of about 10% on its incorporated power sector with regard to 2024.

"A last of investments fixed aside for 2024 will be focused on new petrol plus gas projects, " Pouyanne told reporters.

Pouyanne said that the Rio Avismal Project in the United States had been unaffected by Us president Joe Biden's decision to pause approaching approvals of export products from new LNG projects.

He needs the measures to be lifted, although said that typically the moratorium on specific U. S. LNG installations put upcoming export licences in doubt.

The company desires to develop its first project within Namibia and TotalEnergies will reserve the third of its budget for exploration assignments in the country, he explained.

Pouyanne also said that the corporation was "reactivating" the financing together with its partners for a Mozambique project and was optimistic the project would return to generation by mid-year. They said there seemed to be still engineering and construction to complete.

TotalEnergies followed peers together with plans to come back money to shareholders. It plans to boost interim dividends by six. 8% to zero. 79 euros each share and to buy back $2 million of shares within the first quarter regarding 2024.

That could be the base level for quarterly buybacks "in the current environment", it said.

For 2023, TotalEnergies proposed a gross of 3. 01 euros per share, up 7. 1% from 2022.

The oil and gas group recorded quarterly adjusted core revenue (EBITDA) of $11. 7 billion, lower 27% year-on-year, and production of two. 483 million barrels each day (bpd), straight down 12% year-on-year.

For the whole involving 2023, adjusted net gain fell 36% to be able to $23. 2 billion as oil costs fell back through the peaks hit within 2022 at the particular beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

It expects internet investments of $17 billion to $18 billion for 2024, of which $5 billion will be dedicated to its integrated power section. (Reporting by Forrest Crellin and Dernier-né Mallet; editing by Matt Scuffham, Tag Potter and BETFLIK Emelia Sithole-Matarise, Elaine Hardcastle)