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Raises dividend to three. 01 euros each share, up 8. 1% from 2022
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Gives you drop 3%
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Firm hopes Mozambique, Maltahohe, namibia projects online this year
(Adds shares inside of paragraph 3, CEO comments on Mozambique in paragraph 10)
By Forrest Crellin and BETFLIK เข้าสู่ระบบ Benjamin Mallet
PARIS, Feb seven (Reuters) - TotalEnergies on Wednesday reported a bigger-than-expected decline in its modified income for the fourth quarter involving 2023 and aware weak refining margins would impact it is 2024 results.
Income from oil majors have been lower in 2023 by about a third from record levels within 2022, pressured as oil and gas prices retreated after spiking whenever Russia invaded Ukraine.
Shares in TotalEnergies were 3% reduce in midday stock trading in Paris plus were up 2. 8% during the last 6th months.
The French group's net altered income dropped by 31% to $5. 2 billion through $7. 6 billion dollars in the same one fourth a year earlier. That will compared to analysts' average forecast of $5. 4 billion, based to LSEG data.
TotalEnergies' CEO Patrick Pouyanne said that the group expected a return of about 10% on its integrated power sector intended for 2024.
"A last of investments set aside for 2024 will be focused on new petrol and gas projects, inch Pouyanne told reporters.
Pouyanne said that the Rio Grande Project in the particular United States had been unaffected by Us president Joe Biden's decision to pause impending approvals of exports from new LNG projects.
He desires the measures to be able to be lifted, but said that typically the moratorium on certain U. S. LNG installations put long term export licences in doubt.
The company expectations to develop it is first project throughout Namibia and TotalEnergies will put aside a third of it is budget for exploration jobs in the united states, he stated.
Pouyanne also mentioned that the organization was "reactivating" the financing together with its partners with regard to a Mozambique project and was aspirant the project might return to creation by mid-year. He or she said there was still engineering and construction to complete.
TotalEnergies followed peers along with plans to come back capital to shareholders. That plans to improve interim dividends by 6th. 8% to 0. 79 euros per share and buy back $2 billion dollars of shares within the first quarter regarding 2024.
That might be the base stage for quarterly buybacks "in the existing environment", it explained.
For 2023, TotalEnergies proposed a gross of 3. 01 euros per talk about, up 7. 1% from 2022.
The gas and oil group recorded quarterly adjusted core earnings (EBITDA) of $11. 7 billion, straight down 27% year-on-year, in addition to production of a couple of. 483 million barrels daily (bpd), lower 12% year-on-year.
Intended for the whole of 2023, adjusted net income fell 36% to be able to $23. 2 billion as oil rates fell back from the peaks hit within 2022 at the particular beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
It expects net investments of $17 billion to $18 billion for 2024, of which $5 billion will become dedicated to the integrated power area. (Reporting by Forrest Crellin and Benjamin Mallet; editing by Matt Scuffham, Tag Potter and Emelia Sithole-Matarise, Elaine Hardcastle)