ExxonMobil announces plans to 2030 that build on its unique advantages
1Increases are versus 2024. Earnings and cash flow from operations exclude identified items and are adjusted to 2024 $65/bbl real Brent (assumes annual inflation of 2.5%) and 10-year average Energy, Chemical, and Specialty Product margins, which refer to the average of annual margins from 2010-2019. Cash flow from operations also excludes working capital/other.
2$3 billion in Pioneer synergies is a >50% increase vs. prior disclosures and is based on a 10-year average.
3$3 billion by 2030 subject to additional investment by ExxonMobil, final 45V regulations for hydrogen production credits, and receipt of government permitting for carbon capture and storage projects.
4Lower emissions cash capex includes cash capex attributable to carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, lithium, biofuels, ProxximaTM, Carbon Materials, and activities to lower ExxonMobil’s emissions and/or third party (3P) emissions. Planned spend is from 2025-2030.
5See below for definition of reinvestment rate. Cash flow from operations excludes identified items and working capital/other is adjusted to 2024 $65/bbl real Brent (assumes annual inflation of 2.5%) and 10-year average Energy, Chemical, and Specialty Product margins, which refer to the average of annual margins from 2010-2019.
6Earnings and cash flow from operations exclude identified items and are adjusted to 2024 $65/bbl real Brent (assumes annual inflation of 2.5%) and 10-year average Energy, Chemical, and Specialty Product margins, which refer to the average of annual margins from 2010-2019. Cash flow from operations also excludes working capital/other.
7Third-party cash flow refers to cash flow excluding working capital/other and is calculated as earnings sourced from FactSet plus depreciation sourced from FactSet. 2019 to 2023 figures are actuals. 2024 figures are consensus estimates as of December 5, 2024. Three- and five-year CAGRs are from 2021 to 2024E and 2019 to 2024E respectively.
8Calculated as of November 29, 2024.
9Major investments represents investments over $500 million that are expected to start up between 2025 and 2030. Includes pre-2025 capex spend on these investments, except for the Permian work program, which is limited to capex between 2025-2030. Calculations for full-life major investments returns are based on ExxonMobil internal project plans for investments over $500 million that are expected to start up between 2025 and 2030 and the Permian work program. Calculations include internal project plan price assumptions.
10Surplus cash is calculated assuming 2024 $65 real Brent (assumes annual inflation of 2.5%) and 10-year average Energy, Chemical, and Specialty Product margins, which refer to the average of annual margins from 2010-2019. Any decisions on future dividend levels are at the discretion of the Board of Directors. This calculation assumes dividends are held flat relative to 4Q24 levels. The PP&E / I&A factor includes changes in non-controlling interests. 3Q24 cash balance excludes a $5 billion minimum cash assumption.
11Plans based on Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions from operated assets. Intensity is calculated as emissions per metric ton of throughput/production. ExxonMobil reported emissions, reductions, and avoidance performance data are based on a combination of measured and estimated emissions data using reasonable efforts and collection methods. Calculations are based on industry standards and best practices, including guidance from the American Petroleum Institute (API) and Ipieca. There is uncertainty associated with the emissions, reductions, and avoidance performance data due to variation in the processes and operations, the availability of sufficient data, quality of those data, and methodology used for measurement and estimation. Performance data may include rounding. Changes to the performance data may be reported as part of the Company’s annual publications as new or updated data and/or emission methodologies become available. We are working to continuously improve our performance and methods to detect, measure and address greenhouse gas emissions. ExxonMobil works with industry, including API and Ipieca, to improve emission factors and methodologies, including measurements and estimates. ExxonMobil’s plans regarding expected GHG emissions reductions by 2030 can be found in our 2024 Advancing Climate Solutions report.
12Based on Enverus 2024 Permian Basin Play Fundamentals article with updated data as of 10/2024 | Locations normalized to 10,000-foot laterals; Peers include Apache Corporation, BP, ConocoPhillips, Coterra Energy, Chevron, Devon Energy, Diamondback Energy, EOG Resources, Matador Resources, Ovintiv, Occidental, and Permian Resources. PV-10 Breakeven @ 20:1 WTI:HH ($/bbl).
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ExxonMobil, one of the largest publicly traded international energy and petrochemical companies, creates solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs.
The corporation’s primary businesses – Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions – provide products that enable modern life, including energy, chemicals, lubricants, and lower emissions technologies. ExxonMobil holds an industry-leading portfolio of resources, and is one of the largest integrated fuels, lubricants, and chemical companies in the world. ExxonMobil also owns and operates the largest CO2 pipeline network in the United States. In 2021, ExxonMobil announced Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emission-reduction plans for 2030 for operated assets, compared to 2016 levels. The plans are to achieve a 20-30% reduction in corporate-wide greenhouse gas intensity; a 40-50% reduction in greenhouse gas intensity of upstream operations; a 70-80% reduction in corporate-wide methane intensity; and a 60-70% reduction in corporate-wide flaring intensity.
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Cautionary Statement
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. Statements of future events, conditions, expectations, plans, performance, earnings power, opportunities, potential addressable markets, ambitions, or results in this release are forward-looking statements. Similarly, discussions of future projects or markets for carbon capture, transportation, and storage, biofuels, hydrogen, ammonia, lithium, direct air capture, and other low carbon business plans to reduce emissions and emission intensity of ExxonMobil, its affiliates, or third parties are dependent on future market factors, such as continued technological progress, stable policy support, and timely rule-making and permitting, and represent forward-looking statements. Actual future results, including financial and operating performance; potential earnings, cash flow, surplus cash, dividends, share repurchases, or shareholder returns; total cash capital expenditures and mix, including allocations of capital to low carbon investments; realization and maintenance of structural cost reductions and efficiency gains, including the ability to offset inflationary pressures; plans to reduce future emissions and emissions intensity; ambitions to reach Scope 1 and Scope 2 net zero from operated assets by 2050, to reach Scope 1 and 2 net zero in heritage Upstream Permian Basin unconventional operated assets by 2030 and Pioneer Permian assets by 2035, to eliminate routine flaring in-line with World Bank Zero Routine Flaring, to reach near-zero methane emissions from operated assets and other methane initiatives, to meet ExxonMobil’s emission reduction plans and goals, divestment and start-up plans, and associated project plans as well as technology advances, including in the timing and outcome of projects to capture and store CO2, produce hydrogen and ammonia, produce biofuels, produce lithium, create new advanced carbon materials, and use plastic waste as feedstock for advanced recycling; maintenance and turnaround activity; drilling and improvement programs; price and margin recovery; planned Pioneer or Denbury integration benefits; resource recoveries and production rates; and product sales levels and mix could differ materially due to a number of factors. 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Supplemental Information
See the Supplemental Information below through the end of this press release for additional important information required by Regulation G for non-GAAP measures, measures that the company considers useful to investors, and definitions of terms used in herein, including cash capex; cash opex excluding energy and production taxes; earnings and cash flow ex. identified items and working capital / other adjusted to 2024 $65/bbl real Brent and 10-year average Energy, Chemical, and Specialty Products margins; operating costs; shareholder distributions; and structural cost savings. Supplemental Information also includes information on the assumptions used in these materials, including assumptions on future crude oil prices and product margins used to develop outlooks regarding future potential outcomes of current management plans.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING CERTAIN FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. For all price point comparisons, unless otherwise indicated, we assume $65/bbl Brent crude prices, $3/mmbtu Henry Hub gas prices, and $6.5/mmbtu TTF gas prices. Unless otherwise specified, crude prices are Brent prices. These are used for clear comparison purposes and are not necessarily representative of management’s internal price assumptions. Crude and natural gas prices for future years are adjusted for inflation (assumption of 2.5%) from 2024. Operating costs and capex are also inflated consistent with plans done on a country-by-country basis. Energy, Chemical, and Specialty Product margins reflect annual historical averages for the 10-year period from 2010-2019 unless otherwise stated. Lower emissions returns are calculated based on current and potential future government policies based on ExxonMobil projections as of the date of this presentation. These prices are not intended to reflect management’s forecasts for future prices or the prices we use for internal planning purposes. Unless otherwise indicated, asset sales and proceeds and Corporate and Financing expenses are aligned with our internal planning. Corporate and Financing expenses reflect estimated potential debt levels under various disclosed scenarios. All references to production rates, project capacity, resource size, and acreage are on a net basis, unless otherwise noted. All references to tons refer to metric tons, unless otherwise noted.
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Our capital allocation plans do not extend beyond 2030. Statements about our businesses that reference periods beyond 2030 are made on a basis consistent with ExxonMobil’s Global Outlook, which is publicly available on our website.
Frequently Used Terms and Non-GAAP Measures
Advantaged assets (Advantaged growth projects). When used in reference to our Upstream business, includes Permian (heritage Permian and Pioneer), Guyana, and LNG.
Advantaged projects. Capital projects and programs of work that contribute to Energy, Chemical, and/or Specialty Products segments that drive integration of segments/businesses, increase yield of higher value products, or deliver higher than average returns.
Capital and exploration expenditures (Capital expenditures, Capex). Represents the combined total of additions at cost to property, plant and equipment, and exploration expenses on a before-tax basis from the Consolidated Statement of Income. ExxonMobil’s Capex includes its share of similar costs for equity companies. Capex excludes assets acquired in nonmonetary exchanges, the value of ExxonMobil shares used to acquire assets, and depreciation on the cost of exploration support equipment and facilities recorded to property, plant and equipment when acquired. While ExxonMobil’s management is responsible for all investments and elements of net income, particular focus is placed on managing the controllable aspects of this group of expenditures.
Cash capital expenditures (Cash Capex) (Non-GAAP). Sum of Additions to property, plant and equipment; Additional investments and advances; and Other investing activities including collection of advances; reduced by Inflows from noncontrolling interests for major projects, each from the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. Prior to fourth quarter 2024, Inflows from noncontrolling interests for major projects was included within Changes in noncontrolling interests on the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. This measure is useful for investors to understand the current period cash impact of investments in the business.
Cash operating expenses (cash opex) excluding energy and production taxes (non-GAAP). Subset of total operating costs that are stewarded internally to support management’s oversight of spending over time. This measure is useful for investors to understand our efforts to optimize cash through disciplined expense management for items within management’s control.
Compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Represents the consistent rate at which an investment or business result would have grown had the investment or business result compounded at the same rate each year.
Distributions to shareholders (shareholder distributions). The Corporation distributes cash to shareholders in the form of both dividends and share purchases. Shares are acquired to reduce shares outstanding and to offset shares or units settled in shares issued in conjunction with company benefit plans and programs. For the purposes of calculating distributions to shareholders, the Corporation includes only the cost of those shares acquired to reduce shares outstanding.
Divestments. Refers to asset sales; results include associated cash proceeds and production impacts, as applicable, and are consistent with our internal planning.
Earnings (loss) excluding Identified Items (Earnings ex. Ident. Items) (non-GAAP). Earnings (loss) excluding individually significant non-operational events with, typically, an absolute corporate total earnings impact of at least $250 million in a given quarter. The earnings (loss) impact of an Identified Item for an individual segment may be less than $250 million when the item impacts several periods or several segments. Earnings (loss) excluding Identified Items does include non-operational earnings events or impacts that are generally below the $250 million threshold utilized for Identified Items. When the effect of these events is significant in aggregate, it is indicated in analysis of period results as part of quarterly earnings press release and teleconference materials. Management uses these figures to improve comparability of the underlying business across multiple periods by isolating and removing significant non-operational events from business results. The Corporation believes this view provides investors increased transparency into business results and trends and provides investors with a view of the business as seen through the eyes of management. Earnings (loss) excluding Identified Items is not meant to be viewed in isolation or as a substitute for net income (loss) attributable to ExxonMobil as prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
Heritage Permian. Permian basin assets excluding assets acquired as part of the acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources that closed in May 2024.
High-value products. Includes performance products and lower-emissions fuels.
Industry-leading results (industry-leading returns, industry-leading financial performance, industry-leading shareholder value). Includes our leadership in metrics such as earnings, cash flow, dividends paid, share buybacks, and total shareholder return versus the IOCs. Similar terms, such as industry-leading performance or industry-leading shareholder value, refer to our leadership versus the IOCs in metrics such as production or individual terms such as return on capital employed and total shareholder return as applicable in the context presented.
IOCs. Unless stated otherwise, IOCs include each of BP, Chevron, Shell, and TotalEnergies.
Lower-emission fuels. Fuels with lower life cycle emissions than conventional transportation fuels for gasoline, diesel, and jet transport.
Operating costs (Opex) (non-GAAP). Operating costs are the costs during the period to produce, manufacture, and otherwise prepare the company’s products for sale – including energy, staffing, and maintenance costs. They exclude the cost of raw materials, taxes, and interest expense and are on a before-tax basis. While ExxonMobil’s management is responsible for all revenue and expense elements of net income, operating costs, as defined above, represent the expenses most directly under management’s control, and therefore are useful for investors and ExxonMobil management in evaluating management’s performance.
Performance products (performance chemicals, performance lubricants). Refers to products that provide differentiated performance for multiple applications through enhanced properties versus commodity alternatives and bring significant additional value to customers and end-users.
Project. The term “project” as used in this presentation can refer to a variety of different activities and does not necessarily have the same meaning as in any government payment transparency reports. Projects or plans may not reflect investment decisions made by the company. Individual opportunities may advance based on a number of factors, including availability of supportive policy, technology for cost-effective abatement, and alignment with our partners and other stakeholders. The company may refer to these opportunities as projects in external disclosures at various stages throughout their progression.
Reinvestment rate. Cash capex as a percentage of cash flow from operations excluding identified items and working capital / other.
Returns, rate of return, investment returns, project returns, IRR. Unless referring specifically to ROCE or external data, references to returns, rate of return, IRR, and similar terms mean future discounted cash flow returns on future capital investments based on current company estimates. Investment returns exclude prior exploration and acquisition costs.
Structural cost savings (structural cost reductions, structural cost efficiencies, structural efficiencies, structural cost improvements). Structural cost savings describe decreases in cash opex excluding energy and production taxes as a result of operational efficiencies, workforce reductions, divestment-related reductions, and other cost-savings measures, that are expected to be sustainable compared to 2019 levels. Relative to 2019, estimated cumulative structural cost savings totaled $11.3 billion as of September 30, 2024. The total change between periods in expenses will reflect both structural cost savings and other changes in spend, including market factors, such as inflation and foreign exchange impacts, as well as changes in activity levels and costs associated with new operations, mergers and acquisitions, new business venture development, and early-stage projects. Estimates of cumulative annual structural savings may be revised depending on whether cost reductions realized in prior periods are determined to be sustainable compared to 2019 levels. Structural cost savings are stewarded internally to support management’s oversight of spending over time. This measure is useful for investors to understand our efforts to optimize spending through disciplined expense management.
Structural earnings improvements (structural improvements, growing earnings power, improved earnings power). Structural earnings improvements consist of efforts to improve earnings on a like-for-like price and margin basis and incorporate improvement efforts by the corporation such as growing advantaged assets, improving mix, and reducing structural costs.
Synergies. Synergies refer to pre-tax increases in cash flow due to factors such as higher resource recovery, lower development costs, lower operating costs, among others.
Technology investments. Expenditures to fund and support the activities of the ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, which includes research, development, engineering, and information technology. Other technology expenditures are not included in the definition for this disclosure.
Total shareholder return (TSR). For the purposes of this disclosure, total shareholder return is as defined by FactSet and measures the change in value of an investment in common stock over a specified period of time, assuming dividend reinvestment. For this purpose, FactSet assumes dividends are reinvested in stock at market prices on the ex-dividend date. Unless stated otherwise, total shareholder return is quoted on an annualized basis.
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