Profit BP from Rosneft participation in the second quarter of 2021 increased by 77.1 percent compared to the first quarter – to 643 million US dollars. Following the first half of the year, the profit of BP from participation in Rosneft reached $ 1,006 billion, which is approximately 13 percent of the total net profit of the British company obtained during this period. This follows from published reporting BP.
bp, at the expense of participation in Rosneft, also could reflect in the reporting another positive moment for investors – hydrocarbon production in the amount of 1,073 million barrels of the oil equivalent per day. Thus, a third of all production BP (3,242 million barrels of oil equivalent) was obtained by Rosneft.
in Rosneft BP belongs to 19.75 percent. In July 2021, the head of BP Bernard Lunie noted that “Rosneft”, no doubt, is a key part of our business and our strategy. “
According to Interfax, BP oil company recorded a net profit of 3.12 billion in the second quarter of 2021 compared with a net loss of 16.85 billion dollars in the same period a year earlier. In this regard, the company will increase the dividends by 4 percent to 5.46 cents per share, and will also launch a 1,4 billion dollar shares program, which intends to complete before declaring results for the third quarter. BP plans to quarterly redeem its own shares for about $ 1 billion and raise dividends by 4 percent until the end of 2025, provided that the price of oil will be no less than $ 60 per barrel.
Profit reserves adjusted for replacing costs (Replacement COST – RC – Profit / Loss, the equivalent of net profit / net loss for American oil companies, but excluding one-time factors) in April-June amounted to 2.8 billion dollars compared with 2, 6 billion dollars in January-March of the current year and a loss of $ 6.7 billion in the second quarter of 2020. At the same time, the indicator was better than the consensus forecast of analysts at $ 2.15 billion.
Profit growth is due to an increase in oil prices, as well as the profitability of operations, the BP press release says.
The cumulative production of BP hydrocarbons in the first half of 2021 amounted to 3.24 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, which is 11.3 percent lower than a year earlier. The average price of Brent oil in April-June amounted to 68.97 dollars per barrel compared to $ 61.12 per barrel in the first quarter of the current year and $ 29.56 per barrel in the second quarter of 2020.
The company expects that, according to the results of 2021, the production will be lower than a year earlier, due to the separation of some assets.
BP shares are added in price of 2.5 percent at bargains on Tuesday. Since the beginning of the current year, their cost has increased by 16.5 percent.