Saudi oil giant Aramco has announced a record profit of $161.1bn (£134bn) for 2022, helped by soaring energy prices and bigger volumes.

It represents a 46.5% rise for the state-owned company, compared with last year.

It is the latest energy firm to report record profits, after energy prices spiked following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

America's ExxonMobil made $55.7bn, and Britain's Shell reported $39.9bn.

Aramco also declared a dividend of $19.5 billion for the October to December quarter of 2022, to be paid in the first quarter of this year.

Most of that dividend amount will go to the Saudi Arabian government, which owns nearly 95% of the shares in the company.

Brent crude oil, the benchmark oil price, now trades at around $82 a barrel - though prices exceeded $120 a barrel in March, after Russia's invasion, and June.

"Aramco rode the wave of high energy prices in 2022," said Robert Mogielnicki of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. "It would have been difficult for Aramco not to perform strongly in 2022."
In a statement on Sunday, Aramco said the company results were "underpinned by stronger crude oil prices, higher volumes sold and improved margins for refined products".

Aramco's president and CEO Amin Nasser said: "Given that we anticipate oil and gas will remain essential for the foreseeable future, the risks of underinvestment in our industry are real - including contributing to higher energy prices."

To address those challenges, he said, the company would not only focus on expanding oil, gas and chemicals production - but would also invest in new lower-carbon technologies.

Aramco - the world's second-most valuable company only behind America's Apple - is a major emitter of greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

Responding to Aramco's announcement, Amnesty International's Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: "It is shocking for a company to make a profit of more than $161bn in a single year through the sale of fossil fuel - the single largest driver of the climate crisis".

She added: "It is all the more shocking because this surplus was amassed during a global cost-of-living crisis and aided by the increase in energy prices resulting from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine."

Saudi Arabia is the largest producer in the oil cartel Opec (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries).

But the Gulf kingdom has been condemned for a range of human rights abuses: its involvement in the conflict in neighbouring Yemen, the murder in 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, for jailing dissidents, and for widespread use of capital punishment.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64931074

Tinubu is going to run Aramco business model for NNPLC

Ashiwaju Jagaban

And NNPC is recording loss selling the same crude oil....

Moh247:
Tinubu is going to run Aramco business model for NNPLC

I trust Tinubu, from his records in Lagos, he will achieve something better than Aramco.

Not up to what I make in my shrine every month.

Brendaniel:
And NNPC is recording loss selling the same crude oil....

Be watching credible TV stations, stop tunning to radio biafra where only Peter Obi and Nnamdi Kanu's matters dominate the news items.

While NNPC here is recording loss selling the same crude oil.
O wrong now!

Thank God for renew hope,
We will get there

LeoDeKing:

Be watching credible TV stations, stop tunning to radio biafra where only Peter Obi and Nnamdi Kanu's matters dominate the news items.

All these without proof of good profit from NNPC is just noise and no substance...

Trust the drug barron thief to loot nigerias oil too

Moh247:
Tinubu is going to run Aramco business model for NNPLC

Alpha Beta model where he collect 10% commission of Lagos state monthly taxes since 2003.

swaggerjack:

Alpha Beta model where he collect 10% commission of Lagos state monthly taxes since 2003.

You proof to your claim

ProudEdoBoy:
Trust the drug barron thief to loot nigerias oil too

100%

Saudi Aramco is recording unprecedented profits while NNPC has been incurring losses since it was established.

Honestly, black people are not fit for self-rule. That's why you rarely see a purely black country that works.

SmartPolician:
Saudi Aramco is recording unprecedented profits while NNPC has been incurring losses since it was established.

Honestly, black people are not fit for self-rule. That's why you rarely see a purely black country that works.

Namibia and Botswana are working and building on the foundations laid.

swaggerjack:

Namibia and Botswana are working and building on the foundations laid.

If you want to mention countries, please mention known countries. If your country is working, it's popular because of what you are they bringing to the table.

What does the world know them for? Even the so-called countries that don't work make more international economic impact than those you mentioned.

SmartPolician:


If you want to mention countries, please mention known countries. If your country is working, it's popular because of what you are they bringing to the table.

What does the world know them for? Even the so-called countries that don't work make more international economic impact than those you mentioned.

You claim black people are not fit for self rule

He gave you an example of two working countries that's been ruled by blacks, you start to dey talk nonsense

Parachoko:
You claim black people are not fit for self rule

He gave you an example of two working countries that's been ruled by blacks, you start to dey talk nonsense