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Saudi State-Owned Oil Giant Reports Record Profit of $161 Billion

March 13, 2023
Stephen M.Cby Stephen M.C
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Saudi State-Owned Oil Giant Reports Record Profit of $161 Billion

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

The latest result represents a 46.5% rise for the state-owned company, compared with last year. Aramco is the latest energy firm to report record profits, after energy prices spiked following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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 will go to the Saudi government, which owns nearly 95% of the shares in the company.

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 Brent crude oil, the benchmark oil price, now trades at around $82 a barrel, though prices exceeded $120 a barrel last 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. “It would have been difficult for Aramco not to perform strongly in 2022.”

In a statement, 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, the CEO said the company would not only focus on expanding oil, gas and chemicals production, but 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.

Amnesty Describes the Profit As Shocking

 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 $161 billion in a single year through the sale of fossil fuel – the single largest driver of the climate crisis”.

Agnès Callamard 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 Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

The Gulf kingdom has been condemned for a range of human rights abuses such as its involvement in the conflict in neighbouring Yemen, the murder in 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, for jailing dissidents, and for the widespread use of capital punishment.

In a separate development on Sunday, Iran said its oil exports had reached their highest level since the re-imposition of US sanctions in 2018.

Oil Minister, Javad Owji, said exports increased by 83 million barrels in 2022 compared with the previous 12 months. In Iran, a new year starts in March. Analysts stated the rise is due to greater shipments to Iranian allies China and Venezuela.

Tehran’s export revenues took a significant hit after then-US President Donald Trump pulled out of a landmark nuclear deal five years ago.

The US sanctions, coupled with economic mismanagement and corruption, have meant that the Iranian economy has not had any substantive growth in the past decade. And by some measures, it is still 4-8% smaller than it was back in 2010.

Many oil companies including America’s ExxonMobil made $55.7bn, and Britain’s Shell reported $39.9bn in the just ended financial year.

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