The following Trading Statement provides a summary of BP p.l.c.’s (bp) current estimates and expectations for the third quarter of 2024, including data on the economic environment as well as group performance during the period.
The information presented is not comprehensive of all factors which may impact bp’s group results for the third quarter 2024 and is not an estimate of those results. Also refer to bp’s second quarter and first half 2024 group results announcement on 30 July 2024 for third quarter and full year 2024 guidance items which continue to apply unless explicitly stated. A summary of that guidance is also provided in the Appendix to this Trading Statement. All information provided is subject to the finalization of bp’s financial reporting processes and actual results may vary.
bp’s group results for the third quarter 2024 are expected to be published on 29 October 2024.
Updated 3Q24 guidance
- Upstream production in the third quarter is now expected to be broadly flat compared to the prior quarter, with production broadly flat in oil production & operations and in gas & low carbon energy.
- In the gas & low carbon energy segment, realizations, compared to the prior quarter, are expected to have a favourable impact of around $0.1 billion, including changes in non-Henry Hub natural gas marker prices. The gas marketing and trading result is expected to be average.
- In the oil production & operations segment, realizations, compared to the prior quarter, are expected to have an unfavourable impact in the range of $0.1 – 0.3 billion, including the impact of price lags on bp’s production in the Gulf of Mexico and the UAE. There is also expected to be an unfavourable impact in the range of $0.2 – 0.3 billion, compared to the prior quarter, as a result of higher exploration write-offs.
- In the customers and products segment, compared to the prior quarter, results are expected to be impacted by the following factors:
- customers – broadly flat fuels margins, seasonally higher volumes partly offset by costs.
- products – weaker realized refining margins in the range of $0.4 – 0.6 billion and the oil trading result is expected to be weak.
- Other items: Net debt at the end of the quarter is now expected to be higher, driven primarily by the impact of weaker realized refining margins and by the rephasing of around $1 billion of divestment proceeds into the fourth quarter.
