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Unter den Einzelaktien zogen Woodside Petroleum in Sydney um 2,5 Prozent an. Das Nettoergebnis im ersten Halbjahr traf die Markterwartungen. Der Ölkonzern hielt zudem an seinen Jahresproduktionszielen fest
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Event Calendar
Am 29.06.2015 endet das Halbjahr des Geschäftsjahres bei Woodside, am 15.07. werden Quartalsergebnisse präsentiert.Am 18.08. wird die Interimsdividende verkündet, bin gespannt wie viel es dieses Jahr (noch) gibt.
2014 gab's 1,11 USD nach 0,83 in 2013. (jeweils nur Interim - die finaldividend folgt im Frühjahr)
Quelle: http://www.woodside.com.au/Investors-Media/Pages/Events-Cale…
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Woodside Petroleum Full-year Profit Up 38%; Reiterates 2015 Production Outlook
Australian oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum Ltd. on Wednesday reported a 38 percent increase in profit for fiscal 2014, reflecting higher production and realized prices. Looking ahead, the company reiterated its production guidance for fiscal 2015, but lowered its business investment expenditure forecast for the year by 20 percent.
For fiscal 2014, Woodside Petroleum's net profit after tax was $2.41 billion or 293 cents, up from $1.75 billion or 213 cents in the prior year. The company noted that the net profit for the year was the second highest in its history, exceeded only by the 2012 result that was enhanced by the Browse partial equity sale.
Excluding non-recurring items, underlying net profit after tax for the year was $2.42 billion or 294 cents, compared to $1.70 billion or 207 cents in the previous year.
Sales revenue for the year grew 23 percent to $7.08 billion from $5.78 billion last year.
The increase in sales revenue reflects higher LNG and oil sales with a full year of production from the Vincent FPSO, and higher LNG realized pricing at Pluto. Woodside's average realized prices for the year were $75.89/boe, up 13 percent from last year.
Production volume for the quarter increased 9 percent to 95.1 million barrels of oil equivalent or MMboe from 87.0 MMboe in the prior year. The increase in production and sales volume reflect higher LNG reliability at North West Shelf or NWS and Pluto as well as a full year of production from Vincent FPSO.
Looking ahead to 2015, Woodside Petroleum reaffirmed its production target in a range of 84 MMboe to 91 MMboe.
This range does not include production from the Apache asset purchase which is expected to be 3 MMboe to 4 MMboe based on a targeted transaction close date of March 31, 2015. The additional range reflects the inclusion of Balnaves oil production and Kitimat pipeline natural gas production, split approximately 55 percent Balnaves oil and 45 percent Kitimat pipeline natural gas.
However, Woodside said it has reduced its outlook for fiscal 2015 business investment expenditure by 20 percent relative to its original plan, to $6.2 billion.
Peter Coleman, CEO of Woodside Petroleum said, 'Our focus on lowering cost structures is evidenced in unit production costs decreasing. Continuous improvement in driving business efficiencies will remain our priority in the current challenging market conditions.'
The company noted that the current low oil price environment may continue for an extended period.
Woodside's board of directors declared a final dividend for 2014 of $1.44 per share, up 40 percent on the final dividend for 2013. The dividend will be paid on March 25, 2015 to all shareholders registered on the record date of February 27, 2015.
The ex-dividend date for dividend entitlement will be February 25, 2015. The dividend will be fully franked for Australian taxation purposes.
On the Australian stock exchange, Woodside Petroleum's shares are currently trading at A$36.29, up A$1.38 or 3.95 percent on a volume of 3.81 million shares.
Quelle: DPA-AFX News
Woodside Petroleum Full-year Profit Up 38%; Reiterates 2015 Production Outlook
Australian oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum Ltd. on Wednesday reported a 38 percent increase in profit for fiscal 2014, reflecting higher production and realized prices. Looking ahead, the company reiterated its production guidance for fiscal 2015, but lowered its business investment expenditure forecast for the year by 20 percent.
For fiscal 2014, Woodside Petroleum's net profit after tax was $2.41 billion or 293 cents, up from $1.75 billion or 213 cents in the prior year. The company noted that the net profit for the year was the second highest in its history, exceeded only by the 2012 result that was enhanced by the Browse partial equity sale.
Excluding non-recurring items, underlying net profit after tax for the year was $2.42 billion or 294 cents, compared to $1.70 billion or 207 cents in the previous year.
Sales revenue for the year grew 23 percent to $7.08 billion from $5.78 billion last year.
The increase in sales revenue reflects higher LNG and oil sales with a full year of production from the Vincent FPSO, and higher LNG realized pricing at Pluto. Woodside's average realized prices for the year were $75.89/boe, up 13 percent from last year.
Production volume for the quarter increased 9 percent to 95.1 million barrels of oil equivalent or MMboe from 87.0 MMboe in the prior year. The increase in production and sales volume reflect higher LNG reliability at North West Shelf or NWS and Pluto as well as a full year of production from Vincent FPSO.
Looking ahead to 2015, Woodside Petroleum reaffirmed its production target in a range of 84 MMboe to 91 MMboe.
This range does not include production from the Apache asset purchase which is expected to be 3 MMboe to 4 MMboe based on a targeted transaction close date of March 31, 2015. The additional range reflects the inclusion of Balnaves oil production and Kitimat pipeline natural gas production, split approximately 55 percent Balnaves oil and 45 percent Kitimat pipeline natural gas.
However, Woodside said it has reduced its outlook for fiscal 2015 business investment expenditure by 20 percent relative to its original plan, to $6.2 billion.
Peter Coleman, CEO of Woodside Petroleum said, 'Our focus on lowering cost structures is evidenced in unit production costs decreasing. Continuous improvement in driving business efficiencies will remain our priority in the current challenging market conditions.'
The company noted that the current low oil price environment may continue for an extended period.
Woodside's board of directors declared a final dividend for 2014 of $1.44 per share, up 40 percent on the final dividend for 2013. The dividend will be paid on March 25, 2015 to all shareholders registered on the record date of February 27, 2015.
The ex-dividend date for dividend entitlement will be February 25, 2015. The dividend will be fully franked for Australian taxation purposes.
On the Australian stock exchange, Woodside Petroleum's shares are currently trading at A$36.29, up A$1.38 or 3.95 percent on a volume of 3.81 million shares.
Quelle: DPA-AFX News
Woodside, ONGC Beat Rivals in Protection From Plunge in Oil
A pair of unlikely standouts in Asia are better positioned than the super-majors and many national oil companies to survive the current oil price downturn, and even thrive from it.
On the key measure of how much cash they generate and retain, Perth-based Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL) and Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) of New Delhi lead the 75 companies in the Bloomberg World Oil & Gas Index on a relative basis. That free cash flow gives them the flexibility to bolster balance sheets, keep shareholders happy, or snap up assets on the cheap.
Among the measures used to gauge protection from falling prices, free cash flow is “the most sensible starting point,” according to James Hubbard, an analyst at Macquarie Group Ltd. in Hong Kong.
“Companies that benefit the most in this environment are the ones that have good operating as well as financial flexibility,” said Buddhika Piyasena, a senior director at Fitch Ratings in Singapore. “Strong cash balances give the opportunity to pick up attractive M&A opportunities.”
Should Brent crude stay at about $50 this year, the industry would need to slash spending by almost half to maintain current debt levels, according to Fraser McKay, an analyst at energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie Ltd. in Houston.
Bargains
Woodside, Australia’s second-largest oil and gas producer, has a free-cash-flow margin of 44 percent, while ONGC, India’s biggest explorer, has a margin of 24 percent, according to the data compiled by Bloomberg. That compares with 2.9 percent at Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and 1 percent at ConocoPhillips.
Free-cash-flow yield, a measure of how much cash from operations a business generates relative to its share price, is another way to compare producers, Hubbard said. By that measure, Woodside and ONGC rank behind only OAO Rosneft, Valero Energy Corp. and OAO Tatneft.
Even after its $2.75 billion purchase last month of Apache Corp. assets, Woodside has a more conservative balance sheet than Australian competitors Santos Ltd. and Oil Search Ltd., said Nik Burns, a Melbourne-based analyst at UBS AG.
Woodside’s Pluto gas project in Western Australia started exports to Asia in 2012, bringing in significant amounts of cash. The company also scrapped a deal last year to buy a stake in Israel’s Leviathan gas development for as much as $2.6 billion, while its $2.7 billion plan to buy back stock from Royal Dutch Shell Plc was blocked by shareholders.
Low Debt
That could put the company in a prime position to pursue further deals as the largest producers cut spending. Woodside is expanding overseas as growth plans at home face delays and said last year it’s looking for investments of about $5 billion.
“The competition for assets isn’t as great as it was 12 months ago,” Burns said. “When the time’s right, Woodside might find it’s one of just a handful of companies pursuing acquisitions, and might be able to pick up some bargains.”
ONGC and Woodside won’t get through the slump unscathed.
The Australian company signaled spending cuts and announced as much as $400 million of writedowns. A rapid drop in oil means Woodside’s future earnings and dividends will be considerably lower than last year, according to a UBS report.
Woodside dropped 5.6 percent to A$32.25 in Sydney today, the lowest level in 2 ½ years. JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts in a report predicted that a smaller dividend will erode the value of the shares and lowered their rating to underweight from neutral.
Still, its spending commitments are low and it has a “huge amount of optionality in its balance sheet,” Chief Executive Officer Peter Coleman told analysts last month. Woodside said in August it had $2.7 billion in cash, compared with its market value today of about A$27 billion ($22 billion).
Gas Prices
ONGC, with about $4 billion in cash, is benefiting from higher domestic gas prices. It expects oil prices to stay near current levels for the next 10 months, giving the company its best opportunity to buy assets, Narendra Kumar Verma, managing director of its overseas unit, said this month. Explorers with debt-laden balance sheets will be likely targets.
“Our balance sheet is pretty strong because we don’t have any debt at the company, though we have some at the group level,” Aloke Kumar Banerjee, ONGC’s New Delhi-based finance director, said in a Jan. 15 phone interview. “The recent hike in gas prices in India is also increasing our cash flow.”
India’s government raised natural gas tariffs 34 percent in October. The government also is expected to reduce the discounts that state-controlled ONGC and Oil India Ltd. have to provide to refiners, improving their cash margins under low oil prices, a Fitch report this month showed.
ONGC gained as much as 1.2 percent to 351.50 rupees and traded at 348.85 rupees as of 11:12 a.m. in Mumbai. The stock has risen 21 percent in the past 12 months through yesterday, while Woodside has declined 13 percent and the Bloomberg oil index dropped 15 percent.
In Asia, Thailand’s PTT Pcl and Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd., focusing on natural gas, are in better shape than rivals that produce more oil, Fitch’s Piyasena said.
Exxon Protection
Cash flow margins are only one measure, with McKay of Wood Mackenzie saying the producers that will fare the best are ones that have done the most hedging. They are the companies “that can live within cash flow and still provide growth,” and the largest oil producers with strong balance sheets, he said.
“You can be negative free cash flow, but if you’ve got a strong balance sheet -- the balance sheet of an Exxon -- then you can withstand this situation three, four, five years,” according to Hubbard, the Macquarie analyst.
PetroChina Co. has a balance sheet that could withstand even $60 a barrel for several years “with no stress,” according to a Jan. 12 Macquarie report.
At the bottom of the list of oil producers on a relative cash flow basis are companies such as Santos (STO), which is under pressure before the scheduled start up later this year of its $18.5 billion Gladstone liquefied natural gas project. The Adelaide-based company’s net debt is forecast to peak at about A$7.6 billion this year, UBS estimated.
“Santos finds itself with considerable debt just ahead of the startup of the GLNG project,” the analyst Burns said. “Investors have been waiting for the wall of cash to arrive from the completion of the major LNG investments that have occurred over the last few years, but the size of that wall is rapidly diminishing” as oil prices drop, he said.
Quelle: Bloomberg
A pair of unlikely standouts in Asia are better positioned than the super-majors and many national oil companies to survive the current oil price downturn, and even thrive from it.
On the key measure of how much cash they generate and retain, Perth-based Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL) and Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) of New Delhi lead the 75 companies in the Bloomberg World Oil & Gas Index on a relative basis. That free cash flow gives them the flexibility to bolster balance sheets, keep shareholders happy, or snap up assets on the cheap.
Among the measures used to gauge protection from falling prices, free cash flow is “the most sensible starting point,” according to James Hubbard, an analyst at Macquarie Group Ltd. in Hong Kong.
“Companies that benefit the most in this environment are the ones that have good operating as well as financial flexibility,” said Buddhika Piyasena, a senior director at Fitch Ratings in Singapore. “Strong cash balances give the opportunity to pick up attractive M&A opportunities.”
Should Brent crude stay at about $50 this year, the industry would need to slash spending by almost half to maintain current debt levels, according to Fraser McKay, an analyst at energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie Ltd. in Houston.
Bargains
Woodside, Australia’s second-largest oil and gas producer, has a free-cash-flow margin of 44 percent, while ONGC, India’s biggest explorer, has a margin of 24 percent, according to the data compiled by Bloomberg. That compares with 2.9 percent at Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and 1 percent at ConocoPhillips.
Free-cash-flow yield, a measure of how much cash from operations a business generates relative to its share price, is another way to compare producers, Hubbard said. By that measure, Woodside and ONGC rank behind only OAO Rosneft, Valero Energy Corp. and OAO Tatneft.
Even after its $2.75 billion purchase last month of Apache Corp. assets, Woodside has a more conservative balance sheet than Australian competitors Santos Ltd. and Oil Search Ltd., said Nik Burns, a Melbourne-based analyst at UBS AG.
Woodside’s Pluto gas project in Western Australia started exports to Asia in 2012, bringing in significant amounts of cash. The company also scrapped a deal last year to buy a stake in Israel’s Leviathan gas development for as much as $2.6 billion, while its $2.7 billion plan to buy back stock from Royal Dutch Shell Plc was blocked by shareholders.
Low Debt
That could put the company in a prime position to pursue further deals as the largest producers cut spending. Woodside is expanding overseas as growth plans at home face delays and said last year it’s looking for investments of about $5 billion.
“The competition for assets isn’t as great as it was 12 months ago,” Burns said. “When the time’s right, Woodside might find it’s one of just a handful of companies pursuing acquisitions, and might be able to pick up some bargains.”
ONGC and Woodside won’t get through the slump unscathed.
The Australian company signaled spending cuts and announced as much as $400 million of writedowns. A rapid drop in oil means Woodside’s future earnings and dividends will be considerably lower than last year, according to a UBS report.
Woodside dropped 5.6 percent to A$32.25 in Sydney today, the lowest level in 2 ½ years. JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts in a report predicted that a smaller dividend will erode the value of the shares and lowered their rating to underweight from neutral.
Still, its spending commitments are low and it has a “huge amount of optionality in its balance sheet,” Chief Executive Officer Peter Coleman told analysts last month. Woodside said in August it had $2.7 billion in cash, compared with its market value today of about A$27 billion ($22 billion).
Gas Prices
ONGC, with about $4 billion in cash, is benefiting from higher domestic gas prices. It expects oil prices to stay near current levels for the next 10 months, giving the company its best opportunity to buy assets, Narendra Kumar Verma, managing director of its overseas unit, said this month. Explorers with debt-laden balance sheets will be likely targets.
“Our balance sheet is pretty strong because we don’t have any debt at the company, though we have some at the group level,” Aloke Kumar Banerjee, ONGC’s New Delhi-based finance director, said in a Jan. 15 phone interview. “The recent hike in gas prices in India is also increasing our cash flow.”
India’s government raised natural gas tariffs 34 percent in October. The government also is expected to reduce the discounts that state-controlled ONGC and Oil India Ltd. have to provide to refiners, improving their cash margins under low oil prices, a Fitch report this month showed.
ONGC gained as much as 1.2 percent to 351.50 rupees and traded at 348.85 rupees as of 11:12 a.m. in Mumbai. The stock has risen 21 percent in the past 12 months through yesterday, while Woodside has declined 13 percent and the Bloomberg oil index dropped 15 percent.
In Asia, Thailand’s PTT Pcl and Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd., focusing on natural gas, are in better shape than rivals that produce more oil, Fitch’s Piyasena said.
Exxon Protection
Cash flow margins are only one measure, with McKay of Wood Mackenzie saying the producers that will fare the best are ones that have done the most hedging. They are the companies “that can live within cash flow and still provide growth,” and the largest oil producers with strong balance sheets, he said.
“You can be negative free cash flow, but if you’ve got a strong balance sheet -- the balance sheet of an Exxon -- then you can withstand this situation three, four, five years,” according to Hubbard, the Macquarie analyst.
PetroChina Co. has a balance sheet that could withstand even $60 a barrel for several years “with no stress,” according to a Jan. 12 Macquarie report.
At the bottom of the list of oil producers on a relative cash flow basis are companies such as Santos (STO), which is under pressure before the scheduled start up later this year of its $18.5 billion Gladstone liquefied natural gas project. The Adelaide-based company’s net debt is forecast to peak at about A$7.6 billion this year, UBS estimated.
“Santos finds itself with considerable debt just ahead of the startup of the GLNG project,” the analyst Burns said. “Investors have been waiting for the wall of cash to arrive from the completion of the major LNG investments that have occurred over the last few years, but the size of that wall is rapidly diminishing” as oil prices drop, he said.
Quelle: Bloomberg
Dividend and cost cuts ahead for Woodside
– Thu, Jan 15, 2015 3:04 PM AEDT
Woodside Petroleum will slash spending and is expected to cut its dividend as plummeting oil prices hit revenue.
Prices have halved in the past six months, contributing to a 10 per cent slump in Woodside's sales revenue in the final quarter of 2014, to $1.76 billion.
Oil has continued to sink in recent weeks, hitting a five-year-year low on Wednesday.
"In light of the current challenging market conditions which has seen crude oil pricing decrease, Woodside is assessing the impact on near term profitability and cash flows, and revising investment expenditure accordingly," the company said on Thursday.
Australia's largest oil and gas producer plans to provide a further update of that review in February.
Woodside received an average of $US77 a barrel for Brent crude in the December quarter, down 25 per cent from more than $US103 per barrel in the September quarter.
Prices have dropped significantly since then, below $US50 per barrel.
Analysts don't expect the December quarter oil price falls to significantly impact Woodside's 2014 profit, with revenue for the calendar year up more than 22 per cent.
But they say any price recovery is likely to be slow.
Ongoing oil price weakness could lead to impairment charges and job losses, Fat Prophets Resources analyst David Lennox said.
"Woodside's full year result will be impacted positively on volumes but revenue is going to be a challenge," he said.
"If Woodside wants to maintain the same level of dividend it may have to borrow, but I would suggest they just take it on the chin."
RBC Capital Markets analyst Andy Williams said dividends would be affected if revenue declines.
"If the oil price is lower then it's going to impact revenue generation which should translate to less profit and should translate to a lower magnitude of dividend," he said.
JP Morgan researchers estimate Woodside's 2015 dividends could fall sharply, to 64 US cents per share if oil prices stay around $US50 a barrel, from an expected $US2.58 in 2014.
Woodside currently pays 80 per cent of its impairment adjusted profit in dividends.
It expects impairments for full year 2014 to be in the pre-tax range of $250 to $400 million.
Production in 2014 was a record 95.1 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe), was up 9.3 per cent from 2013.
Woodside shares were down 47.5 cents at $35.065 at 1500 AEDT.
– Thu, Jan 15, 2015 3:04 PM AEDT
Woodside Petroleum will slash spending and is expected to cut its dividend as plummeting oil prices hit revenue.
Prices have halved in the past six months, contributing to a 10 per cent slump in Woodside's sales revenue in the final quarter of 2014, to $1.76 billion.
Oil has continued to sink in recent weeks, hitting a five-year-year low on Wednesday.
"In light of the current challenging market conditions which has seen crude oil pricing decrease, Woodside is assessing the impact on near term profitability and cash flows, and revising investment expenditure accordingly," the company said on Thursday.
Australia's largest oil and gas producer plans to provide a further update of that review in February.
Woodside received an average of $US77 a barrel for Brent crude in the December quarter, down 25 per cent from more than $US103 per barrel in the September quarter.
Prices have dropped significantly since then, below $US50 per barrel.
Analysts don't expect the December quarter oil price falls to significantly impact Woodside's 2014 profit, with revenue for the calendar year up more than 22 per cent.
But they say any price recovery is likely to be slow.
Ongoing oil price weakness could lead to impairment charges and job losses, Fat Prophets Resources analyst David Lennox said.
"Woodside's full year result will be impacted positively on volumes but revenue is going to be a challenge," he said.
"If Woodside wants to maintain the same level of dividend it may have to borrow, but I would suggest they just take it on the chin."
RBC Capital Markets analyst Andy Williams said dividends would be affected if revenue declines.
"If the oil price is lower then it's going to impact revenue generation which should translate to less profit and should translate to a lower magnitude of dividend," he said.
JP Morgan researchers estimate Woodside's 2015 dividends could fall sharply, to 64 US cents per share if oil prices stay around $US50 a barrel, from an expected $US2.58 in 2014.
Woodside currently pays 80 per cent of its impairment adjusted profit in dividends.
It expects impairments for full year 2014 to be in the pre-tax range of $250 to $400 million.
Production in 2014 was a record 95.1 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe), was up 9.3 per cent from 2013.
Woodside shares were down 47.5 cents at $35.065 at 1500 AEDT.
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Woodside forks out USD 2.75bn for Apache assets
Posted on Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:25
Woodside Petroleum has agreed to purchase equity interests in two liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects for USD 2.75 billion in a bid to meet burgeoning demand for the fuel from Asia.
The assets are a 13.0 per cent stake in the Wheatstone LNG and Balnaves oil field in Australia and the Kitimat LNG development in Canada, both of which are under construction or consideration.
As well as the USD 2.75 billion price tag, Woodside has agreed to reimburse around USD 1.00 billion in costs incurred on Wheatstone’s construction by the time the deal closes early next year.
Apache chairman and chief executive Steven Farris said proceeds from the sale may be used to repay debt, buy back stock or “pursue other opportunities that enhance our asset base and drive profitable production growth”.
Upon completion of the transaction, the Texan group will continue to hold upstream acreage offshore Western Australia in the Carnarvon, Exmouth and Canning basins and retain its 49.0 per cent stake in Yara Holdings Nitrates and 10.0 per cent in the related ammonium nitrate plant.
Woodside has been on the hunt for acquisitions since plans to buy back USD 2.70 billion-worth of shares from Shell were scuppered when stockholders blocked the move.
Meanwhile, Apache is coming under pressure from activist investor Jana Partners to rein in spending and concentrate on the US.
The hedge fund has amassed a stake worth more than USD 1.00 billion in the oil and gas giant and is pushing for a sale of international assets, including the Australian and Canadian projects, to free up cash for drilling exclusively in its home country.
Jana gave Apache a stark choice: either take measures to increase its value or consider putting itself on the block.
The Houston-headquartered energy player has already taken steps to return value to shareholders, offloading assets in Egypt, Argentina and Canada.
© Zephus Ltd
Posted on Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:25
Woodside Petroleum has agreed to purchase equity interests in two liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects for USD 2.75 billion in a bid to meet burgeoning demand for the fuel from Asia.
The assets are a 13.0 per cent stake in the Wheatstone LNG and Balnaves oil field in Australia and the Kitimat LNG development in Canada, both of which are under construction or consideration.
As well as the USD 2.75 billion price tag, Woodside has agreed to reimburse around USD 1.00 billion in costs incurred on Wheatstone’s construction by the time the deal closes early next year.
Apache chairman and chief executive Steven Farris said proceeds from the sale may be used to repay debt, buy back stock or “pursue other opportunities that enhance our asset base and drive profitable production growth”.
Upon completion of the transaction, the Texan group will continue to hold upstream acreage offshore Western Australia in the Carnarvon, Exmouth and Canning basins and retain its 49.0 per cent stake in Yara Holdings Nitrates and 10.0 per cent in the related ammonium nitrate plant.
Woodside has been on the hunt for acquisitions since plans to buy back USD 2.70 billion-worth of shares from Shell were scuppered when stockholders blocked the move.
Meanwhile, Apache is coming under pressure from activist investor Jana Partners to rein in spending and concentrate on the US.
The hedge fund has amassed a stake worth more than USD 1.00 billion in the oil and gas giant and is pushing for a sale of international assets, including the Australian and Canadian projects, to free up cash for drilling exclusively in its home country.
Jana gave Apache a stark choice: either take measures to increase its value or consider putting itself on the block.
The Houston-headquartered energy player has already taken steps to return value to shareholders, offloading assets in Egypt, Argentina and Canada.
© Zephus Ltd
der Ölpreis ist schuld
Infolge des starken Ölpreisrückgangs ist auch und vor allem der Kurs von Woodside unter die Räder gekommen.Der Kurs hat die 24€ mittlerweile unterschritten - auf Basis der zu erwartenden Gewinnrückgänge nicht ganz unbegründet.
Vor diesem Hintergrund sollte man ein Investment abwägen:
Findet der Ölpreis sein altes Niveau zeitnah wieder?
Oder dauert es Jahre?
Meine persönliche Einschätzung ist, dass es zwar mittelfristig mit dem Ölpreis wieder den Norden geht, aber vermutlich nicht so schnell wie es ein Großteil der Marktteilnehmer im Moment annimmt.
Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 48.071.518 von 1435905 am 17.10.14 22:42:32Starke Zahlen die mich in meiner Entscheidung bekräftigen, hier nochmal aufzustocken.
Die erhofften 25€ wurden bislang leider nicht erreicht, aber eine Dividendenrendite von knapp 6% beim aktuellen Kurs von 27€ ist wahrlich nicht von schlechten Eltern!
Die erhofften 25€ wurden bislang leider nicht erreicht, aber eine Dividendenrendite von knapp 6% beim aktuellen Kurs von 27€ ist wahrlich nicht von schlechten Eltern!
Woodside Petroleum Q3 Sales Revenue Up 46%, Again Lifts Production Outlook
Australian oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WOPEF.PK, WOPEY.PK, WPL.AX) on Thursday reported a 46 percent surge in sales revenue for the third quarter from last year, helped by higher production and sales volumes. Buoyed by the results, the company once again raised its production outlook for 2014.
The company's sales revenue for the third quarter grew 46 percent to $1.96 billion from $1.34 billion in the year-ago period, primarily due to additional oil volumes sold from the floating production and storage offloading vessel or FPSO at its Vincent oil field off the coast of Western Australia, and higher realized prices for Pluto LNG volumes sold.
Production volume for the quarter increased 15.1 percent to 25.2 million barrels of oil equivalent or MMboe from 21.9 MMboe in the year-ago period, while sales volume grew 17.2 percent to 24.5 Mmboe.
The increase in production and sales volume reflect higher LNG reliability at NWS and Pluto as well as the re-start of the Vincent FPSO in late 2013.
Looking ahead, Woodside Petroleum once again raised its production target for 2014 to a range of 93 Mmboe to 95 Mmboe from the prior range of 89 MMboe to 94 MMboe, citing its continued strong operating performance across all assets.
On the Australian stock exchange, Woodside Petroleum shares are currently trading at A$39.11, up A$0.11 or 0.28 on a volume of 1.81 million shares.
Quelle: dpa-AFX
Australian oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WOPEF.PK, WOPEY.PK, WPL.AX) on Thursday reported a 46 percent surge in sales revenue for the third quarter from last year, helped by higher production and sales volumes. Buoyed by the results, the company once again raised its production outlook for 2014.
The company's sales revenue for the third quarter grew 46 percent to $1.96 billion from $1.34 billion in the year-ago period, primarily due to additional oil volumes sold from the floating production and storage offloading vessel or FPSO at its Vincent oil field off the coast of Western Australia, and higher realized prices for Pluto LNG volumes sold.
Production volume for the quarter increased 15.1 percent to 25.2 million barrels of oil equivalent or MMboe from 21.9 MMboe in the year-ago period, while sales volume grew 17.2 percent to 24.5 Mmboe.
The increase in production and sales volume reflect higher LNG reliability at NWS and Pluto as well as the re-start of the Vincent FPSO in late 2013.
Looking ahead, Woodside Petroleum once again raised its production target for 2014 to a range of 93 Mmboe to 95 Mmboe from the prior range of 89 MMboe to 94 MMboe, citing its continued strong operating performance across all assets.
On the Australian stock exchange, Woodside Petroleum shares are currently trading at A$39.11, up A$0.11 or 0.28 on a volume of 1.81 million shares.
Quelle: dpa-AFX
Kräftige Erhöhung der Dividende:
Woodside Petroleum erzielt im ersten Halbjahr Rekordgewinn von 1,1 Mrd. USD
Steigende Preise und ein höherer Absatz haben der australischen Woodside Petroleum (WKN 855377) im ersten Halbjahr 2014 zu einem Rekordgewinn verholfen.
Der Öl- und Gasproduzent erzielte in den sechs Monaten bis Ende Juni einen Nettogewinn von 1.105 Mrd. USD, was einen Anstieg von 26,6% im Vergleich zum Vorjahreszeitraum bedeutet und die Erwartungen der Analysten erfüllt. Den Umsatz der ersten Jahreshälfte bezifferte Woodside mit 3,551 Mrd. USD, das sind 24,3% mehr als im Vorjahr.
Der Konzern kündigte zudem an, am 24. September allen zum 29. August registrierten Aktionären eine Dividende von 1,11 USD zu zahlen.
Anfang August allerdings musste Woodside eine peinliche Niederlage einstecken, als die Aktionäre das geplante Aktienrückkaufprogramm des Konzerns, das einen Wert von 2,68 Mrd. Dollar haben sollte, ablehnten. Nur 72% der Aktionäre stimmten für die Maßnahme, 75% Zustimmung aber wurden benötigt.
Im Juli hatte Woodside Petroleum seine Produktionsprognose für das Gesamtjahr angehoben, nachdem ein starker Anstieg bei Produktion und Umsatz für das zweite Quartal gemeldet werden konnte.
Woodside Petroleum erzielt im ersten Halbjahr Rekordgewinn von 1,1 Mrd. USD
Steigende Preise und ein höherer Absatz haben der australischen Woodside Petroleum (WKN 855377) im ersten Halbjahr 2014 zu einem Rekordgewinn verholfen.
Der Öl- und Gasproduzent erzielte in den sechs Monaten bis Ende Juni einen Nettogewinn von 1.105 Mrd. USD, was einen Anstieg von 26,6% im Vergleich zum Vorjahreszeitraum bedeutet und die Erwartungen der Analysten erfüllt. Den Umsatz der ersten Jahreshälfte bezifferte Woodside mit 3,551 Mrd. USD, das sind 24,3% mehr als im Vorjahr.
Der Konzern kündigte zudem an, am 24. September allen zum 29. August registrierten Aktionären eine Dividende von 1,11 USD zu zahlen.
Anfang August allerdings musste Woodside eine peinliche Niederlage einstecken, als die Aktionäre das geplante Aktienrückkaufprogramm des Konzerns, das einen Wert von 2,68 Mrd. Dollar haben sollte, ablehnten. Nur 72% der Aktionäre stimmten für die Maßnahme, 75% Zustimmung aber wurden benötigt.
Im Juli hatte Woodside Petroleum seine Produktionsprognose für das Gesamtjahr angehoben, nachdem ein starker Anstieg bei Produktion und Umsatz für das zweite Quartal gemeldet werden konnte.
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