3rd quarter 2022 results

Torgrim Reitan

Chief Financial Officer

28th October 2022

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Third Quarter 2022

  • Continued strong earnings and cash flow from operations after tax of ~ USD 7.5 billion1
  • Solid operational performance
    • High gas production from NCS supporting European energy security
    • Peregrino restarted and Peregrino Phase 2 onstream
  • Delivering on our key strategic priorities
    • Construction of first solar plant in Poland completed
    • First commercial agreement on CO2 storage for Northern Lights JV
    • Project portfolio in execution is maintaining stable cost level
  • Additional tax payment2 of ~USD 10 billion
  • Step up in capital distribution
    • Cash dividend of USD 0.20 per share for 3Q 2022
    • Increasing extraordinary cash dividend from USD 0.50 per share to USD 0.70 per share for 3Q 2022
    • USD 6 billion share buy-back programme
      • Fourth tranche of share buy-back of USD 1.83 billion
  1. Excludes changes in working capital
  2. In addition to one NCS tax instalment of ~USD 7 billion paid 1 August

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Safety: performance indicators

Serious Incident Frequency (SIF)

Serious incidents and near-misses per million hours worked. 12-month average.

Total Recordable Injury Frequency (TRIF)

Personal injuries requiring medical treatment per million hours worked 12-months average.

Oil and gas leakages

Number of leakages with rate above 0.1 kg/second during the past 12 months.

1,2

1,1

0,9

0,7

0,6

0,6

0,7

0,6

0,5

0,5

0,5

0,4

0.4

4,2

4,4

3,8

19

19

21

3,8

18

3,0

2,7

2,8

2,8

15

13

15

2,7

2,5

2,3

2,4

2,4

12

11

12

10

8

8

2010 2011

2012

2013 2014 2015 2016

2017

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

2010 2011

2012

2013 2014 2015 2016

2017

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

2010 2011

2012

2013 2014 2015 2016

2017

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

per Q3

per Q3

per Q3

Footnote SIF: The number of work-related injuries (WRI) have been excluded from the SIF results. This will be followed up as a separate parameter by the company's business areas. The SIF trend has been adjusted for this change.

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3 Q 2 0 2 2

Equity production

Oil and gas

  • High gas production from NCS to Europe
  • Operational performance and production impacted by turnarounds
  • Stable production after start up from Snøhvit and Peregrino

Oil and gas production

mboe/d

1 996

2 021

1 996

2 021

328

329

948

1 009

322

324

1 048

1 012

1 345

1 368

3Q 2021

3Q 2022

3Q 2021

3Q 2022

Power

  • Offshore wind slightly lower production than 3Q 2021 due to lower wind and maintenance activity
  • Hywind Tampen production start up 4Q 2022
  • First solar plant in Poland is completed1
  • Generating one month of gas-to-power from Triton Power

Power generation

GWh

197

304 294

3Q 2021

3Q 2022

Renewables

Gas-to-power

1. Developed and operated by Wento (Equinor 100% subsidiary)

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Financial results

  • Strong earnings
  • High realised prices
    • Liquids up ~34% to 93 USD/bbl
    • European gas up ~240% to 44 USD/mmbtu
    • North American gas up ~124% to 7.2 USD/mmbtu
  • Upstream cost increased mainly due to
    inflation, higher energy costs and CO2 prices, partly offset by currency effects
  • Net impairment reversals USD 1.1 billion
  • Adjusted tax rate of 72.4%

3Q 2022

9,371

26,103

(1,802)

24,301

(17,585)

6,715

Million USD

3Q 2021

1,409

9,567

204

9,771

(6,994)

2,777

Million USD

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