Profits rise for Total
April 29 (LNGJ) - French oil and gas company Total, which this week declared “force majeure” on the Mozambique LNG project over the security situation in the northern Cabo Delgado province, posted a 51 percent increase in first-quarter adjusted net operating income to $3.48 billion compared with $2.3Bln in the same three months of 2020. Total’s LNG sales rose 1 percent to 9.9 million tonnes versus 9.8MT in the prior-year quarter.
“Despite hydrocarbon production for LNG in the first quarter of 2021, down 6 percent year-on-year, mainly due to the shutdown of the Snøhvit LNG plant (Norway) following a fire at the end of September 2020, LNG sales were stable in the first quarter,” said Total. The company added that its average realised LNG price in the quarter was $6.08 per million British thermal units, higher than the previous quarter’s $4.90 per MMBtu, though about 4 percent lower than the year-on-year price of $6.32 per MMBtu.
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