Eni Trims Production Forecast After Massive Loss
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published July 30, 2020 | 03:45 PM
Italian oil and gas firm Eni cut its annual production forecast on Thursday for the third time this year after recording a steep quarterly net loss as crude prices plunged due to the coronavirus pandemic
Milan, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 30th Jul, 2020 ) :Italian oil and gas firm Eni cut its annual production forecast on Thursday for the third time this year after recording a steep quarterly net loss as crude prices plunged due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Eni said its now expects production of 1.71 to 1.76 million barrels per day in 2020, down from an earlier forecast of 1.75 to 1.80 million barrels per day, and well below its 1.87 million barrels per day in 2019.
Its shares fell 2.1 percent to 8.235 Euros in morning trade on the Milan Stock Exchange.
Eni posted a second-quarter loss of 4.4 billion euros ($5.17 billion), due to huge asset writedowns, compared to year-ago profit of 424 million euros.
Analysts had been expecting a loss of 4.8 billion euros, according to a consensus forecast by financial information provider Factset Estimates.
For the first half of 2020, Eni posted a loss of 7.
3 billion euros.
Second-quarter production fell by 6.6 percent to 1.71 million barrels per day, it said, slightly above the expected 1.68 million barrels per day.
Eni predicted that number to rise to around 2 million in 2023 to reach a peak in 2025 of 2.05 to 2.10 million barrels per day.
The company said it would cut capital expenditures by 35 percent this year and 30 percent in 2021, mostly due to reduced exploration and production.
Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi called the second quarter "one of the most challenging quarters the oil and gas industry has faced in its history.""While actions taken by OPEC have allowed the market to reach some stability, emerging from the pandemic will be difficult, with signs of great uncertainty still to come," he said in a release.
Dividends would not be set, he said, but instead "depend on the scenario and the industrial development of the group".
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