The fuel supplier has more than doubled its interim dividend after a big improvement in profitability at its only oil refinery propelled profits higher.
A huge turnaround in the margin for processing crude oil into petrol and diesel fuelled a more-than-doubling in first-half benchmark profit for Ampol to a record for a half year.Replacement cost operating profit, the figure most closely watched by the market, surged to $471 million in the six months ended June 30, excluding one-time items, from $187.3 million.
Bottom-line net income, which includes the effect of changing prices for oil and fuel products on the value of inventories, rocketed to $695.9 million, from $325.5 million. Chief executive Matt Halliday said the result, the strongest for a six-month period in the company’s history, “demonstrates the benefits of Ampol’s integrated supply chain”., soared almost 10-fold to $443.9 million, from $49.3 million. The plantThat drove up EBIT for the whole fuels and infrastructure division to $616.8 million, from $183.6 million.
But in convenience retail, EBIT fell, to $127.3 million from $149.4 million, with Ampol citing the combined effects of omicron, floods and higher retail fuel prices, which reduced demand and squeezed margins. writes on the resources industry with a focus on energy, including gas, oil, electricity and renewables.
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