Retail site in Houston, USA (photo)

In this publication Downstream includes Oil Products and Chemicals.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Refinery availability of 91% and chemical plant availability of 94%;
  • Disposal completed of two French refineries and the Berre-l’Etang refining and petrochemicals plant in France;
  • Construction progress on the 325,000 b/d expansion of the Motiva Port Arthur refinery in the USA (Shell interest 50%);
  • Construction of the new world-scale ethylene cracker and mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) plant in Singapore (Shell interest 100%).
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FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

 

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

[A]

Excludes working capital movements.

[B]

Chemicals are reported on CCS basis from 2005.

CCS earnings ($ million)

 

 

 

 

 

Oil Products

5,155

6,951

7,027

7,532

6,592

Chemicals

156

1,682

1,095

782

1,148

Total

5,311

8,633

8,122

8,314

7,740

Estimated CCS adjustment ($ million)

 

 

 

 

 

Oil Products

4,709

(3,488)

(98)

(2,450)

(1,005)

Chemicals

561

(369)

31

(209)

[B]

Total

5,270

(3,857)

(67)

(2,659)

(1,005)

Segment earnings ($ million)

 

 

 

 

 

Oil Products

446

10,439

7,125

9,982

7,597

Chemicals

(405)

2,051

1,064

991

1,148

Total

41

12,490

8,189

10,973

8,745

Downstream net cash
from operating activities [A] ($ million)

1,737

13,185

9,048

14,601

11,993

Total Oil products sales (thousand b/d)

6,568

6,625

6,485

7,057

7,600

Chemicals sales volumes (thousand tonnes)

20,327

22,555

23,137

22,826

24,160

Refinery intake (thousand b/d)

3,388

3,779

3,862

3,981

4,162

Oil products refinery availability (%)

91

91

92

92

84

Chemicals manufacturing plant availability (%)

94

93

90

93

92

Downstream capital investment ($ million)

6,014

5,275

4,334

3,443

3,691

Downstream capital employed ($ million)

54,075

65,086

50,714

42,784

44,562

Downstream employees (thousands)

64

69

73

79

86

CCS EARNINGS [A]
$ billion
CCS earnings ($ billion) – development for Oil Products and Chemicals, five quarters from Q4 2007 to Q4 2008 (bar chart)

[A] Excluding identified items.
AVAILABILITY AND SALES VOLUMES
%                                                                          volume
Availability and sales volumes (% and volume) – development of Refinery availability, Chemical plant availability, Oil Products sales (million b/d) and Chemical sales (million tonnes), five quarters from Q4 2007 to Q4 2008 (bar chart)