Q1 2025 TotalEnergies SE Earnings Call Transcript

Apr 30, 2025 / 11:00AM GMT

Key Points

Positve
  • TotalEnergies SE (TTE) reported robust year-on-year production growth with nearly 4% in Oil & Gas and 18% in Electricity, contributing to a unique production growth of close to 5%.
  • The company maintained low operating costs, with OpEx per barrel remaining below $5, despite inflationary trends.
  • TotalEnergies SE (TTE) announced a 7.6% increase in the first interim dividend to EUR0.85 per share, reflecting confidence in its business model.
  • The company executed $2 billion in share buybacks during the first quarter, continuing its strong track record of attractive shareholder distribution.
  • TotalEnergies SE (TTE) reported adjusted net income of $4.2 billion and FFO of $7 billion for the first quarter, with a return on capital employed at 13.2%.
Negative
  • The global environment remains challenging with heightened macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties, including the Ukrainian-Russian conflict and new US tariff policies.
  • Oil market volatility and downside orientation have created uncertainties in oil demand and costs for new projects in the US.
  • The downstream segment faced weak refining margins and declining petrochemical and biofuel margins in Europe, impacting cash flow by about $150 million.
  • Operational issues at Donges and Productive refineries negatively impacted cash flow by about $200 million.
  • The integrated LNG segment saw a 10% quarter-to-quarter decline in adjusted net operating income, impacted by the timing effect of dividend payments from equity affiliates.
Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to TotalEnergies' first-quarter 2025 results conference call. (Operator Instructions) I must advise you that this conference is being recorded today, the 30th of April 2025.

I'll now hand over to Patrick Pouyanne, Chairman and CEO; and Jean-Pierre Sbraire, CFO, who will lead you through this call.

Patrick Pouyanne
TotalEnergies SE - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Executive Committee

Good afternoon, everybody, or good morning for connecting from the US.

Before Jean-Pierre will go through the details of the first quarter results, I would like just to make some few opening remarks on what appears to be today a more challenging global environment and the way that TotalEnergies intends to leverage our consistent strategy to deliver resilient results benefiting from our energy production growth and attractive shareholder returns.

We have indeed entered into a period of heightened macroeconomics and geopolitical uncertainty. We and this list is not exhaustive, current fragile

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