Company Outlook Chevron’s Strategies, Financial Priorities and Growth Outlook

At their annual analyst meeting in New York, Chevron’s executives reaffirmed the company’s strategies and expressed confidence in the long-term energy business and gave insight into their growth outlook.

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New York/USA — At Chevron’s annual security analyst meeting, the company’s executives expressed confidence in the long-term energy business and highlighted its growth outlook through 2017. At the same time, company executives outlined near-term actions to address the recent decline in commodity prices.

“The fundamentals of the oil and gas business remain attractive for our company and investors, as our products are vital to a growing world economy,” said John Watson, Chevron’s chairman and CEO. “We are well-positioned to manage through the recent drop in commodity prices and are taking several responsive actions, including curtailing capital spending and lowering costs. Over the next few years, we expect to deliver significant cash flow growth as projects currently under construction come online. Our intention is to demonstrate performance that will allow our 27-year history of successive increases in our annual dividend payout to continue,” Watson added.

George Kirkland, Vice Chairman of the Board, commented: “This was the fifth consecutive year we have led the integrated peer group on earnings per barrel. Our base business is performing exceptionally well and is profitable, even in a lower-price environment. Our large, diverse resource base allows us to be very responsive to market conditions, with flexibility to select only the most attractive opportunities to move forward.”

Jay Johnson, senior vice president, upstream, provided an overview of the specific actions being taken to manage capital outlays, lower costs and improve operating efficiencies, all of which will contribute to improving upstream cash flow. He also provided a comprehensive update on Chevron’s deep queue of projects and other future investment opportunities, emphasizing their strong cash and value generation potential.

“We continue to make steady progress on our LNG and deepwater developments, and will continue to ramp-up production from our shale and tight assets, particularly from our very attractive Permian Basin acreage position,” Johnson said. “We expect to achieve 20 percent production growth by 2017, a rate which is simply unmatched by our industry peers. More importantly, our new production is expected to have considerably higher margins than in our existing portfolio.”

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