(business) -- US energy giant ExxonMobil has reported a smaller-than-expected dip in profit for the third quarter on falling production and sales.
Net income for the July-September quarter dropped 7.0% from a year earlier to USDUS9.6 billion, said Exxon Mobil. Revenue fell 7.7% to USD115.7 billion as oil equivalent production declined 7.5% in the quarter, the Irving, Texas-based company said.
ExxonMobil increased capital and exploration spending by 7.0% to USD9.2 billion, the bulk of it outside the United States.
"Third-quarter results reflect our ongoing commitment to help deliver the energy needed to underpin economic recovery and growth while maintaining our strong focus on safety and environmental performance," said chairman Rex Tillerson.
ExxonMobil is an American multinational oil and gas corporation. It is the world's largest company by revenue and one of the largest publicly traded companies by market capitalization in the world. ExxonMobil is the largest of the six oil supermajors with daily production of 3.921 million BOE.
As MRC has reported recently, ExxonMobil reported flaring at its refinery in Joliet, Illinois. The release lasted about 30 minutes, and the unit was shut down. In early October a fire broke out at the conpany's Baytown, Texas refinery to a process unit. The complex has a 584,000 bbl/day refinery and two chemical plants that make butyl rubber and polypropylene (PP), making it the largest operating refinery in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world.
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