Santos Energy Group (STO) report a sharp rise in Q3 production and sales allowing the company to re-calibrate its forward guidance to the top end of the range.
For the three months ending September 30, Santos posted a 31% increase in sales volume to 21.3 million barrels of oil while forward production advanced 7% to 15.5 million barrels. Sales volumes are anticipated to hit 81-83 million barrels for the full year.
Overall LNG sales volumes more than doubled to 1.3 million tons as the ramp-up of the company’s cornerstone GLNG project in Queensland accounted for 755,000 tons and shipping 21 cargoes in Q3.