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CLAIM #64230 · Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM) · 2025Q1 earnings call · May 2, 2025 · due Dec 31, 2027

with firm plans to improve them to $35 per barrel by 2027 and $30 per barrel by 2030.

Darren Woods · CEO

PENDING
graded after results covering Dec 31, 2027 are reported

How to check this claim

Look at: Company-disclosed cost of supply / break-even oil price per barrel

It came true if: Break-even <= $35 per barrel by year-end 2027

Where: Management commentary / investor day disclosures (earnings call, Corporate Plan update)

In context

of structural cost savings. To further high grade our portfolio, we sold $1.8 billion of assets in the quarter, driven by divestments in the upstream. We've also completed the $5 billion of incremental divestments we laid out at the Corporate Plan update in December, and we'll continue to actively manage our portfolio and evaluate opportunities to further high grade where it makes sense. Since 2019, we've sold $24 billion of non-core assets, strategically reshaping our portfolio and growing earnings power. Taken together, the strategic choices and investments we've made since 2019 have strengthened our quarterly earnings power by $4 billion at current prices and margins. Our ongoing transformation to become a more efficient company with a lower cost of supply is driving lower break evens with firm plans to improve them to $35 per barrel by 2027 and $30 per barrel by 2030. Importantly, we're lowering break evens the right way by growing earnings power and cash flow, not slashing capital investments which are the foundation for value growth in our business. Prudently investing in advantaged opportunities across price cycles was key to doubling earnings since 2019 and is critically important to growing cash flow $30 billion by 2030. Our ability to successfully deliver large-scale attractive investments at or below cost and often ahead of schedule positions us well in difficult market conditions. We are seeing that in China where we recently commenced operations at our world scale chemical plant. This is one of the largest, most complex projects we've ever done and we delivered it ahead of schedule and under budget. We will competitively supply high value chem

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SEC filings for XOM · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2025Q1 earnings call.