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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $233.16 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $12.76B 20% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $90.47B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Conflict-driven tightness persists, Hess and Permian volume compounds at the top of the 2-3% band, and the cost programme keeps overdelivering: $3B of structural savings landed six months early and Hess synergies came in 50% above target inside a year. Management's own bull framing is the 2030 objective of greater than 10% average annual adjusted free cash flow growth at flat prices below today's, which makes it a volume-and-cost claim rather than a price claim. The +0.7% delta plus an 8.0x exit gets there.

International Upstream

Basis quarter$13.54B
Final quarter$12.76B
Implied CAGR−1%
Final revenue mix20%

Tengiz, Guyana's Stabroek block through legacy Hess, Australian LNG, West Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Partitioned Zone. Volume is disclosed quarterly, and the revenue line also carries large equity-affiliate income - $1,303M from TCO and others in the basis quarter - that a pure wellhead price times volume driver would miss entirely.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $10.36B Reported
2025 Q4 $9.94B Estimated
2026 Q1 $7.84B Reported
2026 Q2 $13.54B Reported
Crude oil and NGL liftingsLNG and pipeline gasEquity affiliate income (TCO and others)
Units 181363000/qtr growing +0.6% per quarter 181.4M boe in 2026 Q2: 1,993 MBOED across 91 days, with Partitioned Zone curtailment already in it.
Price per unit $75 drifting −8.5% per quarter $74.63 per boe on a $104 Brent quarter, TCO equity income included; assumed to revert toward $55.
International Upstream

Latest: $12.76B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q1 $9.30B
2024Q2 $8.34B
2024Q3 $9.67B
2024Q4 $12.00B
2025Q1 $8.95B
2025Q2 $7.30B
2025Q3 $10.36B
2025Q4 $9.94B
2026Q1 $7.84B
2026Q2 $13.54B
2026Q3E $12.55B
2026Q4E $11.91B
2027Q1E $11.50B
2027Q2E $11.24B
2027Q3E $11.10B
2027Q4E $11.03B
2028Q1E $11.03B
2028Q2E $11.06B
2028Q3E $11.13B
2028Q4E $11.22B
2029Q1E $11.33B
2029Q2E $11.46B
2029Q3E $11.60B
2029Q4E $11.74B
2030Q1E $11.90B
2030Q2E $12.06B
2030Q3E $12.23B
2030Q4E $12.40B
2031Q1E $12.58B
2031Q2E $12.76B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Partitioned Zone volumes were curtailed in the basis quarter by the Middle East conflict, so the 1,993 MBOED starting point is a constrained number rather than a capacity number.
  • The $74.63 per boe basis price sits far above the $47-60 range of the eight preceding quarters because Brent averaged $104. The driver glides it back to about $55 by 2031, which is an assumed mid-cycle level, not a disclosed forecast.
  • The Iraq heads of agreement covering West Qurna 2 and Nasiriyah is pre-FID and carries no modelled volume, and no Venezuela barrel is added because those volumes are outside reported production.
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