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Consolidated fair value $171.03 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $6.19B 7% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $14.37B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The only asset-level economics disclosed this quarter, applied to the Upstream vertical alone. Co-venturers have invested more than $55B since 2014 and recovered it about two years ahead of the investment basis, generating more than $13B of incremental revenue and cost savings; the first four FPSOs run roughly 100 kbd above their original basis at about 98% reliability, the fifth sailed in June for 4Q26 startup with 250 kbd of capacity, and the company expects its share of Guyana free cash flow to more than double between 2025 and 2030. What this case does not achieve is the rest of the plan: Chemical and Specialty tonnage, the refining margin and the cost-savings target are all left exactly where the base case puts them, and the ~100 kbd entitlement step still lands in the first projected quarter.

Chemical Products

Basis quarter$7.05B
Final quarter$6.19B
Implied CAGR−3%
Final revenue mix7%

Steam crackers turn advantaged North American feedstock into polyethylene and other commodity petrochemicals. Sales tonnage is disclosed every quarter and the North American polyethylene marker is disclosed alongside it, so volume times revenue per tonne is both the reported shape and the one the disclosed sensitivities move.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $5.93B Reported
2025 Q4 $5.54B Estimated
2026 Q1 $5.61B Reported
2026 Q2 $7.05B Reported
Polyethylene and other commodity petrochemicalsPerformance chemicalsProxxima resin systems, pre-scale, with FID taken for a 120 kt/y Louisiana blending expansion
Units 4471000/qtr growing +5.0% per quarter 4,471 kt sold in 2026 Q2, the lowest tonnage in the ten-quarter reconciling window.
Price per unit $1578 drifting −11.0% per quarter $1,577.72 per tonne at a $1,454/T polyethylene marker; reverts toward the $965-1,166 of 2025.
Chemical Products

Latest: $6.19B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q1 $6.11B
2024Q2 $6.03B
2024Q3 $6.10B
2024Q4 $5.44B
2025Q1 $5.57B
2025Q2 $5.84B
2025Q3 $5.93B
2025Q4 $5.54B
2026Q1 $5.61B
2026Q2 $7.05B
2026Q3E $6.59B
2026Q4E $6.26B
2027Q1E $6.03B
2027Q2E $5.87B
2027Q3E $5.77B
2027Q4E $5.71B
2028Q1E $5.68B
2028Q2E $5.68B
2028Q3E $5.69B
2028Q4E $5.71B
2029Q1E $5.74B
2029Q2E $5.78B
2029Q3E $5.82B
2029Q4E $5.87B
2030Q1E $5.92B
2030Q2E $5.97B
2030Q3E $6.02B
2030Q4E $6.07B
2031Q1E $6.13B
2031Q2E $6.19B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • The 4,471 kt of the basis quarter is the lowest tonnage in the ten-quarter window while revenue per tonne of $1,577.72 is the highest, so 2026 Q2 was a margin quarter and not a volume quarter. The 5% first-quarter volume growth recovers toward the 5,325 kt the segment averaged in 2025, not toward a new high.
  • The model's FY2030 tonnage of 22.0 Mt falls short of the ~23.0 Mt 2030 plan. That gap is deliberate: the base case gives the plan's volume trajectory most but not all of the credit, and the bull case is where it lands in full.
  • Terminal margin is set from the reported segment note, not from the disclosed per-tonne unit earnings. Unit earnings of ~$210/T on 21.3 Mt would imply about $4.5B of 2025 Chemical earnings against the $800M the four 2025 quarters actually reported, so the two measures cannot be reconciled here and only the reported one is used.
  • The North American polyethylene marker of $1,454/T in the basis quarter is 92% above 4Q25's $759/T, and the disclosed sensitivity is $560M of annual earnings per $100/T, which is large against what this segment earns in an ordinary year.
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