Saudi Aramco Posts Record $161 Billion Profit for 2022

Oil prices that hit $100 a barrel lifted the kingdom’s national oil company

Aramco said its annual profit rose by 46% last year, the latest oil major to report a record annual profit for the year.Photo: Tasneem Alsultan/Bloomberg News

Saudi Arabia’s national oil company reported record annual profit of $161 billion for 2022, the largest ever by an energy firm, continuing a dramatic turnaround for the industry after the Ukraine war lifted crude prices and upended commodity flows.

Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Aramco, said its yearly profit swelled by 46% in 2022, a period when Saudi Arabia, the de facto leader of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, rebuffed U.S. requests to pump more oil to help tame surging crude prices.

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