TNK-BP said net income jumped 55 percent to a record $9 billion last year on oil price and output gains.
Profit in the fourth quarter increased 12 percent to $2.17 billion from $1.93 billion in the same period a year earlier, the company said Wednesday. Revenue in the last three months of 2011 rose to $15.7 billion from $12.5 billion.
TNK-BP said output of oil and natural gas in the period climbed to 2.04 million barrels a day of oil equivalent from 1.96 million a year earlier, including its share of Slavneft and projects in Vietnam and Venezuela. Net debt stood at $6.74 billion at the end of 2011, up $4.68 billion a year earlier.
(Bloomberg)
