Operating Margins: UPSTREAM: +$3.1B; DOWNSTREAM: -$153M Total operating margin3 was about $2.9 billion, compared with $3.2 billion in the previous quarter. Upstream operating margin4 was approximately $3.1 billion, up from $2.6 billion in the first quarter. The company had a downstream operating margin4 shortfall of $153 million in the second quarter, compared with an operating margin of $560 million in the previous quarter as the Lloydminster Upgrader underwent a major planned turnaround. The turnaround was impacted by weather-related delays which resulted in additional costs due to lost productivity. The turnaround is now complete and the Upgrader has ramped up to full rates. Downstream operating margin was further impacted by narrower light-heavy crude oil differentials in addition to planned and unplanned outages. In the second quarter, operating margin in U.S. Refining benefited from approximately $80 million of first in, first out (FIFO) gains.
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