Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) today announced its financial and operating results for the second quarter of 2016, including a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $692 million, or $1.36 per share (diluted). The net loss includes certain items typically excluded by the investment community in published estimates, which in the aggregate decreased net income by $388 million or $0.76 per share (diluted) on an after-tax basis. Cash flow from operating activities in the second quarter of 2016 was $1.229 billion. Discretionary cash flow from operations totaled $669 million.
‘Our portfolio continues to perform exceptionally well, and we’ve continued to significantly reduce our cost structure throughout the year,’ said Al Walker, Anadarko Chairman, President and CEO. ‘As a result of the record sales volumes from our Lucius and Caesar/Tonga fields in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the improving well performance in the Delaware and DJ basins, we are increasing the midpoint of our full-year divestiture-adjusted sales-volume guidance by 2 million BOE (barrels of oil equivalent).
Additionally, we’ve been very successful monetizing assets through the first six months of this year and have increased the high end of our target range to $3.5 billion in total proceeds expected by year end. As stated previously, we intend to use sales proceeds to retire debt, including the remaining $750 million of 2017 maturities. In addition, should the commodity-price outlook continue to improve, we will evaluate redeploying some of the additional cash generated via operations and asset sales toward our highest-quality U.S. onshore opportunities.’
Anadarko ended the second quarter with approximately $1.4 billion of cash on hand. Year to date, Anadarko has generated approximately $2.5 billion in monetizations, including proceeds received during the second quarter from the secondary offering of Western Gas Equity Partners (NYSE: WGP) common units and divestitures of the company’s Wamsutter and non-core Permian assets.