Valero Energy reported net income attributable to Valero stockholders of $2.8 billion, or $7.19 per share, for the third quarter of 2022, compared to $463 million, or $1.13 per share, for the third quarter of 2021.
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Excluding the adjustments shown in the accompanying earnings release tables, adjusted net income attributable to Valero stockholders was $2.8 billion, or $7.14 per share, for the third quarter of 2022, compared to $545 million, or $1.33 per share, for the third quarter of 2021.
The Refining segment reported operating income of $3.8 billion for the third quarter of 2022, compared to $835 million for the third quarter of 2021.
Adjusted operating income for the third quarter of 2021 was $911 million.
Refining throughput volumes averaged 3.0 million barrels per day in the third quarter of 2022, which was 141 thousand barrels per day higher than the third quarter of 2021. Refinery utilization rate was 95 percent in the third quarter of 2022, compared to 91 percent in the third quarter of 2021.
The Renewable Diesel segment, which consists of the Diamond Green Diesel (DGD) joint venture, reported $212 million of operating income for the third quarter of 2022, compared to $108 million for the third quarter of 2021.
Renewable diesel sales volumes averaged 2.2 million gallons per day in the third quarter of 2022, which was 1.6 million gallons per day higher than the third quarter of 2021.
The higher sales volumes in the third quarter of 2022 were due to DGD 1 downtime in the third quarter of 2021 resulting from Hurricane Ida and the impact of additional volumes from DGD 2, which started up in the fourth quarter of 2021.
The Ethanol segment reported $1 million of operating income for the third quarter of 2022, compared to a $44 million operating loss for the third quarter of 2021. Adjusted operating income for the third quarter of 2021 was $4 million. Ethanol production volumes averaged 3.5 million gallons per day in the third quarter of 2022.
Net cash provided by operating activities was $2.0 billion in the third quarter of 2022. Included in this amount was a $1.5 billion unfavorable change in working capital and $119 million of net cash provided by operating activities associated with the other joint venture member’s share of DGD, excluding changes in DGD’s working capital. Excluding these items, adjusted net cash provided by operating activities was $3.4 billion in the third quarter of 2022.
Capital investments totaled $602 million in the third quarter of 2022, of which $185 million was for sustaining the business, including costs for turnarounds, catalysts and regulatory compliance.
Excluding capital investments attributable to the other joint venture member’s share of DGD and those related to other variable interest entities, capital investments attributable to Valero were $479 million.
Valero further reduced its debt by $1.25 billion in September. This transaction, combined with a series of debt reduction and refinancing transactions completed since the second half of 2021, have collectively reduced Valero’s debt by approximately $3.6 billion.
Valero ended the third quarter of 2022 with $9.6 billion of total debt, $1.9 billion of finance lease obligations and $4.0 billion of cash and cash equivalents, compared to $13.0 billion of total debt, $1.6 billion of finance lease obligations and $2.3 billion of cash and cash equivalents at the end of the first quarter of 2021.
As a result, the debt to capitalization ratio, net of cash and cash equivalents, was approximately 24 percent as of September 30, 2022, down from the pandemic high of 40 percent as of March 31, 2021. ■