Why ConocoPhillips Expects Lower Production for 1Q18
For 1Q18, ConocoPhillips (COP) expects total production in a range of 1,180–1,220 Mboepd (thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day). On a year-over-year basis, the midpoint of ConocoPhillips’s 1Q18 production guidance range is ~24% lower than its 1Q17 production of 1,584 Mboepd. Even sequentially, ConocoPhillips’s 1Q18 production guidance is ~2% lower, compared with 4Q17 production of 1219 Mboepd. ConocoPhillips’s 1Q18 production guidance excludes production from Libya.