Income Taxes |
6 Months Ended |
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Jun. 30, 2025 | |
| Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] | |
| Income Taxes | Income Taxes The income tax expense decreased $1.0 billion between quarterly periods from $2.6 billion in 2024 to $1.6 billion in 2025. The company’s income before income tax expense decreased $2.9 billion from $7.0 billion in 2024 to $4.1 billion in 2025, primarily due to lower upstream realizations, lower equity affiliate earnings at TCO due to higher depreciation, depletion and amortization, and an unfavorable fair market valuation adjustment for Hess Corporation (Hess) common stock. The company’s effective tax rate increased between quarterly periods from 37 percent in 2024 to 39 percent in 2025. The change in effective tax rate was primarily due to current period unfavorable tax items and mix effects, resulting from the absolute level of earnings or losses and whether they arose in higher or lower tax rate jurisdictions. The income tax expense decreased $1.3 billion between the six-month periods from $5.0 billion in 2024 to $3.7 billion in 2025. The company’s income before income tax decreased $5.2 billion from $15.0 billion in 2024 to $9.7 billion in 2025, primarily due to lower upstream realizations, lower equity affiliate earnings at TCO due to higher depreciation, depletion and amortization, unfavorable foreign exchange impacts and lower earnings due to asset sales. The company’s effective tax rate increased between six-month periods from 33 percent in 2024 to 38 percent in 2025. The change in effective tax rate was primarily due to current period unfavorable tax items and mix effects, resulting from the absolute level of earnings or losses and whether they arose in higher or lower tax rate jurisdictions. The company engages in ongoing discussions with tax authorities regarding the resolution of tax matters in various jurisdictions. Both the outcome of these tax matters and the timing of resolution and/or closure of the tax audits are highly uncertain. Given the number of years that still remain subject to examination and the number of matters being examined in the various tax jurisdictions, the company is unable to estimate the range of possible adjustments to the balance of unrecognized tax benefits.
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