Due to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, oil and natural gas prices have scaled multi-year highs this year as Western sanctions against major exporter Russia squeezed an already under-supplied global market. Margins for making fuels like gasoline and diesel surged worldwide, boosting the profits of oil giants, including Exxon Mobil, Chevron in US, Shell in Europe and Hibiscus Petroleum in Malaysia.

How does high oil price affect the prices of everything? The movement of everything needs transport. For example, everything in your house has to come from somewhere. Your clothes came from China and all the materials for building your house came from many factories located somewhere in the world. That is why high oil price has pushed up prices of everything and affecting everybody in the world.

Brent Crude oil price chart above:

Exxon Mobil:

HOUSTON, July 29 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) on Friday posted its biggest quarterly profit ever on the back of soaring energy prices.

The top U.S. oil producer reported second-quarter net income of $17.9 billion, or $4.21 per share, an almost four-fold increase over the $4.69 billion, or $1.10 per share, it earned in the same period last year.

Chevron:

HOUSTON, April 29 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp (CVX.N) on Friday posted its highest quarterly profit in 10 years as oil and gas prices surged, and said on Friday it was looking to boost investment in natural gas on rising world demand.

Shell:

Shell Plc posted its highest quarterly earnings on record, as the company was buoyed by high oil and gas prices despite taking a $3.9 billion accounting charge on its planned exit from Russia.

Hibiscus Petroleum:

I just Googled “Hibiscus Petroleum oil production chart” and I saw the chart below.

Based on increasing oil production and higher oil price, the company should report better profit for its quarter ending June which should be announced before the end of this month. 

My sole purpose of writing this article is to share my research with you. I am not asking you to buy to support the share price because the daily traded volume is 20-30 million shares. Moreover, I notice that a few big investors like to push the share price down so that they can buy it at cheaper prices. In any case, investors should wait patiently for the company’s profit announcement for the quarter ending June which should be announced before the end of this month.