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Equinor

Investor Presentation May 4, 2023

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1st quarter 2023 results

Torgrim Reitan

Chief financial officer

4th May 2023

First Quarter 2023

  • Strong earnings and cash flow across the business
  • Solid operational performance and production growth
    • · Continued high gas production from NCS to Europe
  • High value creation from marketing and trading
  • Maintaining cost and capital discipline
  • Competitive capital distribution
    • Ordinary cash dividend of USD 0.30 per share
    • Extraordinary cash dividend of USD 0.60 per share
    • · Commencement of second tranche of share buy-back of USD 1.67 bn²
    • · Expected total capital distribution in 2023 of USD 17 bn

  1. Will commence on 11 May 2023, subject to authorization from the AGM 10 May 2023

Safety: performance indicators

Serious Incident Frequency (SIF) Serious incidents and near-misses per million hours worked. 12-month average.

Total Recordable Injury Frequency (TRIF)

Personal injuries requiring medical treatment per million hours worked. 12-month average.

Oil and gas leakages

Number of leakages with rate above 0.1 kg/second during the past 12 months.

1Q 2023 Equity production

Oil and gas

  • On track to deliver ~3% production growth in 2023
  • Peregrino and Johan Sverdrup Phase 2 on stream; Snøhvit and Caesar Tonga back in operations
  • Continued high gas production from NCS to Europe
  • Production impacted by turnarounds

Oil and gas production

mboe/d

Power

  • Stable offshore wind production and good availability
  • Hywind Tampen in production
  • Strong gas-to-power contribution from Triton Power

Power generation GWh

4 | 1Q 2023 results

1Q 2023 Financial results

  • Strong earnings despite lower prices
    • Liquids down 24% to 74 USD/bbl
    • European gas down 37% to 19 USD/mmbtu
    • · North American gas down 30% to 3.2 USD/mmbtu
  • Cost increase mainly due to inflation, transportation, higher CO2 prices, and high activity level
    • · · Reported costs impacted by currency effect
  • Adjusted tax rate of 70.6%

1Q 2023 Adjusted earnings

1

E&P Norway E&P International E&P USA MMP REN
Strong earnings driven by
production growth
Strong earnings and cash flow
driven by production growth
Strong earnings and cash flow
driven by production growth
Strong results driven by
crude, products and liquids
- Assets in operation
contributed USD 29 million
Strong cash flow Suncor acquisition1 US federal tax payment - Timing effects from
derivatives excluded
- High project activity
impacting cost levels
Million USD Pre tax After tax Pre tax After tax Pre tax After tax Pre tax After tax Pre tax After tax
10 23 9,916 2,214 614 330 340 260 1,278 854 (83) (72)
1Q 22 16,256 3,655 1,078 844 713 700 (92) 345 (10) (7)
  1. Closing expected in 2Q23 subject to regulatory approvals

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1Q 2023 Cash flow

1Q 2023 highlights:

  • Cash flow from operations after tax ~9.7 billion²
  • One NCS tax instalment ~USD 5.4 billion
    • · 2Q23: Two instalments of NOK 54 billion each2
  • Capital distribution of USD 3.3 billion5
    • Limited share buy back cash flow impact
  • Organic capex: USD 2.3 billion ।
  • Net cash flow USD 4.2 billion
  • Continued strong balance sheet also due to lower collaterals
    • · Further reduction of net debt ratio to negative 52%3

Year to date 2023 Cash flow Million USD

  1. Income before tax USD 13.7 billion + non-cash items USD 1.6 billion and excludes changes in working capital items 5. Cash dividend, extraordinary dividend and share buy-back executed in the market. State share to be paid in 2023 ~ USD 3.7 billion 6. Including inorganic investments and increase in other interest-bearing items

  2. Excludes changes in working capital

  3. Last two tax instalments for 2022 financial year

  4. Adjusted, excluding IFRS 16 impact

4 May 2023

Outlook

~ 3
2022-23
percent
~10-11 billion USD
2023
~13
2024-26
billion USD
  1. Annual average capex based on USD/NOK of 10

8 | 1Q 2023 results

1Q 2023 Segment results

Adjusted earnings
Pre tax, Million USD
E&P Norway E&P International E&P USA MMP REN
1Q 23 9,916 614 340 1,278 (83)
1Q 22 16,256 1,078 713 (92) (10)
Reported Net
operating income
Pre tax, Million USD
1Q 23 9,816 382 340 2,118 (89)
1Q 22 16,933 (369) 1,245 492 77

Forward-looking statements

This presentation contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. In some cases, we use words such as "ambition", "could", "estimate", "intend", "expect", "believe", "ikely", "may", "outlook", "plan", "strategy", "will", "quidance", "targets", and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact, including, among others, statements regarding Equinor's plans, intentions, ams, ambitions and expectations; the commitment to develop as a broad energy company, the ambition to be a leading company in the energy transition and reduce net group-wide greenhouse gas emissions to decarbonise, future financial performance, includity, accounting policies; the ambition to grow cash flow and returns; expectations regarding progress on the energy transitions regarding cash flow and returns from Equinor's oil and gas portfolio; plans to develop fields and increase gas exports; intention to optimise our portfolio; expectations and plans for renewables production capacity and investments in renewables and low carbon solutions; expectations and plans regarding development of renewables projects, CCUS and hydrogen businesses; future worldwide economic trends, market outlook and future economic projections and assumptions, including commodity price and refinery assumptions; organic capital expenditures through 2026; expectations and estimates regarding production and execution of projects; expectations regarding growth in oil and gas and renewable power production; estimates regarding tax payments; the ambition to keep unit of production cost in the top quartile of our peer group; scheduled maintenance activity and the effects thereof on equity production and results of acquisitions and disposals; expected amount and timing of dividend paymentation of our share buy-back programme; and provisions and contingent liabilities. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements for many reasons.

These forward-looking statements reflect current views about future events, are based on management's current expectations and assumptions and are, by their nature, subject to significant risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including levels of industry product supply, demand and pricing, in particular in light of significant oil price volatility and the uncertainty created by Russia's invasion of Ukraine; unfavourable macroeconomic conditions and inflationary pressures; exchange rate and interest rate fluctuations of reserves and material differences from reserves

estimates; regulatory stability and access to resources; including attractive low carbon opportunities; the effects of climate change and changes in stakeholder sentiment and regulatory requirements regarding climate changes in market demand and supply for renewables; inability to meet strategic objectives; the development and use of new technology; social and/or political instability, including as a result of Ukraine; failure to manage digital and cyber threats; operational problems; unsuccessful drilling; availability of adequate infrastructure; the actions of field partners and other third-parties; reputational damage; the actions of competitors; the Norwegian state as majority shareholder and exercise of ownership by the Norwegian state; changes or uncertainty in or non-compliance with laws and governmental regulations; adverse changes in tax regimes; the polities of Norway and other oil producing countries; regulations on hydraulic fracturing and low-carbon value chains; liquidity, interest rate, equity and credit risks relating to trading and commercial supply activities; an inability to attract and retain personne; ineffectiveness of crisis management systems; insurance coverage; health, safety and environmental risks; physical security risks failure to meet our ethical and social standards; non-compliance with internations; and other factors discussed elsewhere in this report and in Equinor's Integrated Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2022 (including section 5.2 - Risk factors thereof). Equinor's 2022 Integrated Annual Report is available at Equinor's www.equinor.com.

Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that our future results, level of activity, performance or achievements will meet these expectations. Moreover, neither we nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made, and, except as required by applicable law, we undertake no obligation to update any of these statements after the date of this report, either to make them conform to actual results or changes in our expectations.

We use certain terms in this document, such as "resources", that the SEC's rules prohibit us from including in our filings with the SEC. U.S. investors are urged to closely consider the disclosures in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2022, SEC File No. 1-15200. This form is available on our website or by calling 1-800-SEC-0330 or logging on to www.sec.gov.

CONTACT INFORMATION Investor Relations in Equinor

E-mail: [email protected]

Norway/UK

Bard Glad Pedersen Senior Vice President [email protected] +47 91 80 17 91
Lars Valdresbråten IR Officer [email protected] +47 40 28 17 89
Erik Gonder IR Officer [email protected] +47 99 56 26 11
Amberley Doskey IR Officer [email protected] +44 7584 681246
Fan Gao IR Officer [email protected] +44 7771 918026
Ingvar Egeland IR Officer [email protected] +47 99 32 2938
Anne Sofie Dahle Senior Consultant [email protected] +47 90 88 75 54
USA
Nate Mital IR Officer [email protected] +1 469-927-5677
leva Ozola IR Officer [email protected] +1 281-730-6014

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