UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
(Mark One)
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☑ | ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 20202022
OR
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☐ | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
| For the transition period from _______________ to _______________ |
Commission file number 001-13175
VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware | 74-1828067 |
(State or other jurisdiction of | (I.R.S. Employer |
incorporation or organization) | Identification No.) |
One Valero Way
San Antonio, Texas 78249
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (210) 345-2000
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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Title of each class | | Trading Symbol(s)symbol(s) | | Name of each exchange on which registered |
Common stockStock, par value $0.01 per share | | VLO | | New York Stock Exchange |
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None.
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
Yes ☑ No ☐
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.
Yes ☐ No ☑
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☑ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☑ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☑
If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☑
The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common stock held by non-affiliates was approximately $24.0$41.9 billion based on the last sales price quoted as of June 30, 20202022 on the New York Stock Exchange, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter.
As of February 19, 2021, 408,562,89117, 2023, 371,150,836 shares of the registrant’s common stock were outstanding.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
We intend to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission a definitive Proxy Statement for our Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for April 29, 2021,May 9, 2023, at which directors will be elected. Portions of the 20212023 Proxy Statement are incorporated by reference in PartPART III of this Form 10-K and are deemed to be a part of this report.
CROSS-REFERENCE SHEET
The following table indicates the headings in the 20212023 Proxy Statement where certain information required in PartPART III of this Form 10-K may be found.
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Form 10-K Item No. and Caption | | Anticipated Heading in 20212023 Proxy Statement |
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10. | Directors, Executive Officers and
Corporate Governance | | “Information Regarding the Board of Directors Independent Directors,— Committees of the Board — Audit Committee — Current Audit Committee Members,” “Information Regarding the Board of Directors — Committees of the Board — Audit Committee — 2022 Meetings,” “Proposal No. 1 Election of Directors, — Information Concerning Director Nominees, and Other Directors,Identification” “Proposal No. 1 Election of Directors — Nominees,” “Identification of Executive Officers,” and“Miscellaneous — Governance Documents and Codes of EthicsEthics” |
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11. | Executive Compensation | | “Information Regarding the Board of Directors — Committees of the Board — Human Resources and Compensation Committee — Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation,” “Compensation Discussion and Analysis, Executive” “Executive Compensation,” “Director Compensation, Pay” “Pay Ratio Disclosure,” and “Certain Relationships and Related TransactionsTransactions” |
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12. | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters | | “Beneficial Ownership of Valero SecuritiesSecurities” and “Equity Compensation Plan InformationInformation” |
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13. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence | | “Certain Relationships and Related TransactionsTransactions” and “Information Regarding the Board of Directors — Independent DirectorsDirectors” |
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14. | Principal Accountant Fees and Services | | “KPMG LLP Fees Fees”and Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policy |
Copies of all documents incorporated by reference, other than exhibits to such documents, will be provided without charge to each person who receives a copy of this Form 10-K upon written request to Valero Energy Corporation, Attn: Secretary, P.O. Box 696000, San Antonio, Texas 78269-6000.
CONTENTS
The terms “Valero,” “we,” “our,” and “us,” as used in this report, may refer to Valero Energy Corporation, to one or more of its consolidated subsidiaries, orall of them taken as a whole. The term “DGD,” as used in this report, may refer to allDiamond Green Diesel Holdings LLC, its wholly owned consolidated subsidiary, or both of them taken as a whole. In this Form 10-K, we make certain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding our plans, strategies, objectives, expectations, intentions, and resources under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You should read our forward-looking statements together with our disclosures beginning on page 3036 of this report under the heading:heading “CAUTIONARY STATEMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF SAFE HARBOR PROVISIONS OF THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995.” Note references in this report to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements can be found beginning on page 76, under “PART II, ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA.”
PART I
ITEMS 1. and 2. BUSINESS AND PROPERTIES
OVERVIEWOUR BUSINESS
We are a Fortune 500 company based in San Antonio, Texas. Our corporate offices are at One Valero Way, San Antonio, Texas, 78249, and our telephone number is (210) 345-2000. We were incorporated in Delaware in 1981 under the name Valero Refining and Marketing Company. We changed our name to Valero Energy Corporation in 1997. Our common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the trading symbol “VLO.”
We own 15 petroleum refineries that produce conventional gasolines, premium gasolines, reformulated gasoline, gasoline meeting the specificationsare a multinational manufacturer and marketer of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), diesel, low-sulfur diesel, ultra-low-sulfur diesel, CARB diesel, other distillates, jet fuel, asphalt, petrochemicals, lubricants,petroleum-based and other refined petroleum products. We are also a joint venture partner in Diamond Green Diesel Holdings LLC (DGD)1, which owns a plant that produces renewable diesel. We also own 13 ethanol plants that produce ethanollow-carbon liquid transportation fuels and various co-products. Renewable dieselpetrochemical products, and ethanol are both low-carbon transportation fuels. Wewe sell our products primarily in the United States (U.S.), Canada, the United Kingdom (U.K.), Ireland, and Latin America. We own 15 petroleum refineries located in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 3.2 million barrels per day (BPD). We are a joint venture member in Diamond Green Diesel Holdings LLC (DGD)1, which owns two renewable diesel plants located in the Gulf Coast region of the U.S. with a combined production capacity of approximately 1.2 billion gallons per year, and we own 12 ethanol plants located in the Mid-Continent region of the U.S. with a combined production capacity of approximately 1.6 billion gallons per year. We manage our operations through our Refining, Renewable Diesel, and Ethanol segments. See “VALERO’S“OUR OPERATIONS” below for additional information about the operations, products, and properties of each of our operations and properties.reportable segments.
OUR COMPREHENSIVE LIQUID FUELS STRATEGY
Overview
We strive to manage our business to responsibly meet the world’s growing demand for reliable and affordable energy. We believe that liquid transportation fuels—both petroleum-based and low-carbon— help meet that demand, and we expect that they will continue to be an essential source of transportation fuels well into the future. Our strategic actions have enabled us to be a low-cost, efficient, and reliable supplier of these liquid transportation fuels to much of the world.
1 DGD is a joint venture with Darling Ingredients Inc. (Darling) and we consolidate DGD’s financial statements. See Note 11 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements regarding our accounting for DGD.
Most of our petroleum refineries operate in locations with current operating cost and/or other advantages, as described below under “OUR OPERATIONS—Refining,” and we believe our refineries are positioned to meet the strong worldwide demand for our petroleum-based products. Through our refining business, we believe that we have developed expertise in liquid fuels manufacturing and a platform for the marketing and distribution of liquid fuels, and we seek to leverage this expertise and platform to expand and optimize our low-carbon fuels businesses. We expect that low-carbon liquid fuels will continue to be a growing part of the energy mix, and we have made multibillion-dollar investments to develop and grow our low-carbon renewable diesel and ethanol businesses, as described below under “OUR OPERATIONS—Renewable Diesel,” and “—Ethanol.” These businesses have made us one of the world’s largest low-carbon fuels producers and have helped governments across the world achieve their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets, and we continue to seek low-carbon fuel opportunities and to improve our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices.
Regulations, Policies, and Standards Driving Low-Carbon Fuel Demand
Governments across the world have issued, or are considering issuing, low-carbon fuel regulations, policies, and standards to help reduce GHG emissions and increase the percentage of low-carbon fuels in the transportation fuel mix. These regulations, policies, and standards include, but are not limited to, the RFS, LCFS, CFR, and similar programs (collectively, the Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs). These programs are defined and discussed below under “U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program,” “California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS),” and “Canada Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR).” While many of these regulations, policies, and standards result in additional costs to our refining business, they have created opportunities for us to develop our renewable diesel and ethanol businesses, and they should continue to help drive the demand for our renewable diesel and ethanol products. We believe that our ability to supply these low-carbon fuels can play an important role in helping achieve GHG emissions reduction targets in a reliable manner.
The U.S., California, and recently finalized Canada low-carbon fuel regulations, policies, and standards discussed below currently have the most significant impact on our business. However, other municipal, state, and national governments across the world, including in many of the jurisdictions in which we operate, have issued, or are considering issuing, similar low-carbon fuel regulations, policies, and standards. See “ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS—Legal, Government, and Regulatory Risks—The Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs, and other regulations, policies, and standards impacting the demand for low-carbon fuels could adversely affect our performance.” In addition,see Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements regarding our accounting for the costs of the blending programs under “Costs of Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs,” Note 19 for disclosure of the costs of the blending programs under “Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs Price Risk,” and Note 16 for disclosure of our blender’s tax credits under “Segment Information.”
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program
The EPA created the RFS program pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Under the RFS program, by November 30 of each year, the EPA is required to set annual quotas for the volume of renewable fuels that must be blended into petroleum-based transportation fuels consumed in the U.S. in the following compliance year. The quotas are set by class of renewable fuel (i.e., biomass-based diesel, cellulosic biofuel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel) and are collectively referred to as the renewable volume obligation (RVO). The RVO must be met by obligated parties, who are the producers and importers of the petroleum-based transportation fuels consumed in the U.S. Obligated parties demonstrate compliance annually by retiring the appropriate number of renewable identification numbers (RINs) associated with each class of renewable fuel to satisfy their RVO. A RIN is effectively a compliance credit that is assigned to each
gallon of qualifying renewable fuel produced in, or imported into, the U.S. RINs are obtained by blending those renewable fuels into petroleum-based transportation fuels, and obligated parties can also achieve compliance by purchasing RINs in the open market.
We are an obligated party under this program and our Refining segment incurs obligations as a result of being a producer and importer of petroleum-based transportation fuels consumed in the U.S., but we also generate RINs under this program as a result of being a producer of qualifying renewable fuels through our Renewable Diesel and Ethanol segments. Therefore, there is a cost to our refining business from this program because in order to comply with our RVO we must either purchase qualifying renewable fuels for blending or purchase RINs in the open market, but we also generate revenue through our Renewable Diesel and Ethanol segments from this program because we produce and sell qualifying renewable fuels.
California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)
Under California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) was required to undertake a statewide effort to reduce GHG emissions. One of the programs designed to help achieve those reductions is the LCFS program. The LCFS program is designed to reduce GHG emissions by decreasing the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuels consumed in the state. Under this program, each fuel is assigned a CI value, which is intended to represent the GHG emissions associated with the feedstocks from which the fuel was produced, the fuel production and distribution activities, and the use of the finished fuel. CIs are determined using a CARB-developed life cycle GHG emissions analysis model, and CI pathways are certified by the CARB after low-carbon fuel producers submit operational data to demonstrate the life cycle GHG emissions. The certified CIs for both low-carbon and petroleum-based fuels are compared to a declining annual benchmark. Fuels below the benchmark generate credits, while fuels above the benchmark generate deficits. The lower the fuel’s CI score compared to the benchmark, the greater number of credits generated. Each producer or importer of fuel must demonstrate that the overall mix of fuels it supplies for use in California meets the CI benchmarks for each compliance period. A producer or importer with a fuel mix that is above the CI benchmark must purchase LCFS credits sufficient to meet the CI benchmark.
Our Refining segment produces and imports petroleum-based transportation fuels in California and thus must blend low-CI fuels or purchase credits to meet the CI benchmark. However, fuels produced by our Renewable Diesel and Ethanol segments have CI scores that are lower than traditional petroleum-based transportation fuels, and we benefit from the demand from other regulated entities for these low-carbon products. In addition, the demand for some of these low-carbon transportation fuels tends to drive higher values for those fuels compared to petroleum-based transportation fuels due to their lower CI scores. We seek to pursue opportunities to further lower the CI of many of our products, including our low-carbon fuels. See “Our Low-Carbon Projects” below.
Canada Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR)
In July 2022, Canada’s federal environmental agency issued the CFR program to require primary suppliers of gasoline or diesel that is produced in or imported into Canada to reduce the CI of those products. Annual CI reduction requirements prescribed by the CFR program can be satisfied by using compliance credits that a primary supplier creates (through blending low CI fuels) or that are purchased by them. The obligation to achieve prescribed CI reduction requirements begins on July 1, 2023. The CFR program is in addition to Canada’s existing provincial programs (such as in Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia), which require the utilization of low-carbon fuels, and is similar to the LCFS program.
As a primary supplier of gasoline and diesel in Canada, our Refining segment will be subject to the CFR program requirements effective July 1, 2023 and thus must blend low-CI fuels or purchase credits to meet
the annual CI reduction requirements. As noted above under “California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS),” fuels produced by our Renewable Diesel and Ethanol segments have lower CI scores than traditional petroleum-based transportation fuels, and we expect to benefit from the increased demand for these low-carbon products as a result of the CFR program.
U.S. Federal Tax Incentives
The U.S. federal government has enacted tax incentives to encourage the production of low-carbon fuels and/or reduce GHG emissions. Section 6426 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, provides a tax credit (generally referred to as the blender’s tax credit) to blenders of certain renewable fuels to encourage the production and blending of those fuels with traditional petroleum-based transportation fuels. Only blenders that have produced a mixture and either sold or used the fuel mixture as fuel are eligible for the blender’s tax credit. The renewable diesel produced by our Renewable Diesel segment is a liquid fuel derived from biomass that meets the EPA’s fuel registration requirements; therefore, renewable diesel that we produce and blend qualifies for this refundable tax credit of one dollar per gallon. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the IRA) extends Section 6426 through December 31, 2024 (originally set to expire on December 31, 2022) and then replaces it with Section 45Z, which provides a clean fuel production credit for years 2025 through 2027. Tax credits can be claimed under Section 45Z for the production and sale of clean fuels (such as biodiesel, renewable diesel, and alternative fuels, including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)). In addition, Section 45Q provides federal income tax credits to certain taxpayers who capture and sequester, store, or use qualified carbon oxides (e.g., carbon dioxide).
We continually evaluate such federal income tax incentives, and may strategically pursue certain opportunities to optimize the potential benefits therefrom. For example, as discussed below under “Our Low-Carbon Projects,” the carbon capture and sequestration projects at our ethanol plants should increase the value of the ethanol product produced at those plants by helping decrease its CI score and through the expected generation of Section 45Q tax credits, and our recently announced SAF project is expected to produce low-carbon aviation fuel and generate Section 45Z tax credits, which should increase the value of that product.
Our Low-Carbon Projects
We have invested $5.1 billion2 to date in our low-carbon fuels businesses, and we expect additional growth opportunities in this area. We completed the expansion of DGD’s first renewable diesel plant in 2021 and, in the fourth quarter of 2022, we completed construction of DGD’s second renewable diesel plant. These expansions increased DGD’s combined production capacity of renewable diesel to approximately 1.2 billion gallons per year and renewable naphtha to approximately 50 million gallons per year. See “OUR OPERATIONS—Renewable Diesel” below for additional information about the expansion of our renewable diesel business.
We continue to evaluate and advance investments in economic, low-carbon projects, including projects that are intended to lower the CI of our products. For example, in March 2021, we announced our participation in a large-scale carbon capture and sequestration pipeline system in the Mid-Continent region of the U.S. that is expected to capture, transport, and store carbon dioxide that results from the ethanol manufacturing process at our eight ethanol plants located in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and
2 Our investment to date in our low-carbon fuels businesses consists of $3.4 billion in capital investments to build our renewable diesel business and $1.7 billion to build our ethanol business. Capital investments in renewable diesel represent 100 percent of the capital investments made by DGD. See also “ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS—LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES—Our Capital Resources—Capital Investments,” which is incorporated by reference into this item for our definition of capital investments.
South Dakota. We expect to be the anchor shipper with those eight ethanol plants connected to the system. The capture and sequestration of this carbon dioxide should result in the generation of Section 45Q tax credits and the production of a lower CI ethanol product that we expect to market in low-carbon fuel markets, which is expected to result in a higher value for this product. A third party is expected to construct, own, and operate the system, and our capital investment will be to purchase, install, and connect the applicable carbon capture equipment to the system. Initial service is anticipated to begin in late 2024. In addition, certain of our other ethanol plants are located near geology believed to be suitable for sequestering carbon dioxide, and we are evaluating stand-alone projects to sequester carbon dioxide that results from the ethanol manufacturing process at those plants.
In January 2023, we announced that DGD approved a $315 million project to produce SAF. The project is expected to be completed in 2025 and is also expected to make DGD one of the largest SAF manufacturers in the world. The production of a lower CI jet fuel should result in the generation of Section 45Z tax credits and a higher value for this product.
See “ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS—LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES—Our Capital Resources—Capital Investments” for further discussion of our capital investments associated with low-carbon projects.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
We have well-developed management structures that are central to our decision making and risk management, including three programs that support our environmental management as follows:
•Our Commitment to Excellence Management System (CTEMS) is a proprietary systematic approach to planning, executing, checking, and acting to improve everyday work activities at many of our refineries and plants. CTEMS has nine major elements: leadership accountability, protecting people and the environment, people and skills development, operations reliability and mechanical integrity, technical excellence and knowledge management, change management, business competitiveness, external stakeholder relationships, and assurance and review. Risks related to regulatory issues and physical threats to our refineries and plants are among those assessed as we implement CTEMS.
•Environmental Excellence and Risk Assessment (EERA) elevates the environmental audit and compliance functions to an environmental excellence vision. Its main goal is to assess the design and effectiveness of environmental performance regarding specific excellence objectives, and to facilitate continuous improvement across the company. EERA defines more than 100 expectations and involves a proprietary five-step process using due diligence on data and field assessments reviewed by a combination of external and internal subject matter experts.
•Our Fuels Regulatory Assurance Program provides operational safeguards, software, training, and protocols for uniformity across our refineries and plants to reinforce our compliance with applicable fuels regulations. Building on the success of this system, we are developing a proprietary Low-Carbon Assurance Program designed to provide tools and oversight to assure compliance with the increasingly complex array of low-carbon fuels programs, including compliance with the mandatory independent verifications by the jurisdictions in which we sell our products.
OUR OPERATIONS
Our operations are managed through the following reportable segments:
•our Refining segment, which includes the operations of our petroleum refineries, the associated activities to market our refined petroleum products, and the logistics assets that support those operations;
•our Renewable Diesel segment, which includes the operations of DGD and the associated activities to market renewable diesel and renewable naphtha; and
•our Ethanol segment, whichincludes the operations of our ethanol plants and the associated activities to market our ethanol and co-products.
Financial information about these segments is presented in Note 16 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated by reference into this item.
See “ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS—Risks Related to Our Business, Industry, and Operations—Our financial results are affected by volatile margins, which are dependent upon factors beyond our control, including the price of feedstocks and the market price at which we can sell our products,”—“Industry and other developments, and evolving sentiment, regarding fossil fuels and GHG emissions, may decrease the demand for our products and could adversely affect our performance,”—“Disruption of our ability to obtain crude oil, waste and renewable feedstocks, corn, and other feedstocks could adversely affect our operations,”—“Our investments in joint ventures and other entities decrease our ability to manage risk,” and —“Legal, Government, and Regulatory Risks—The Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs, and other regulations, policies, and standards impacting the demand for low-carbon fuels could adversely affect our performance,” which are incorporated by reference into this item.
Refining
Refineries
Overview
Our 15 petroleum refineries are located in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., and they have a combined feedstock throughput capacity of approximately 3.2 million BPD. The following table presents the locations of these refineries and their feedstock throughput capacities as of December 31, 2022.
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Refinery | | Location | | Throughput Capacity (a) (BPD) |
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Benicia | | California | | 170,000 | |
Wilmington | | California | | 135,000 | |
Meraux | | Louisiana | | 135,000 | |
St. Charles | | Louisiana | | 340,000 | |
Ardmore | | Oklahoma | | 90,000 | |
Memphis | | Tennessee | | 195,000 | |
Corpus Christi (b) | | Texas | | 370,000 | |
Houston | | Texas | | 255,000 | |
McKee | | Texas | | 200,000 | |
Port Arthur | | Texas | | 395,000 | |
Texas City | | Texas | | 260,000 | |
Three Rivers | | Texas | | 100,000 | |
Canada: | | | | |
Quebec City | | Quebec | | 235,000 | |
U.K.: | | | | |
Pembroke | | Wales | | 270,000 | |
Total | | | | 3,150,000 | |
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(a)Throughput capacity represents estimated capacity for processing crude oil, intermediates, and other feedstocks. Total estimated crude oil capacity is approximately 2.6 million BPD.
(b)Represents the combined capacities of two refineries – the Corpus Christi East and Corpus Christi West Refineries.
•California
◦Benicia Refinery. Our Benicia Refinery is located northeast of San Francisco on the Carquinez Straits of San Francisco Bay. It processes sour crude oils into California Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending (CARBOB) and Conventional Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending (CBOB) gasolines, CARB diesel, diesel, jet fuel, and asphalt. Gasoline production is primarily CARBOB, which meets CARB specifications when blended with ethanol. The refinery receives feedstocks via a marine dock and pipelines and distributes most of its products via pipeline and truck.
◦Wilmington Refinery. Our Wilmington Refinery is located near Los Angeles. It processes a blend of heavy and high-sulfur crude oils and produces CARBOB and CBOB gasolines, CARB diesel, diesel, jet fuel, and asphalt. The refinery receives feedstocks via pipelines connectedto marine terminals and docks and distributes its products via pipeline to various terminals.
•Louisiana
◦Meraux Refinery. Our Meraux Refinery is located approximately 15 miles southeast of New Orleans on the Mississippi River. It processes sour and sweet crude oils and produces gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and high-sulfur fuel oil. The refinery receives feedstocks at its dock and has access to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port and distributes its products via its dock and the Colonial Pipeline. The refinery is located about 40 miles from our St. Charles Refinery, allowing for integration of feedstocks and refined petroleum product blending.
◦St. Charles Refinery. Our St. Charles Refinery is located approximately 25 miles west of New Orleans on the Mississippi River. It processes sour crude oils and other feedstocks and produces gasoline and diesel. The refinery receives feedstocks via its docks and has access to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port and distributes its products via its docks and our Parkway Pipeline and the Bengal Pipeline, both of which access the Plantation Pipeline and Colonial Pipeline.
•Oklahoma
◦Ardmore Refinery. Our Ardmore Refinery is located approximately 100 miles south of Oklahoma City. It processes primarily sweet crude oils and produces gasoline and diesel. The refinery receives feedstocks via pipelines and distributes its products via rail, truck, and the Magellan Pipeline system.
•Tennessee
◦Memphis Refinery. Our Memphis Refinery is located on the Mississippi River. It processes primarily sweet crude oils and produces gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. The refinery receives feedstocks via the Diamond Pipeline, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and barge and distributes its products via truck, barge, and the Shorthorn Pipeline.
•Texas
◦Corpus Christi East and West Refineries. Our Corpus Christi East and West Refineries are located on the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. The East Refinery processes sour crude oil and the West Refinery processes sweet crude oil, sour crude oil, and residual fuel oil, and both refineries produce gasoline, aromatics, jet fuel, diesel, and asphalt. The refineries receive feedstocks via docks on the Corpus Christi Ship Channel and pipelines. The refineries’ physical locations allow for the transfer of various feedstocks and blending components between them. The refineries distribute their products via truck, ship, barge, and pipeline.
◦Houston Refinery. Our Houston Refinery is located on the Houston Ship Channel. It processes sweet crude and intermediate oils and produces gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel. The refinery receives feedstocks via pipeline, ship, and barge and distributes its products via pipeline, including the Colonial Pipeline and Explorer Pipeline.
◦McKee Refinery. Our McKee Refinery is located in the Texas Panhandle. It processes primarily sweet crude oils and produces gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and asphalt. The refinery receives feedstocks via pipeline and distributes its products primarily via pipeline and rail.
◦Port Arthur Refinery. Our Port Arthur Refinery is located on the Texas Gulf Coast approximately 90 miles east of Houston. It processes heavy sour crude oils and other feedstocks and produces gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and residual fuel oil. The refinery receives feedstocks via rail, ship, barge, and pipeline and distributes its products via pipeline, including the Colonial Pipeline and
Explorer Pipeline, and via ship and barge. The refinery’s new coker is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2023.
◦Texas City Refinery. Our Texas City Refinery is located southeast of Houston on the Texas City Ship Channel. It processes crude oils and produces gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. The refinery receives feedstocks via pipeline and by ship and barge using docks on the Texas City Ship Channel and distributes its products via ship and barge, as well as via pipeline, including the Colonial Pipeline and Explorer Pipeline.
◦Three Rivers Refinery. Our Three Rivers Refinery is located in South Texas between Corpus Christi and San Antonio. It primarily processes sweet crude oils and produces gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and aromatics. The refinery receives feedstocks via pipeline and truck and distributes its products via pipeline.
•Canada
◦Quebec Refinery. Our Quebec Refinery is located in Lévis (near Quebec City). It processes sweet crude oils and produces gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, and low-sulfur fuel oil. The refinery receives feedstocks via ship at its marine dock on the St. Lawrence River (some of which is sourced from our crude oil terminal in Montreal that receives crude oil from western Canada) and distributes its products via our pipeline to our Montreal East terminal and other terminals and via rail, ship, truck, and pipeline.
•U.K.
◦Pembroke Refinery. Our Pembroke Refinery is located in the County of Pembrokeshire in South West Wales. It processes primarily sweet crude oils and produces gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, and low-sulfur fuel oil. The refinery receives its feedstocks via ship and barge through docks on the Milford Haven Waterway and distributes its products via ship, barge, and truck, and through our Mainline Pipeline.
Feedstock Supply
Our crude oil and other feedstocks are purchased through a combination of term and spot contracts. Our term supply contracts are at market-related prices and feedstocks are purchased directly or indirectly from various national oil companies as well as international and U.S. oil companies. The contracts generally permit the parties to amend the contracts (or terminate them), effective as of the next scheduled renewal date, by giving the other party proper notice within a prescribed period of time (e.g., 60 days, 6 months) before expiration of the current term. The majority of the crude oil purchased under our term contracts is purchased at the producer’s official stated price (i.e., the “market” price established by the seller for all purchasers) and not at a negotiated price specific to us.
Marketing
Overview
We sell refined petroleum products in both the wholesale rack and bulk markets. These sales include products that are manufactured in our refining operations, as well as products purchased or received on exchange from third parties. Most of our refineries have access to marine facilities, and they interconnect with common-carrier pipeline systems, allowing us to sell products in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Latin America, and other parts of the world.
Wholesale Rack Sales
We sell our products on a wholesale basis through an extensive rack marketing network. The principal purchasers of our products from terminal truck racks are wholesalers, distributors, retailers, and truck-delivered end users throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Latin America.
The majority of our rack volume is sold through unbranded channels. The remainder is sold to distributors and dealers that are members of the Valero-brand family that operate branded sites in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Mexico. These sites are independently owned and are supplied by us under multi-year contracts. Approximately 7,000 outlets carry our brand names. For branded sites, products are sold under the Valero®, Beacon®, Diamond Shamrock®,and Shamrock® brands in the U.S., the Ultramar® brand in Canada, the Texaco® brand in the U.K. and Ireland, and the Valero® brand in Mexico.
Bulk Sales
We also sell our products through bulk sales channels in the U.S. and international markets. Our bulk sales are made to various petroleum companies, traders, and bulk end users, such as railroads, airlines, and utilities. Our bulk sales are distributed primarily via pipeline, ship, and barge to major tank farms and trading hubs.
Logistics
We own logistics assets (crude oil pipelines, product pipelines, terminals, tanks, marine docks, truck rack bays, and other assets) that support our refining operations. Demand for transportation fuels in Latin America is expected to continue to grow. To support our wholesale rack operations in Latin America, we have invested in or grown our access to terminals and transloading facilities in Mexico and Peru. Our U.S. Gulf Coast refineries are well positioned to support export growth to Latin America and other countries around the world.
Renewable Diesel
Our Relationship with DGD
DGD is a joint venture that we consolidate. We entered into the DGD joint venture in 2011 and it began operations in 2013. See Note 11 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements regarding our accounting for DGD. We operate DGD’s renewable diesel plants and perform certain management functions for DGD as an independent contractor under an agreement with DGD.
Renewable Diesel Plants
DGD owns two renewable diesel plants. The first DGD plant began operations in 2013 and is located next to our St. Charles Refinery (the DGD St. Charles Plant). The second DGD plant commenced operations in the fourth quarter of 2022 and is located next to our Port Arthur Refinery (the DGD Port Arthur Plant, and together with the DGD St. Charles Plant, the DGD Plants). The DGD Plants produce renewable diesel and renewable naphtha. Renewable diesel is a low-carbon liquid transportation fuel that is interchangeable with petroleum-based diesel. Renewable naphtha is used to produce renewable gasoline and renewable plastics. These products are produced from waste and renewable feedstocks using a pre-treatment process and an advanced hydroprocessing-isomerization process. The market value of the renewable diesel can vary based on regional policies, feedstock preferences, and CI scores. Waste feedstocks (predominantly animal fats, used cooking oils, and inedible distillers corn oil) are the preferred feedstocks due to their lower CI scores. While several other companies have made, or have announced interest in making, investments in renewable diesel projects, the DGD Plants are currently two of only a small number of operational facilities that have the capacity to process 100 percent waste and renewable feedstocks, and this feedstock flexibility currently provides a margin advantage.
The DGD Plants receive waste and renewable feedstocks primarily by rail, trucks, ships, and barges owned by third parties. DGD is party to a raw material supply agreement with Darling under which Darling is obligated to offer to DGD a portion of its feedstock requirements at market pricing, but DGD is not obligated to purchase all or any part of its feedstock from Darling. Therefore, DGD pursues the most optimal feedstock supply available.
DGD began an expansion of the DGD St. Charles Plant in 2019 and operations commenced in the fourth quarter of 2021. This expansion increased the DGD St. Charles Plant’s renewable diesel production capacity by approximately 410 million gallons per year, which, at that time, brought DGD’s renewable diesel production capacity to approximately 700 million gallons per year, and provided DGD with the ability to produce approximately 30 million gallons per year of renewable naphtha.
The DGD Port Arthur Plant, which has a production capacity of approximately 470 million gallons of renewable diesel and approximately 20 million gallons of renewable naphtha per year was commissioned and commenced operations in the fourth quarter of 2022. DGD’s combined renewable diesel and renewable naphtha production capacities increased to approximately 1.2 billion gallons and 50 million gallons, respectively, per year.
Marketing
DGD sells renewable diesel and renewable naphthaunder the Diamond Green Diesel® brand primarily to be blended with petroleum-based diesel and gasoline, respectively, and to end users for use in their operations. DGD distributes its renewable diesel and renewable naphtha via ship and rail domestically and to international markets.
Ethanol
Ethanol Plants
Our ethanol business began in 2009 with the purchase of our first ethanol plants. We have since grown the business by purchasing additional ethanol plants. Our 12 ethanol plants are located in the Mid-Continent region of the U.S., and they have a combined ethanol production capacity of approximately 1.6 billion gallons per year. Our ethanol plants are dry mill facilities that process corn to produce ethanol and various co-products, including livestock feed (dry distillers grains, or DDGs, and syrup) and inedible corn oil.
The following table presents the locations of our ethanol plants, their annual production capacities for ethanol (in millions of gallons) and DDGs (in tons), and their annual corn processing capacities (in millions of bushels).
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State | | City | | Ethanol Production Capacity | | DDG Production Capacity | | Corn Processing Capacity |
Indiana | | Bluffton | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
| | Linden | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
| | Mount Vernon | | 100 | | 263,000 | | 35 |
Iowa | | Albert City (a) | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
| | Charles City (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
| | Fort Dodge (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
| | Hartley (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
| | Lakota (a) (b) | | 110 | | 289,000 | | 38 |
Minnesota | | Welcome (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
Nebraska | | Albion (a) | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
Ohio | | Bloomingburg | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
South Dakota | | Aurora (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
Total | | | | 1,585 | | 4,167,000 | | 553 |
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(a)These plants are expected to participate in the carbon capture and sequestration pipeline system discussed in “Our Low-Carbon Projects” above.
(b)This plant is currently configured to produce a higher-grade ethanol product, as opposed to fuel-grade ethanol. As such, its current production capacity is approximately 55 million gallons per year of ethanol.
We source our corn supply from local farmers and commercial elevators. Our plants receive corn primarily via rail and truck.
Marketing
We sell our ethanol under term and spot contracts in bulk markets in the U.S. We also export our ethanol into the global markets. We distribute our ethanol primarily by rail (using some railcars owned by us), truck, ship, and barge. We sell DDGs primarily to animal feed customers in the U.S., Mexico, and Asia, which are distributed primarily via rail, truck, ship, and barge.
Seasonality
Demand for gasoline, diesel, and asphalt is higher during the spring and summer months than during the winter months in most of our markets, primarily due to seasonal increases in highway traffic and construction. The demand for renewable diesel has not significantly fluctuated by season. Ethanol is primarily blended into gasoline, and as a result, ethanol demand typically moves in line with the demand for gasoline.
GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
We incorporate by reference into this Item the disclosures on government regulations, including environmental regulations, contained in the following sections of this report:
•—OUR COMPREHENSIVE LIQUID FUELS STRATEGY—Regulations, Policies, and Standards Driving Low-Carbon Fuel Demand”;
•“ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS—Legal, Government, and Regulatory Risks”; and
•“ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS—ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT MATTERS.”
Capital Expenditures Attributable to Compliance with Government Regulations
Compliance with government regulations, including environmental regulations, did not have a material effect on our capital expenditures in 2022, and we currently do not expect that compliance with these regulations will have material effects on our capital expenditures in 2023.
Other
Because our business is heavily regulated, our costs for compliance with government regulations are significant and can be material, especially costs associated with the Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs disclosed in Notes 18 and 19 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which are incorporated by reference into this item.
HUMAN CAPITAL
We believe that our employees provide a competitive advantage for our success. We seek to foster a culture that supports diversity and inclusion, and we strive to provide a safe, healthy, and rewarding work environment for our employees with opportunities for professional growth and long-term financial stability.
Headcount
On December 31, 2022, we had 9,743 employees. These employees were located in the following countries:
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Country | | Number of Employees |
U.S. | | 8,079 | |
Canada | | 655 | |
U.K. and Ireland | | 851 | |
Mexico and Peru | | 158 | |
Total | | 9,743 | |
Of our total employees as of December 31, 2022, 1,728 were covered by collective bargaining or similar agreements, and 9,716 were in permanent full-time positions. See also “ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS—General Risk Factors—Our business may be negatively affected by work stoppages, slowdowns, or strikes, as well as by new legislation or an inability to attract and retain sufficient labor, and increased costs related thereto.”
Company Culture and Human Capital (People) Strategy
Our company culture and our well-defined expectations of ethics and behavior guide the daily work of our employees and support our efforts to produce exceptional company results. The six values that define our culture are Safety, Accountability, Teamwork, Do the Right Thing, Caring, and Excellence.
Our people strategy and programs are designed and implemented in support of our business and strategic objectives. In building and fostering great teams, we are guided by the following:
•We strive to hire and promote top-talent employees with team-oriented work ethics and values;
•Our pay, benefits, and support programs are designed to attract and retain excellent employees and to reward innovation, ingenuity, and excellence;
•We seek to provide a best-in-class, diverse, and inclusive work environment built on a foundation of respect, accountability, and trust;
•We promote a culture of learning intended to drive excellence at all levels of the organization and to foster career-long growth and development opportunities for employees; and
•We continually assess employee performance, organizational structures, and succession plans to support operational excellence, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Diversity and Inclusion
We believe that having diverse employees and inclusive teams provides strengths and advantages for our success, and our board of directors (Board) and management team strive to promote and improve diversity and inclusion. Of our total employees as of December 31, 2022, approximately 30 percent of our global professional employees were female, 11 percent of our hourly employees were female, and 19 percent of total employees were female. Approximately 37 percent of our U.S. employees are Hispanic or Latino, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or two or more races. We strive to recruit and retain diverse employees and foster a culture of inclusion through various efforts, including targeted recruiting strategies aimed at improving our outreach to underrepresented groups and educational and training programs on diversity-related topics, such as objective hiring and the advantages of diverse employees. We are also committed to hiring and retaining veterans and reservists of the U.S. armed forces, who represent 12 percent of our U.S. employees as of December 31, 2022.
From our intern program to our Board, and at all levels between, we strive to build diverse and inclusive teams. Our intern program class of 2022 was the most diverse in the history of our program, with 43 percent being female and 43 percent representing a racial or ethnic minority. Additionally, seven of our 12 current Board members represent diversity of gender or race/ethnicity. In furtherance of our diversity goals, in 2022 the Board approved a policy, included in our Corporate Governance Guidelines, which provides that when our executive officers (as defined in Rule 3b-7 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) are recruited from outside the company, the initial list of candidates will include qualified gender and racially diverse candidates among the candidates presented.
Safety
We believe that safety and reliability are extremely important, not only for the protection of our employees, communities, and to the cultural values we aspire to as a company, but also for operational success, as a decrease in the number of employee and process safety events should generally reduce unplanned shutdowns and increase the operational reliability of our refineries and plants. This, in turn, should also translate into a safer workplace with fewer environmental incidents and stronger community relations. We strive to improve safety and reliability performance by offering year-round safety training programs for our employees and contractors and by seeking to promote the same expectations and culture of safety. We also seek to enhance our safety performance by conducting safety audits, quality assurance visits, and comprehensive safety and risk assessments at our refineries and plants.
To assess safety performance, we measure our annual total recordable incident rate (TRIR), which includes data with respect to our employees and contractors and is defined as the number of recordable injuries per 200,000 working hours. We also annually measure our Tier 1 Process Safety Event Rate, which is a metric defined by the American Petroleum Institute that identifies process safety events per 200,000 total employee and contractor working hours. We use these measures and believe they are helpful in assessing our safety performance because they evaluate performance relative to the numbers of hours being worked. These metrics are also used by others in our industry, which allows for a more objective comparison of our performance. Our refinery employee and contractor TRIR for 2022 was 0.32 and 0.15, respectively, and our refinery Tier 1 Process Safety Event Rate for 2022 was 0.08.
Compensation and Benefits
We believe that it is important to provide our employees with competitive compensation and benefits. The benefits we offer to employees, depending on work location and eligibility status, include, among others, healthcare plans that are generally available to all employees, extended sick leave, new-parent leave, access to financial planning, programs to support dual-working parents at different stages of their careers,
caregiver support networks (including an on-site child care center at our headquarters) and support for children and parents with disabilities, a company 401(k) matching program, various company-sponsored pension plans, on-site employee wellness centers (also available to eligible dependents at our headquarters), tuition reimbursement programs, fitness center access or a stipend, and employee recognition programs.
We believe that it is important to reward employee performance and have an annual bonus program that rewards achievements of various operational, financial, and strategic objectives. While such objectives include typical financial performance metrics, we believe ESG performance is also important and our annual bonus program rewards achievements in areas such as sustainability, diversity and inclusion, environmental stewardship, compliance, corporate citizenship, and community.
Our compensation programs are designed with consideration of fair treatment and equal pay concepts, and are built upon a foundational philosophy of market-competitive and performance-based pay. Pay equity of our U.S. professional employees is analyzed biennially by an independent consultant retained by us.
Training and Development
We offer a comprehensive training and development program for our employees in subjects such as engineering and technical excellence, safety, environmental, maintenance and machinery/equipment repair, ethics, leadership, and employee performance. We also require all employees to complete training on technical matters, such as cybersecurity and information technology security, and various compliance and corporate conduct matters, including business ethics, conflicts of interest, and anti-bribery and anti-corruption, among others. Our employee development initiatives include customized professional and technical curriculums, efforts to engage our leadership in the employee’s development process, and providing employee performance discussions. We offer a robust virtual training curriculum, which allows for greater availability and access for employees located across our many facilities and enables just-in-time training.
Wellness
We strive to promote the health and well-being of our employees and their families. Our Total Wellness Program serves as the umbrella program for all aspects of employee wellness and is the program through which many of the benefits referenced above are provided. The heart of our Total Wellness Program is the annual wellness assessment, which is intended to provide a detailed picture of an employee’s current health that may educate and inform health decisions by highlighting risk factors and providing information that can help save lives. Under our Total Wellness Program, educational sessions are also scheduled throughout the year on a variety of topics on health and finances. Our Total Wellness Program also supports the financial wellness of our employees through our financial benefit programs, depending on eligibility status and work location.
We also offer a wide range of support to our employees through our confidential employee assistance program, helping employees and their families manage relationship challenges, counseling needs, and substance abuse and recovery, as well as self-care programs for various behavioral health challenges.
PROPERTIES
Our principal properties are described in “OUR OPERATIONS” above and that information is incorporated by reference into this item. We believe that our properties are generally adequate for our operations and that our refineries and plants are maintained in a good state of repair. As of December 31, 2022, we were the lessee under a number of cancelable and noncancelable leases for certain properties. Our leases are discussed in Note 4 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated by reference into this item. Financial information about our properties is presented in Note 5 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated by reference into this item.
AVAILABLE INFORMATIONFeedstock Supply
Our crude oil and other feedstocks are purchased through a combination of term and spot contracts. Our term supply contracts are at market-related prices and feedstocks are purchased directly or indirectly from various national oil companies as well as international and U.S. oil companies. The contracts generally permit the parties to amend the contracts (or terminate them), effective as of the next scheduled renewal date, by giving the other party proper notice within a prescribed period of time (e.g., 60 days, 6 months) before expiration of the current term. The majority of the crude oil purchased under our term contracts is purchased at the producer’s official stated price (i.e., the “market” price established by the seller for all purchasers) and not at a negotiated price specific to us.
Our website address is www.valero.com. Information (including any presentation or report) onMarketing
Overview
We sell refined petroleum products in both the wholesale rack and bulk markets. These sales include products that are manufactured in our website is not part of, and is not incorporated into, this report or any other report we may file with (or furnish to) the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), whether made before or after the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and irrespective of any general incorporation language therein. Furthermore, references to our website URLs are intended to be inactive textual references only. Our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and other reports,refining operations, as well as any amendmentsproducts purchased or received on exchange from third parties. Most of our refineries have access to those reports, filedmarine facilities, and they interconnect with (or furnished to)common-carrier pipeline systems, allowing us to sell products in the U.S. SEC are available on our website (under Investors > Financials > SEC Filings) free of charge, soon after we file or furnish such material. Additionally, on our website (under Investors > ESG), we post our corporate governance guidelinesCanada, the U.K., Ireland, Latin America, and other governance policies, codes of ethics, and the chartersparts of the committees of our board of directors. In this same location, we also publish our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) company overview, our Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Report, our Stewardship and Responsibility Report, and our Review of Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities.
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1 DGD is a joint venture with Darling Ingredients Inc. (Darling) and we consolidate DGD’s financial statements. See Note 13 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated herein by reference, regarding our accounting for DGD.
These documentsWholesale Rack Sales
We sell our products on a wholesale basis through an extensive rack marketing network. The principal purchasers of our products from terminal truck racks are available in print to any stockholder that makes a written request to Valero Energy Corporation, Attn: Secretary, P.O. Box 696000, San Antonio, Texas 78269-6000.wholesalers, distributors, retailers, and truck-delivered end users throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Latin America.
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIPThe majority of our rack volume is sold through unbranded channels. The remainder is sold to distributors and dealers that are members of the Valero-brand family that operate branded sites in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Mexico. These sites are independently owned and are supplied by us under multi-year contracts. Approximately 7,000 outlets carry our brand names. For branded sites, products are sold under the Valero®, Beacon®, Diamond Shamrock®,and Shamrock® brands in the U.S., the Ultramar® brand in Canada, the Texaco® brand in the U.K. and Ireland, and the Valero® brand in Mexico.
Our GoalsBulk Sales
We strivealso sell our products through bulk sales channels in the U.S. and international markets. Our bulk sales are made to managevarious petroleum companies, traders, and bulk end users, such as railroads, airlines, and utilities. Our bulk sales are distributed primarily via pipeline, ship, and barge to major tank farms and trading hubs.
Logistics
We own logistics assets (crude oil pipelines, product pipelines, terminals, tanks, marine docks, truck rack bays, and other assets) that support our businessrefining operations. Demand for transportation fuels in Latin America is expected to responsibly meetcontinue to grow. To support our wholesale rack operations in Latin America, we have invested in or grown our access to terminals and transloading facilities in Mexico and Peru. Our U.S. Gulf Coast refineries are well positioned to support export growth to Latin America and other countries around the world’s demandworld.
Renewable Diesel
Our Relationship with DGD
DGD is a joint venture that we consolidate. We entered into the DGD joint venture in 2011 and it began operations in 2013. See Note 11 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements regarding our accounting for reliable and affordable energy and have made multibillion-dollar investments to develop and grow our low-carbonDGD. We operate DGD’s renewable diesel plants and ethanol businesses. These renewable fuels businesses have made us one of the world’s largest renewable fuels producers. Even so, we continually seek to find ways to reduce the environmental impact of all of our operations and improve our ESG practices.perform certain management functions for DGD as an independent contractor under an agreement with DGD.
Renewable FuelsDiesel Plants
We have invested over $3 billion2 to date in our renewable fuels businesses, and we expect additional growth opportunities in this area. For example, we expect to invest almost $2 billion3 over the next three years to complete the expansion of DGD’s existingDGD owns two renewable diesel plants. The first DGD plant began operations in 2013 and is located next to our St. Charles Refinery in Norco, Louisiana (the DGD St. Charles Plant). The second DGD plant commenced operations in the fourth quarter of 2022 and to build DGD’s second plantis located next to our Port Arthur Refinery in(the DGD Port Arthur Texas. See “VALERO’S OPERATIONS—RENEWABLE DIESEL” for additional information aboutPlant, and together with the expansion of our renewable diesel business.
We believe thatDGD St. Charles Plant, the growth of our renewable fuels businesses not only provides a good business opportunity, but it is also an opportunity for us toDGD Plants). The DGD Plants produce fuels that reduce carbon emissions. Renewable diesel and ethanol are low-carbon transportation fuels that have the potential to result in meaningful reductions in life cycle carbon emissions compared to traditional diesel and non-blended gasoline. Blending and credits with respect to renewable fuels may also help offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Additionally, many state, provincial, and national governments across the world have implemented, or are considering implementing, low-carbon fuel policies and stricter fuel efficiency standards to help reach GHG emissions reduction targets. This has helped, and should continue to help, drive the demand for both renewable diesel and ethanol,renewable naphtha. Renewable diesel is a low-carbon liquid transportation fuel that is interchangeable with petroleum-based diesel. Renewable naphtha is used to produce renewable gasoline and we believe that our ability to supply these renewable fuels could playplastics. These products are produced from waste and renewable feedstocks using a pre-treatment process and an important role in helping achieve such GHG emissions reduction targets.
Reports
We publish and make available on our website various climate-related reports and presentations. These include:
•our presentation providing an ESG overview of our company,
•our SASB Report, which aligns Valero’s performance data with the recommendationsadvanced hydroprocessing-isomerization process. The market value of the SASB framework in the Oil and Gas – Refining and Marketing industry standard,
•our Stewardship and Responsibility Report, and
2Our investment to date in our renewable fuels businesses consists of $1.4 billion in capital investments to build our renewable diesel businesscan vary based on regional policies, feedstock preferences, and $1.7 billionCI scores. Waste feedstocks (predominantly animal fats, used cooking oils, and inedible distillers corn oil) are the preferred feedstocks due to build our ethanol business. Capitaltheir lower CI scores. While several other companies have made, or have announced interest in making, investments in renewable diesel representprojects, the DGD Plants are currently two of only a small number of operational facilities that have the capacity to process 100 percent of the capital investments made by DGD. DGD is our consolidated joint venture, which is described in “OVERVIEW” above. See also “MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS—LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES—Capital Investments,” which is incorporated herein by reference for our definition of capital investments.waste and renewable feedstocks, and this feedstock flexibility currently provides a margin advantage.
3 Represents 100 percent of DGD’s expected capital investments from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2023 related to the expansion of its existing renewable diesel plant and the construction of its second plant. See footnote 2 above.
•our ReviewThe DGD Plants receive waste and renewable feedstocks primarily by rail, trucks, ships, and barges owned by third parties. DGD is party to a raw material supply agreement with Darling under which Darling is obligated to offer to DGD a portion of Climate-Related Risksits feedstock requirements at market pricing, but DGD is not obligated to purchase all or any part of its feedstock from Darling. Therefore, DGD pursues the most optimal feedstock supply available.
DGD began an expansion of the DGD St. Charles Plant in 2019 and Opportunities,operations commenced in the fourth quarter of 2021. This expansion increased the DGD St. Charles Plant’s renewable diesel production capacity by approximately 410 million gallons per year, which, is alignedat that time, brought DGD’s renewable diesel production capacity to approximately 700 million gallons per year, and provided DGD with the main principles outlinedability to produce approximately 30 million gallons per year of renewable naphtha.
The DGD Port Arthur Plant, which has a production capacity of approximately 470 million gallons of renewable diesel and approximately 20 million gallons of renewable naphtha per year was commissioned and commenced operations in the recommendationsfourth quarter of 2022. DGD’s combined renewable diesel and renewable naphtha production capacities increased to approximately 1.2 billion gallons and 50 million gallons, respectively, per year.
Marketing
DGD sells renewable diesel and renewable naphthaunder the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure.Diamond Green Diesel® brand primarily to be blended with petroleum-based diesel and gasoline, respectively, and to end users for use in their operations. DGD distributes its renewable diesel and renewable naphtha via ship and rail domestically and to international markets.
See “—AVAILABLE INFORMATION” above.Ethanol
Ethanol Plants
VALERO’S OPERATIONS
Our operations are managed throughethanol business began in 2009 with the following reportable segments:4
•our refining segment, which includes the operationspurchase of our petroleum refineries,first ethanol plants. We have since grown the associated activities to market our refined petroleum products, and the logistics assets that support those operations;
•our renewable dieselsegment, which includes the operations of DGD and the associated activities to market renewable diesel; and
•our business by purchasing additional ethanolsegment, whichincludes the operations of our plants. Our 12 ethanol plants are located in the associated activitiesMid-Continent region of the U.S., and they have a combined ethanol production capacity of approximately 1.6 billion gallons per year. Our ethanol plants are dry mill facilities that process corn to market ourproduce ethanol and various co-products, including livestock feed (dry distillers grains, or DDGs, and the logistics assets that support those operations.
Financial information about these segments is presented in Note 18 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated herein by reference.
4We revised our reportable segments effective January 1, 2019 to align with certain changes in how our chief operating decision maker managessyrup) and allocates resources to our business. Accordingly, we created the renewable diesel segment because of the growth of renewable fuels in the market and the growth in our investments in renewable fuels production. The renewable diesel operations were transferred from the refining segment on January 1, 2019. At the same time, we combined our Valero Energy Partners LP (VLP) segment into our refining segment. This change was made because of the Merger Transaction with VLP, as defined and discussed in Note 3 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated herein by reference, and the resulting change in how we manage VLP’s operations. We no longer manage VLP as a business but as logistics assets that support the operations of our refining segment.inedible corn oil.
REFINING
Refineries
Overview
Our 15 petroleum refineries are located in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., and they have a combined feedstock throughput capacity of approximately 3.2 million barrels per day (BPD). The following table presents the locations of these refineriesour ethanol plants, their annual production capacities for ethanol (in millions of gallons) and DDGs (in tons), and their feedstock throughputannual corn processing capacities (in millions of bushels).
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State | | City | | Ethanol Production Capacity | | DDG Production Capacity | | Corn Processing Capacity |
Indiana | | Bluffton | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
| | Linden | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
| | Mount Vernon | | 100 | | 263,000 | | 35 |
Iowa | | Albert City (a) | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
| | Charles City (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
| | Fort Dodge (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
| | Hartley (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
| | Lakota (a) (b) | | 110 | | 289,000 | | 38 |
Minnesota | | Welcome (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
Nebraska | | Albion (a) | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
Ohio | | Bloomingburg | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
South Dakota | | Aurora (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
Total | | | | 1,585 | | 4,167,000 | | 553 |
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(a)These plants are expected to participate in the carbon capture and sequestration pipeline system discussed in “Our Low-Carbon Projects” above.
(b)This plant is currently configured to produce a higher-grade ethanol product, as opposed to fuel-grade ethanol. As such, its current production capacity is approximately 55 million gallons per year of ethanol.
We source our corn supply from local farmers and commercial elevators. Our plants receive corn primarily via rail and truck.
Marketing
We sell our ethanol under term and spot contracts in bulk markets in the U.S. We also export our ethanol into the global markets. We distribute our ethanol primarily by rail (using some railcars owned by us), truck, ship, and barge. We sell DDGs primarily to animal feed customers in the U.S., Mexico, and Asia, which are distributed primarily via rail, truck, ship, and barge.
Seasonality
Demand for gasoline, diesel, and asphalt is higher during the spring and summer months than during the winter months in most of our markets, primarily due to seasonal increases in highway traffic and construction. The demand for renewable diesel has not significantly fluctuated by season. Ethanol is primarily blended into gasoline, and as a result, ethanol demand typically moves in line with the demand for gasoline.
GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
We incorporate by reference into this Item the disclosures on government regulations, including environmental regulations, contained in the following sections of this report:
•—OUR COMPREHENSIVE LIQUID FUELS STRATEGY—Regulations, Policies, and Standards Driving Low-Carbon Fuel Demand”;
•“ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS—Legal, Government, and Regulatory Risks”; and
•“ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS—ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT MATTERS.”
Capital Expenditures Attributable to Compliance with Government Regulations
Compliance with government regulations, including environmental regulations, did not have a material effect on our capital expenditures in 2022, and we currently do not expect that compliance with these regulations will have material effects on our capital expenditures in 2023.
Other
Because our business is heavily regulated, our costs for compliance with government regulations are significant and can be material, especially costs associated with the Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs disclosed in Notes 18 and 19 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which are incorporated by reference into this item.
HUMAN CAPITAL
We believe that our employees provide a competitive advantage for our success. We seek to foster a culture that supports diversity and inclusion, and we strive to provide a safe, healthy, and rewarding work environment for our employees with opportunities for professional growth and long-term financial stability.
Headcount
On December 31, 2020.2022, we had 9,743 employees. These employees were located in the following countries:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
RefineryCountry | | Location | | ThroughputNumber of
Capacity (a) (BPD)Employees |
U.S. | | | | |
Benicia | | California | | 170,000 | |
Wilmington | | California | | 135,000 | |
Meraux | | Louisiana | | 135,000 | |
St. Charles | | Louisiana | | 340,000 | |
Ardmore | | Oklahoma | | 90,000 | |
Memphis | | Tennessee | | 195,000 | |
Corpus Christi (b) | | Texas | | 370,000 | |
Houston | | Texas | | 255,000 | |
McKee | | Texas | | 200,000 | |
Port Arthur | | Texas | | 395,000 | |
Texas City | | Texas | | 260,000 | |
Three Rivers | | Texas | | 100,0008,079 | |
Canada | | | | |
Quebec City | | Quebec | | 235,000655 | |
U.K. and Ireland | | | 851 | |
PembrokeMexico and Peru | | Wales | | 270,000158 | |
Total | | | | 3,150,0009,743 | |
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(a)“Throughput capacity” represents estimated capacity for processing crude oil, intermediates, and other feedstocks. Total estimated crude oil capacity is approximately 2.6 million BPD.
(b)Of our total employees as of December 31, 2022, 1,728 were covered by collective bargaining or similar agreements, and 9,716 were in permanent full-time positions. See also “ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS—General Risk FactorsRepresents the combined capacities of two refineries – the Corpus Christi East—Our business may be negatively affected by work stoppages, slowdowns, or strikes, as well as by new legislation or an inability to attract and Corpus Christi West Refineries.retain sufficient labor, and increased costs related thereto.”
CaliforniaCompany Culture and Human Capital (People) Strategy
Our company culture and our well-defined expectations of ethics and behavior guide the daily work of our employees and support our efforts to produce exceptional company results. The six values that define our culture are Safety, Accountability, Teamwork, Do the Right Thing, Caring, and Excellence.
Our people strategy and programs are designed and implemented in support of our business and strategic objectives. In building and fostering great teams, we are guided by the following:
•Benicia Refinery. Our Benicia Refinery is located northeast of San Francisco on the Carquinez Straits of San Francisco Bay. It processes sour crude oils into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel,We strive to hire and asphalt. Gasoline production is primarily California Reformulated Blendstock Gasoline for Oxygenate Blending (CARBOB), which meets CARB specifications when blendedpromote top-talent employees with ethanol. The refinery receives crude oil feedstocks via a marine dockteam-oriented work ethics and crude oil pipelines connected to a southern California crude oil delivery system. Most of the refinery’s products are distributed via pipeline and truck rack into northern California markets.values;
•Wilmington RefineryOur pay, benefits, and support programs are designed to attract and retain excellent employees and to reward innovation, ingenuity, and excellence;
•. Our Wilmington Refinery is located near Los Angeles. The refinery processesWe seek to provide a blendbest-in-class, diverse, and inclusive work environment built on a foundation of heavyrespect, accountability, and high-sulfur crude oils. The refinery produces CARBOB gasoline, diesel, CARB diesel, jet fuel,trust;
•We promote a culture of learning intended to drive excellence at all levels of the organization and asphalt. The refinery is connected by pipeline to marine terminalsfoster career-long growth and associated dock facilities that movedevelopment opportunities for employees; and store crude oil
•We continually assess employee performance, organizational structures, and other feedstocks.succession plans to support operational excellence, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Refined petroleum productsDiversity and Inclusion
We believe that having diverse employees and inclusive teams provides strengths and advantages for our success, and our board of directors (Board) and management team strive to promote and improve diversity and inclusion. Of our total employees as of December 31, 2022, approximately 30 percent of our global professional employees were female, 11 percent of our hourly employees were female, and 19 percent of total employees were female. Approximately 37 percent of our U.S. employees are distributed via pipeline systemsHispanic or Latino, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or two or more races. We strive to recruit and retain diverse employees and foster a culture of inclusion through various third-party terminals in Southern California, Nevada,efforts, including targeted recruiting strategies aimed at improving our outreach to underrepresented groups and Arizona.educational and training programs on diversity-related topics, such as objective hiring and the advantages of diverse employees. We are also committed to hiring and retaining veterans and reservists of the U.S. armed forces, who represent 12 percent of our U.S. employees as of December 31, 2022.
Louisiana
•From our intern program to our Board, and at all levels between, we strive to build diverse and inclusive teams. Our intern program class of 2022 was the most diverse in the history of our program, with 43 percent being female and 43 percent representing a racial or ethnic minority. Additionally, seven of our 12 current Board members represent diversity of gender or race/ethnicity. In furtherance of our diversity goals, in 2022 the Board approved a policy, included in our Meraux RefineryCorporate Governance Guidelines. Our Meraux Refinery is located approximately 15 miles southeast, which provides that when our executive officers (as defined in Rule 3b-7 under the Securities Exchange Act of New Orleans along1934) are recruited from outside the Mississippi River. The refinery processes sourcompany, the initial list of candidates will include qualified gender and sweet crude oils into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and high sulfur fuel oil. The refinery receives crude oil at its dock and has access toracially diverse candidates among the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port. Finished products are shipped from the refinery’s dock and through the Colonial pipeline. The refinery is located about 40 miles from our St. Charles Refinery, allowing for integration of feedstocks and refined petroleum product blending.candidates presented.
•St. Charles Refinery. Our St. Charles Refinery is located approximately 25 miles westSafety
We believe that safety and reliability are extremely important, not only for the protection of New Orleans alongour employees, communities, and to the Mississippi River. The refinery successfully commissionedcultural values we aspire to as a new alkylation unitcompany, but also for operational success, as a decrease in the fourth quarternumber of 2020. The refinery processes sour crude oilsemployee and other feedstocksprocess safety events should generally reduce unplanned shutdowns and increase the operational reliability of our refineries and plants. This, in turn, should also translate into gasolinea safer workplace with fewer environmental incidents and diesel. The refinery receives crude oil over docksstronger community relations. We strive to improve safety and has accessreliability performance by offering year-round safety training programs for our employees and contractors and by seeking to promote the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port. Finished products are shipped over these dockssame expectations and throughculture of safety. We also seek to enhance our Parkway pipelinesafety performance by conducting safety audits, quality assurance visits, and the Bengal pipeline, which ultimately provide access to the Plantationcomprehensive safety and Colonial pipeline networks.
Oklahoma
•Ardmore Refinery. Our Ardmore Refinery is located approximately 100 miles south of Oklahoma City. It processes sweetrisk assessments at our refineries and sour crude oils into gasoline and diesel. The refinery predominantly receives Permian Basin and Cushing-sourced crude oil via third-party pipelines. Refined petroleum products are transported via rail, trucks, and the Magellan pipeline system.plants.
Tennessee
•Memphis Refinery.To assess safety performance, we measure our annual total recordable incident rate (TRIR), which includes data with respect to our employees and contractors and is defined as the number of recordable injuries per 200,000 working hours. We also annually measure our Tier 1 Process Safety Event Rate, which is a metric defined by the American Petroleum Institute that identifies process safety events per 200,000 total employee and contractor working hours. We use these measures and believe they are helpful in assessing our safety performance because they evaluate performance relative to the numbers of hours being worked. These metrics are also used by others in our industry, which allows for a more objective comparison of our performance. Our Memphis Refinery is located along the Mississippi River. It processes primarily sweet crude oils. Most of its production is gasoline, diesel,refinery employee and jet fuels. Crude oil supply is primarily Cushing-sourced via the Diamond pipeline. Crude oil can also be received, along with other feedstocks, via the Dakota Access pipelinecontractor TRIR for 2022 was 0.32 and barge. Most of the refinery’s products are distributed via truck rack0.15, respectively, and barges.our refinery Tier 1 Process Safety Event Rate for 2022 was 0.08.
TexasCompensation and Benefits
•Corpus Christi EastWe believe that it is important to provide our employees with competitive compensation and West Refineries. Our Corpus Christi Eastbenefits. The benefits we offer to employees, depending on work location and West Refinerieseligibility status, include, among others, healthcare plans that are located on the Texas Gulf Coast along the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. The East Refinery processes sour crude oil, and the West Refinery processes sweet crude oil, sour crude oil, and residual fuel oil. The feedstocks are delivered by tanker and barge via deepwater docking facilities along the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, and West Texas or South Texas crude oil is delivered via pipelines. The refineries’ physical locations allow for the transfergenerally available to all employees, extended sick leave, new-parent leave, access to financial planning, programs to support dual-working parents at different stages of various feedstocks and blending components between them. The refineries produce gasoline, aromatics, jet fuel, diesel, and asphalt. Truck racks service local markets for gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, liquefied petroleum gases, and asphalt. These and other finished products are also distributed by ship and barge across docks and third-party pipelines.
•Houston Refinery. Our Houston Refinery is located on the Houston Ship Channel. It processes sweet crude and intermediate oils into gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel. The refinery receives its feedstocks primarily by various interconnecting pipelines and also has waterborne-receiving capability at deepwater docking facilities along the Houston Ship Channel. The majority of itstheir careers,
finished products are deliveredcaregiver support networks (including an on-site child care center at our headquarters) and support for children and parents with disabilities, a company 401(k) matching program, various company-sponsored pension plans, on-site employee wellness centers (also available to local, mid-continent U.S.eligible dependents at our headquarters), tuition reimbursement programs, fitness center access or a stipend, and northeastern U.S. markets through various pipelines, including the Colonial and Explorer pipelines.employee recognition programs.
•McKee Refinery. Our McKee RefineryWe believe that it is locatedimportant to reward employee performance and have an annual bonus program that rewards achievements of various operational, financial, and strategic objectives. While such objectives include typical financial performance metrics, we believe ESG performance is also important and our annual bonus program rewards achievements in the Texas Panhandle. It processes primarily sweet crude oils into gasoline, diesel, jet fuels,areas such as sustainability, diversity and asphalt. The refinery has access to localinclusion, environmental stewardship, compliance, corporate citizenship, and Permian Basin crude oil sources via third-party pipelines. Refined petroleum products are transported primarily via third-party pipelines and rail to markets in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Mexico.community.
•Port Arthur Refinery. Our Port Arthur Refinerycompensation programs are designed with consideration of fair treatment and equal pay concepts, and are built upon a foundational philosophy of market-competitive and performance-based pay. Pay equity of our U.S. professional employees is located on the Texas Gulf Coast approximately 90 miles east of Houston. The refinery processes heavy sour crude oils and other feedstocks into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. The refinery receives crude oilanalyzed biennially by rail, marine docks, and pipelines. Finished products are distributed into the Colonial, Explorer, and other pipelines, and across the refinery docks into ships and barges.an independent consultant retained by us.
•Texas City Refinery.Training and Development
We offer a comprehensive training and development program for our employees in subjects such as engineering and technical excellence, safety, environmental, maintenance and machinery/equipment repair, ethics, leadership, and employee performance. We also require all employees to complete training on technical matters, such as cybersecurity and information technology security, and various compliance and corporate conduct matters, including business ethics, conflicts of interest, and anti-bribery and anti-corruption, among others. Our Texas City Refineryemployee development initiatives include customized professional and technical curriculums, efforts to engage our leadership in the employee’s development process, and providing employee performance discussions. We offer a robust virtual training curriculum, which allows for greater availability and access for employees located across our many facilities and enables just-in-time training.
Wellness
We strive to promote the health and well-being of our employees and their families. Our Total Wellness Program serves as the umbrella program for all aspects of employee wellness and is located southeastthe program through which many of Houstonthe benefits referenced above are provided. The heart of our Total Wellness Program is the annual wellness assessment, which is intended to provide a detailed picture of an employee’s current health that may educate and inform health decisions by highlighting risk factors and providing information that can help save lives. Under our Total Wellness Program, educational sessions are also scheduled throughout the year on a variety of topics on health and finances. Our Total Wellness Program also supports the Houston Ship Channel. The refinery processes crude oils into gasoline, diesel,financial wellness of our employees through our financial benefit programs, depending on eligibility status and jet fuel. The refinery receives its feedstocks by pipelinework location.
We also offer a wide range of support to our employees through our confidential employee assistance program, helping employees and by ship or barge via deepwater docking facilities along the Houston Ship Channel. The refinery uses shipstheir families manage relationship challenges, counseling needs, and barges,substance abuse and recovery, as well as the Colonial, Explorer, and other pipelinesself-care programs for distributionvarious behavioral health challenges.
PROPERTIES
•Three Rivers Refinery. Our Three Rivers Refineryprincipal properties are described in “OUR OPERATIONS” above and that information is locatedincorporated by reference into this item. We believe that our properties are generally adequate for our operations and that our refineries and plants are maintained in South Texas between Corpus Christia good state of repair. As of December 31, 2022, we were the lessee under a number of cancelable and San Antonio. It primarily processes sweet crude oilsnoncancelable leases for certain properties. Our leases are discussed in Note 4 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated by reference into gasoline, distillates, and aromatics. The refinery receives crude oil from West Texas and South Texasthis item. Financial information about our properties is presented in Note 5 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated by pipelines and trucks. The refinery distributes its refined petroleum products primarily through third-party pipelines.reference into this item.
Canada
•Quebec City Refinery. Our Quebec City Refinery is located in Lévis (near Quebec City). It processes sweet crude oils into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, and low-sulfur fuel oil. The refinery receives crude oil by ship at its deepwater dock on the St. Lawrence River and by pipeline and ship (via the St. Lawrence River from a crude terminal in Montreal) from western Canada. The refinery transports its products through our pipeline from Quebec City to our terminal in Montreal and to various other terminals throughout eastern Canada by rail, ships, trucks, and third-party pipelines.
U.K.
•Pembroke Refinery. Our Pembroke Refinery is located in the County of Pembrokeshire in South West Wales. The refinery processes primarily sweet crude oils into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, and low-sulfur fuel oil. The refinery receives all of its feedstocks and delivers some of its products by ship and barge via deepwater docking facilities along the Milford Haven Waterway, with its remaining products being delivered through our Mainline pipeline system and by trucks. The refinery’s new cogeneration project is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2021.
Feedstock Supply
Our crude oil and other feedstocks are purchased through a combination of term and spot contracts. Our term supply contracts are at market-related prices and feedstocks are purchased directly or indirectly from various national oil companies as well as international and U.S. oil companies. The contracts generally
permit the parties to amend the contracts (or terminate them), effective as of the next scheduled renewal date, by giving the other party proper notice within a prescribed period of time (e.g., 60 days, 6 months) before expiration of the current term. The majority of the crude oil purchased under our term contracts is purchased at the producer’s official stated price (i.e., the “market” price established by the seller for all purchasers) and not at a negotiated price specific to us.
Marketing
Overview
We sell refined petroleum products in both the wholesale rack and bulk markets. These sales include refined petroleum products that are manufactured in our refining operations, as well as refined petroleum products purchased or received on exchange from third parties. Most of our refineries have access to marine transportation facilities, and they interconnect with common-carrier pipeline systems, allowing us to sell products in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Latin America, and other countries.parts of the world.
Wholesale Rack Sales
We sell our gasoline and distillate products as well as other products, such as asphalt, lube oils, and natural gas liquids (NGLs), on a wholesale basis through an extensive rack marketing network. The principal purchasers of our refined petroleum products from terminal truck racks are wholesalers, distributors, retailers, and truck-delivered end users throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Latin America.
The majority of our rack volume is sold through unbranded channels. The remainder is sold to distributors and dealers that are members of the Valero-brand family that operate branded sites in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Latin America.Mexico. These sites are independently owned and are supplied by us under multi-year contracts. Approximately 7,000 outlets carry our brand names. For branded sites, products are sold under the Valero®, Beacon®, Diamond Shamrock®, and Shamrock® brands in the U.S., the Ultramar® brand in Canada, the Texaco® brand in the U.K. and Ireland, and the Valero® brand in Latin America.Mexico.
Bulk Sales
We also sell our gasoline and distillate products as well as other products, such as asphalt, petrochemicals, and NGLs, through bulk sales channels in the U.S. and international markets. Our bulk sales are made to various oilpetroleum companies, traders, and bulk end users, such as railroads, airlines, and utilities. Our bulk sales are transporteddistributed primarily by pipelines, barges,via pipeline, ship, and tankersbarge to major tank farms and trading hubs.
Logistics
We own logistics assets (crude oil pipelines, refined petroleum product pipelines, terminals, tanks, marine docks, truck rack bays, and other assets) that support our refining operations. Demand for transportation fuels in Latin America is expected to continue to grow. To support our wholesale rack operations in Latin America, we have invested in or grown our access to terminals and transloading facilities in Mexico and Peru. Our U.S. Gulf Coast refineries are well positioned to support export growth to Latin America and other countries around the world.
RENEWABLE DIESEL
Our Relationship with DGD
DGD is a joint venture that we consolidate. We entered into the DGD joint venture in 2011.2011 and it began operations in 2013. See Note 1311 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements which is incorporated herein by reference, regarding our accounting for DGD. We operate the DGD PlantDGD’s renewable diesel plants and perform certain management functions for DGD as an independent contractor under an agreement with DGD.
Renewable Diesel PlantPlants
DGD owns two renewable diesel plants. The first DGD Plantplant began operations in 2013 and is located next to our St. Charles Refinery in Norco, Louisiana, and its production capacity is 290 million gallons of renewable diesel per year. Renewable diesel is a low-carbon transportation fuel that is interchangeable with diesel produced from petroleum and is produced from rendered and recycled materials, including animal fats, used cooking oils, and other vegetable oils.
(the DGD began an expansion of theSt. Charles Plant). The second DGD Plant in 2019, which is expected to increase its renewable diesel production by 400 million gallons per year; construction is expected to be completedplant commenced operations in the fourth quarter of 2021. Additionally, in January 2021, we2022 and our joint venture partner approved the construction of a new 470 million gallons per year renewable diesel plant to beis located next to our Port Arthur Refinery in(the DGD Port Arthur Texas.Plant, and together with the DGD St. Charles Plant, the DGD Plants). The new plant is expected to increase DGD’s totalDGD Plants produce renewable diesel productionand renewable naphtha. Renewable diesel is a low-carbon liquid transportation fuel that is interchangeable with petroleum-based diesel. Renewable naphtha is used to produce renewable gasoline and renewable plastics. These products are produced from waste and renewable feedstocks using a pre-treatment process and an advanced hydroprocessing-isomerization process. The market value of the renewable diesel can vary based on regional policies, feedstock preferences, and CI scores. Waste feedstocks (predominantly animal fats, used cooking oils, and inedible distillers corn oil) are the preferred feedstocks due to their lower CI scores. While several other companies have made, or have announced interest in making, investments in renewable diesel projects, the DGD Plants are currently two of only a small number of operational facilities that have the capacity to almost 1.2 billion gallons per year.process 100 percent waste and renewable feedstocks, and this feedstock flexibility currently provides a margin advantage.
The DGD Plant receives renderedPlants receive waste and recycled materialsrenewable feedstocks primarily by rail, trucks, ships, and trucksbarges owned by third parties. DGD is party to a raw material supply agreement with Darling under which Darling is obligated to offer to DGD a portion of its feedstock requirements at competitivemarket pricing, but DGD is not obligated to purchase all or any part of its feedstock from Darling. Therefore, DGD pursues the lowest costmost optimal feedstock supply available. See Item 1A, “RISK FACTORS”—Risks Related
DGD began an expansion of the DGD St. Charles Plant in 2019 and operations commenced in the fourth quarter of 2021. This expansion increased the DGD St. Charles Plant’s renewable diesel production capacity by approximately 410 million gallons per year, which, at that time, brought DGD’s renewable diesel production capacity to Our Business, Industry,approximately 700 million gallons per year, and Operations—Our investments in joint ventures and other entities decrease ourprovided DGD with the ability to manage risk, and—Disruptionproduce approximately 30 million gallons per year of our abilityrenewable naphtha.
The DGD Port Arthur Plant, which has a production capacity of approximately 470 million gallons of renewable diesel and approximately 20 million gallons of renewable naphtha per year was commissioned and commenced operations in the fourth quarter of 2022. DGD’s combined renewable diesel and renewable naphtha production capacities increased to obtain crude oil, renderedapproximately 1.2 billion gallons and recycled materials, corn, and other feedstocks could adversely affect our operations, which are incorporated herein by reference.50 million gallons, respectively, per year.
Marketing
DGD’sDGD sells renewable diesel is sold and renewable naphthaunder the Diamond Green Diesel®Diesel® brand primarily to refiners to be blended with petroleum-based diesel. Renewable diesel is also soldand gasoline, respectively, and to end users for use in their operations. DGD sellsdistributes its renewable diesel and renewable naphtha via ship and rail domestically and exports renewable diesel into global markets, primarily Canada and Europe. Renewable diesel is distributed primarily by rail and ships owned by third parties. See Item 1A, “RISK FACTORS”—Risks Related to Our Business, Industry, and Operations—Developments with respect to low-carbon fuel policies and the market for alternative fuels may affect demand for our renewable fuels and could adversely affect our financial performance, which isincorporated herein by reference.international markets.
ETHANOLEthanol
Ethanol Plants
Our ethanol business began in 2009 with the purchase of our first ethanol plants. We have since grown the business by purchasing additional ethanol plants. Our 1312 ethanol plants are located in the Mid-Continent region of the U.S., and they have a combined ethanol production capacity of 1.69approximately 1.6 billion gallons per year. Our ethanol plants are dry mill facilities that process corn to produce ethanol and various co-products, including livestock feed (dry distillers grains, or DDGs, and syrup), and inedible corn oil.
The following table presents the locations of our ethanol plants, their annual production capacities for ethanol (in millions of gallons) and DDGs (in tons), and their annual corn processing capacities (in millions of bushels).
| State | State | | City | | Ethanol Production Capacity | | DDG Production Capacity | | Corn Processing Capacity | State | | City | | Ethanol Production Capacity | | DDG Production Capacity | | Corn Processing Capacity |
Indiana | Indiana | | Bluffton | | 130 | | 340,000 | | 45 | Indiana | | Bluffton | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
| | Linden | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 | | Linden | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
| | Mount Vernon | | 100 | | 263,000 | | 35 | | Mount Vernon | | 100 | | 263,000 | | 35 |
Iowa | Iowa | | Albert City | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 | Iowa | | Albert City (a) | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
| | Charles City | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 | | Charles City (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
| | Fort Dodge | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 | | Fort Dodge (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
| | Hartley | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 | | Hartley (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
| | Lakota | | 110 | | 289,000 | | 38 | | Lakota (a) (b) | | 110 | | 289,000 | | 38 |
Minnesota | Minnesota | | Welcome | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 | Minnesota | | Welcome (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
Nebraska | Nebraska | | Albion | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 | Nebraska | | Albion (a) | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
Ohio | Ohio | | Bloomingburg | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 | Ohio | | Bloomingburg | | 135 | | 355,000 | | 47 |
South Dakota | South Dakota | | Aurora | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 | South Dakota | | Aurora (a) | | 140 | | 368,000 | | 49 |
Wisconsin | | Jefferson | | 110 | | 352,000 | | 41 | |
Total | Total | | 1,690 | | 4,504,000 | | 592 | Total | | 1,585 | | 4,167,000 | | 553 |
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(a)These plants are expected to participate in the carbon capture and sequestration pipeline system discussed in “Our Low-Carbon Projects” above.
The foregoing table excludes data relating(b)This plant is currently configured to our Riga, Michiganproduce a higher-grade ethanol plant, which ceased operations in 2020.product, as opposed to fuel-grade ethanol. As such, its current production capacity is approximately 55 million gallons per year of ethanol.
We source our corn supply from local farmers and commercial elevators. We publish on our website a corn bid for local farmers and cooperative dealers to facilitate corn supply transactions. Our plants receive corn primarily byvia rail and truck.
Marketing
We sell our ethanol primarily to refiners and gasoline blenders under term and spot contracts in bulk markets such as New York, Chicago,in the U.S. Gulf Coast, Florida, and the U.S. West Coast. We also export our ethanol into the global markets. We distribute our ethanol primarily by rail (including(using some railcars owned by us), truck, ship, and third-party trucks, barges, and vessels.barge. We sell DDGs primarily to animal feed customers in the U.S., Mexico, and Asia, which are transporteddistributed primarily by third-partyvia rail, trucks,truck, ship, and vessels.barge.
SEASONALITYSeasonality
Demand for gasoline, diesel, and asphalt is higher during the spring and summer months than during the winter months in most of our markets, primarily due to seasonal increases in highway traffic and construction. The demand for renewable diesel has not significantly fluctuated by season. Ethanol is primarily blended into gasoline, and as a result, ethanol demand typically moves in line with the demand for gasoline.
GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
We incorporate by reference into this Item the disclosures on government regulations, including environmental regulations, contained in the following sections of this report:
•Item 1A, “RISK FACTORS”—Risks Related to Our Business, Industry,OUR COMPREHENSIVE LIQUID FUELS STRATEGY—Regulations, Policies, and Operations—Standards Driving Low-Carbon Fuel DemandLegal, technological, and political developments and evolving market sentiment regarding fuel efficiency and low-carbon fuel standards may decrease the demand for our products and could adversely affect our performance;
•Item 1A, “RISK FACTORS”—Legal, Governmental, and Regulatory Risks; and
•Item 3, “LEGAL PROCEEDINGS”—ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT MATTERS.”;
•“ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS—Legal, Government, and Regulatory Risks”; and
•“ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS—ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT MATTERS.”
Capital Expenditures Attributable to Compliance with Government Regulations. In 2020, our capital expenditures attributable to compliance with environmental regulations were $27 million, and they are currently estimated to be $13 million for 2021 and $24 million for 2022. The estimates for 2021 and 2022 do not include amounts related to capital investments at our refineries and plants that management has deemed to be strategic investments. These amounts could materially change as a result of governmental and regulatory actions. We have incurred significant capital expenditures in prior years to comply with government regulations; however, we do not believe that compliance
Compliance with government regulations, including environmental regulations, haddid not have a material effect on our capital expenditures in 2020,2022, and we currently do not expect that compliance with these regulations will have material effects on our capital expenditures in 2021.2023.
Other.
Because our business is heavily regulated, our costs for compliance with government regulations are significant and can be material, especially costs associated with environmental compliance programs, which are furtherthe Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs disclosed in Notes 2018 and 2119 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which are incorporated herein by reference.reference into this item.
HUMAN CAPITAL
We believe that our employees provide a competitive advantage for our success. We seek to foster a culture that supports diversity and inclusion, and we strive to provide a safe, healthy, and rewarding work environment for our employees with opportunities for professional growth and long-term financial stability.
Headcount
On JanuaryDecember 31, 2021,2022, we had 9,9649,743 employees. These employees were located in the following countries:
| | | | | | | | |
Country | | Number of Employees |
U.S. | | 8,3268,079 | |
Canada | | 642655 | |
U.K. and Ireland | | 855851 | |
Mexico and Peru | | 141158 | |
Total | | 9,9649,743 | |
Of our total employees as of JanuaryDecember 31, 2021, 1,7682022, 1,728 were covered by collective bargaining or similar agreements, and 9,8039,716 were in permanent full-time positions. See also Item 1A, “RISK FACTORS”—“ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS—General Risk Factors—Our business may be negatively affected by work stoppages, slowdowns, or strikes, by our employees, as well as by new legislation or an inability to attract and retain sufficient labor, legislation issued by regulatorsand increased costs related thereto.”
Company Culture and Human Capital (People) Strategy
Our company culture and our well-defined expectations of ethics and behavior guide the daily work of our employees and support our efforts to produce exceptional company results. The six values that define our culture are Safety, Accountability, Teamwork, Do the Right Thing, Caring, and Excellence.
Our people strategy and programs are designed and implemented in support of our business and strategic objectives. In building and fostering great teams, we are guided by the following:
•We strive to hire and promote top-talent employees with team-oriented work ethics and values;
•Our pay, benefits, and support programs are designed to attract and retain excellent employees and to reward innovation, ingenuity, and excellence;
•We seek to provide a best-in-class, diverse, and inclusive work environment built on a foundation of respect, accountability, and trust;
•We promote a culture of learning intended to drive excellence at all levels of the organization and to foster career-long growth and development opportunities for employees; and
•We continually assess employee performance, organizational structures, and succession plans to support operational excellence, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Diversity and Inclusion
We believe that having diverse employees and inclusive teams provides strengths and advantages for our success, and our board of directors (Board) and management team strive to promote and improve diversity and inclusion. Of our total employees as of December 31, 2022, approximately 30 percent of our global professional employees were female, 11 percent of our hourly employees were female, and 19 percent of total employees were female. Approximately 37 percent of our U.S. employees are Hispanic or Latino, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or two or more races. We strive to recruit and retain diverse employees and foster a culture of inclusion through various efforts, including targeted recruiting strategies aimed at improving our outreach to underrepresented groups and educational and training programs on diversity-related topics, such as objective hiring and the advantages of diverse employees. We are also committed to hiring and retaining veterans and reservists of the U.S. armed forces, who represent 12 percent of our U.S. employees as of December 31, 2022.
From our intern program to our Board, and at all levels between, we strive to build diverse and inclusive teams. Our intern program class of 2022 was the most diverse in the history of our program, with 43 percent being female and 43 percent representing a racial or ethnic minority. Additionally, seven of our 12 current Board members represent diversity of gender or race/ethnicity. In furtherance of our diversity goals, in 2022 the Board approved a policy, included in our Corporate Governance Guidelines, which provides that when our executive officers (as defined in Rule 3b-7 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) are recruited from outside the company, the initial list of candidates will include qualified gender and racially diverse candidates among the candidates presented.
Safety
We believe that safety and reliability are extremely important, not only for the protection of our employees, communities, and to the cultural values we aspire to as a company, but also for operational success, as a decrease in the number of employee safety events and process safety events should generally reduce unplanned shutdowns and increase the operational reliability of our refineries and plants. This, in turn, should also translate into a safer workplace with fewer environmental incidents a safer workplace, lower environmental impacts, and betterstronger community relations. We strive to improve safety and reliability performance by offering year-round safety training programs for our employees and contractors and by seeking to promote the same expectations and culture of safety among all of our workers.safety. We also seek to enhance our safety complianceperformance by conducting safety audits, quality assurance visits, and comprehensive safety and risk assessments.assessments at our refineries and plants.
In assessingTo assess safety performance, we measure our annual total recordable incident rate (TRIR), which includes data with respect to our employees and contractors and is defined as the number of recordable injuries per 200,000 working hours. We also annually measure our Tier 1 Process Safety Event Rate, which is a metric defined by the American Petroleum Institute that looks atidentifies process safety events per 200,000 total employee and contractor working hours. We use these measures and believe they are helpful in assessing our safety performance because they evaluate performance relative to the numbers of hours being worked. These metrics are also used by others in our industry, which allows for a more objective comparison of our performance. In 2020, ourOur refinery employee and contractor TRIR for 2022 was 0.340.32 and 0.15, respectively, and our refinery Tier 1 Process Safety Event Rate for 2022 was 0.06. As a result, in 2020 we had one of our best years ever in terms of safety performance.0.08.
Compensation and Benefits
We believe that it is important to provide our employees with competitive compensation and benefits. The benefits we offer to employees, depending on work location and eligibility status, include, among others, healthcare plans that are generally available to all employees, extended sick leave, new-parent leave, access to financial planning, programs to support dual workingdual-working parents at different stages of their careers,
caregiver support networks (including an on-site child care center at our headquarters) and support for children and parents with disabilities, a company 401(k) matching program, avarious company-sponsored pension plan,plans, on-site employee wellness centers (also available to eligible dependents at our headquarters), tuition reimbursement programs, fitness center access or a stipend, and employee recognition programs.
We believe that it is important to reward employee performance and have an annual bonus program that rewards achievements of various operational, financial, and strategic objectives. While such objectives include more typical financial performance metrics, such as earnings per share and cash operating expenses, we believe ESG performance is also important and our annual bonus program rewards achievements in areas such as sustainability, diversity and inclusion, environmental stewardship, compliance, corporate citizenship, and corporate citizenship.community.
Our compensation programs are designed with consideration of fair treatment and equal pay concepts, and are built upon a foundational philosophy of market-competitive and performance-based pay. Pay equity of our U.S. professional employees is analyzed biennially by an independent consultant retained by us.
Training and Development
We offer a comprehensive training and development program for our employees in subjects ranging fromsuch as engineering and technical excellence, safety, environmental, maintenance and machinery/equipment repair, to ethics, leadership, and employee performance. We also require all employees to complete training on technical matters, such as cybersecurity and information technology security, and various compliance and corporate conduct matters, including business ethics, conflicts of interest, and anti-bribery and anti-corruption, among others. Our employee development initiatives include customized professional and technical curriculums, efforts to engage our leadership in the employee’s development process, and providing employee performance discussions. We offer a robust virtual training curriculum, which allows for greater availability and access for employees located across our many facilities and enables just-in-time training.
Wellness
We strive to promote the health and well-being of our employees and their families. Our Total Wellness Program serves as the umbrella program for all aspects of employee wellness and is the program through which many of the benefits referenced above are provided. The heart of our Total Wellness Program is the annual wellness assessment, which is intended to provide a detailed picture of an employee’s current health that may educate and inform health decisions by highlighting risk factors and providing information that can help save lives. A few of the many resources provided with this annual assessment may include a body composition analysis, an online nutritional analysis, lab work, and a sleep analysis. Under our Total Wellness Program, educational sessions are also scheduled throughout the year on a variety of topics on health and finances. Our Total Wellness Program also supports the financial wellness of our employees through our financial benefit programs, depending on eligibility status and work location.
We are also proud to offer no-cost assistance and a wide range of support to our employees through our confidential employee assistance program, helping employees and their families manage relationship challenges, counseling needs, and substance abuse and recovery, as well as self-care programs for various behavioral health challenges. In addition, during times of crisis (such as the COVID-19 pandemic), certain of our benefit partners offer toll-free, 24-hour access to emotional support help lines.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
We believe that having a diverse workforce and inclusive teams provides strengths and advantages for our success, and our board of directors and management team strive to promote and improve diversity and inclusion. As of January 31, 2021, approximately 29 percent of our professional employees were female, 11 percent of our hourly employees were female, and 19 percent of total employees were female. Approximately 35 percent of our U.S. employees have self-identified as Hispanic or Latino, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or of two or more races. We strive to recruit and retain a diverse workforce and foster a culture of inclusion through various efforts, including targeted recruiting strategies aimed at improving our outreach to underrepresented groups and educational and training programs on topics such as objective hiring and the advantages of a diverse workforce.
PROPERTIES
Our principal properties are described in “OUR OPERATIONS” above under the caption “VALERO’S OPERATIONS,” and that information is incorporated herein by reference.reference into this item. We believe that our properties are generally adequate for our operations and that our refineries and plants are maintained in a good state of repair. As of December 31, 2020,2022, we were the lessee under a number of cancelable and noncancelable leases for certain properties. Our leases are discussed in Note 64 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated herein by reference.reference into this item. Financial information about our properties is presented in Note 75 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated herein by reference.reference into this item.
AVAILABLE INFORMATION
Our website address is www.valero.com. Information (including any presentation or report) on our website is not part of, and is not incorporated into, this report or any other report or document we may file with or furnish to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), whether made before or after the date of this annual report on Form 10-K and irrespective of any general incorporation language therein, unless specifically identified in such filing as being incorporated by reference in such filing. Furthermore, references to our website URLs are intended to be inactive textual references only. Our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, proxy statement, and other filings and reports, as well as any amendments to those filings and reports, filed with or furnished to the SEC are available on our website (under Investors > Financials > SEC Filings) free of charge, soon after we file or furnish such material.
Our patents relatingAdditionally, on our website (under Investors > ESG), we post our Corporate GovernanceGuidelines and other governance policies, codes of ethics, and the charters of the committees of our Board. In this same location, we also publish our 2022 ESG Report (previously titled our Stewardship and Responsibility Report), which includes our 2022 SASB Report, our report disclosing certain U.S. employment data that corresponds to our refining operations2021 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Information (EEO-1) Report (filed in 2022), our 2025 and 2035 GHG emissions reductions and displacement targets and other disclosures, and our 2022 TCFD Report. These documents are available in print to any stockholder that makes a written request to Valero Energy Corporation, Attn: Secretary, P.O. Box 696000, San Antonio, Texas 78269-6000. Our ESG Overview is also available on our website (under Responsibility > ESG: Environmental, Social and Governance) and disclosures concerning our political engagement, climate lobbying, and trade associations are available on our website (under Investors > ESG). These reports and disclosures are not materiala part of this annual report on Form 10-K, are not deemed filed with the SEC, and are not to us as a whole. The trademarks and tradenames under which we conduct our branded wholesale business — Valero®, Diamond Shamrock®, Shamrock®, Ultramar®, Beacon®, and Texaco®— and other trademarks employed in the marketing of refined petroleum products are integral to our wholesale rack marketing operations. The trademark and tradename under which DGD sells its renewable diesel — Diamond Green Diesel® — is integral to the salesbe incorporated by reference into any of our renewable diesel segment.filings with the SEC, whether made before or after the date of this annual report on Form 10-K and irrespective of any general incorporation language therein, unless specifically identified in such filing as being incorporated by reference in such filing.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
You should carefully consider the following risk factors in addition to the other information included in this report. Each of these risk factors could adversely affect our business, operatingfinancial condition, results of operations, and/or financial condition,liquidity, as well as adversely affect the value of an investment in our common stock or debt securities.
Risks Related to COVID-19
The outbreak of COVID-19 has had, and may continue to have, material adverse consequences for general economic, financial, and business conditions, and could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity and those of our customers, suppliers, and other counterparties.
The outbreak of COVID-19 and the responses of governmental authorities and companies, as well as the self-imposed restrictions by many individuals across the world to stem the spread of the virus, have significantly reduced global economic activity; as a result, there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of businesses open for operation, and substantially fewer people across the world have been traveling to work or leaving their homes to procure or provide goods and services. This has resulted, for example, in a dramatic reduction in airline flights and has reduced the number of cars on the road. As a result, there has been a decline in the demand for, and thus also the market prices of, crude oil and certain of our products, particularly the refined petroleum products that we manufacture and sell.
Concerns over the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic and business prospects across the world have contributed to increased market and crude oil price volatility and have diminished expectations for the global economy. These factors, coupled with the emergence of decreasing business and consumer confidence and increasing unemployment resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak and the increase in crude oil price volatility, have precipitated an economic slowdown. The current economic slowdown and period of depressed prices for crude oil and most of our products has had, and may continue to have, significant adverse consequences on our financial condition and the financial condition of our customers, suppliers, and other counterparties. This has also had, and may continue to have, a
negative effect on our liquidity and our ability to obtain adequate crude oil volumes and other feedstock supplies and to market certain of our products at favorable prices, or at all.
Declines in the market prices of crude oil, other feedstocks, and products below their carrying values in our inventory have required, and may continue to require, us to make certain valuation adjustments (e.g., lower of cost or market (LCM) inventory valuation adjustments) to write down the value of our inventories. This has in turn had, and may continue to have, a negative impact on our operating income. The decline in the price of the refined products we sell and the feedstocks we purchase has had, and may continue to have, an adverse impact on other areas of our business and results of operation, such as our revenues and cost of sales. In addition, a sustained period of low crude oil prices, such as we experienced in 2020, may also result in significant financial constraints on certain producers from which we acquire our crude oil, which could result in long term crude oil supply constraints for our business. Such conditions could also result in an increased risk that customers, lenders, service and insurance providers, and other counterparties, such as counterparties to our commodity hedging or derivative instruments, or other agreements vital to our operations, may be unable to fully fulfil their obligations in a timely manner, or at all. Any of the foregoing events or conditions, or other unforeseen consequences of COVID-19, could significantly adversely affect our business and financial condition and the business and financial condition of our customers, suppliers, and other counterparties.
While in the latter part of the second quarter of 2020 certain governmental authorities in the U.S. and abroad began lifting many of the restrictions put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19, which resulted in an increase in the demand and market prices for most of our products relative to what we experienced during the first several months of the pandemic, developments with respect to COVID-19 have been occurring at a rapid pace and the risk remains that circumstances could change. For instance, many locations where restrictions were lifted, and others where the restrictions were more moderately lifted (such as California in our U.S. West Coast region, and New York, Canada, and the U.K. in our North Atlantic region), have experienced a resurgence in the spread of COVID-19 prompting many governmental authorities to re-impose certain restrictions that had previously been lifted or softened. In addition, in December 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Canadian and U.K. regulators each granted emergency-use authorization for multiple COVID-19 vaccines to be used as immunization against the virus. Although these vaccines may be seen as a key factor in helping to restore public confidence, and thus stimulate and increase economic activity, potentially to pre-pandemic levels, they may not be distributed widely on a timely basis and they may not be effective against new variants of the COVID-19 virus.
Many uncertainties remain with respect to COVID-19, including its resulting economic effects, and we are unable to predict the ultimate economic impacts from COVID-19 on our business and how quickly national economies can recover once the pandemic subsides, the timing or effectiveness of vaccine distributions, the potential for new variants of the virus or whether any recovery will ultimately experience a reversal or other setbacks. The ultimate extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will depend largely on future developments, particularly within the geographic areas where we operate, and the related impact on overall economic activity, all of which are currently unknown and cannot be predicted with certainty at this time. However, the adverse impacts of the economic effects from the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty in the global oil markets on our business have been and will likely continue to be significant.
The adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity have also had, and may continue to have, the effect of heightening many of the other risks described in the other risk factors below, as those risk factors are amended or supplemented by
subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other reports and documents we file with the U.S. SEC after the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Risks Related to Our Business, Industry, and Operations
Our financial results are affected by volatile margins, which are dependent upon factors beyond our control, including the price of crude oil, corn, and other feedstocks and the market price at which we can sell our products.
Our financial results are affected by the relationship, or margin, between our product prices and the prices for crude oil, corn, and other feedstocks.feedstocks that we purchase, which can vary based on global, regional, and local market conditions, as well as by type and class of product. Historically, refining and ethanolproduct margins have been volatile, and we believe they will continue to be volatile in the future. Our cost to acquire feedstocks and the price at which we can ultimately sell products depend upon several factors beyond our control, including regional and global supplysupplies of and demand for feedstocks (such as crude oil, corn, otherwaste and renewable feedstocks and corn), liquid transportation fuels (such as gasoline, diesel, other refined petroleum products,renewable diesel, and renewableethanol), and other products. These in turn depend on, among other things, the availability and quantity of imports,feedstocks and liquid transportation fuels imported into the countries in which we operate, the production levels of U.S. and international suppliers, levels of product inventories, productivity and growth (or the lack thereof) of the U.S. and global economies, the U.S. government’s relationships with foreign governments, political affairs, and the extent of governmentalgovernment regulation. The ability of the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to agree on and to maintain crude oil price and production controls hasand changes in trade flows from events such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict have also had, and mayare likely to continue to have, a significant impact on the market prices of crude oil and certain of our products. Additionally, the regulations, policies, and standards discussed under “ITEMS 1. and 2. BUSINESS AND PROPERTIES—OUR COMPREHENSIVE LIQUID FUELS STRATEGY—Regulations, Policies, and Standards Driving Low-Carbon Fuel Demand” have had, and are likely to continue to have, a significant impact on the market prices of the feedstocks for, and products produced by, our low-carbon fuels businesses. Any adverse change in these regulations, policies, and standards (including, for example, changes in the price of carbon or other inputs that affect the value of our low-carbon fuels), or in our ability to obtain any approved fuel pathways, could have a material adverse effect on the margins we receive for our low-carbon products in certain markets.
Some of these factors can vary by region and may change quickly, adding to market volatility, while others may have longer-term effects. The longer-term effects of these and other factors on product margins are uncertain. We do not produce crude oil, waste and renewable feedstocks, corn or all of our other primary feedstocks and must purchase nearly all of the feedstocks we process. We generally purchase our feedstocks long before we process them and sell the resulting products. Price level changes during the period between purchasing feedstocks and selling the resulting products has had, and in the future could continue to have, a significant effect on our financial results. A decline in market prices as was experienced during much of 2020, negatively impacted,has had and may continuecould again have a negative impact to negatively impact, the carrying value of our inventories.
Economic turmoiluncertainty, inflation, cybersecurity incidents, and political unrest or hostilities, including the threat of future terrorist attacks, could affect the economies of the U.S. and other countries. Lower levels of economic activity could result in declines in energy consumption, including declines inreduce the demand for and consumption of our products, which could cause our revenues and margins to decline, and limit our future growth prospects.prospects and affect our capital allocation decisions. Inflation could negatively impact our operating costs and increased product prices could result
in demand destruction. Refining, renewable diesel, and ethanol margins also can be significantly impacted by additional conversionchanges in the worldwide production capacity throughof such products, whether due to the expansion, closure, or transition of existing facilities, or the construction of new refineries or plants. Worldwide refiningfacilities, and those product margins will be adversely affected if the worldwide production capacity expansions may result in refining production capability exceeding refined petroleum product demand, which would have an adverse effect on refining margins.for such products exceeds demand.
A significant portion of our profitability is derived from the ability to purchase and process crude oil feedstocks that historically have been cheaper than benchmark crude oils, such as Louisiana Light Sweet (LLS) and Brent crude oils. These crude oil feedstock differentials vary significantly depending on overall economic conditions and trends and conditions within the markets for crude oil and refined petroleum products and have declined. Previous declines in certain periods, as was the case for much of 2020, and could again decline in the future. Previous declinessuch differentials have had, and any future declines wouldwill likely again have, a negative impact on our results of operations.
Legal, technological,Industry and politicalother developments, and evolving market sentiment, regarding fuel efficiencyfossil fuels and low-carbon fuel standardsGHG emissions, may decrease the demand for our products and could adversely affect our performance.
Many state, provincial, and national governments across the world have imposed, and may impose in the future, increases in fuel economy standards, low-carbon fuel standards, restrictions on vehicles using petroleum-based fuel, and other policies or regulations (such as tax incentives or subsidies) aimed at steering the public towards less petroleum-dependent modes of transportation, which could reduce demand for our products. For example, in September 2020 the governor of California issued an executive order seeking to require that sales of all new passenger vehicles be zero-emission by 2035 and medium to heavy duty vehicles be zero-emission by 2045 where feasible. The executive order also requires state agencies to build out sufficient electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Other governmental authorities, such as the U.K. and Quebec, have also announced intentions to adopt similar restrictions with respect to the sale of new combustion-engine vehicles. A reduction in the demand for our products could also result from a shifttransition by consumers to alternative fuel vehicles, such as electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid vehicles, whether as a result of technologicalgovernment mandates or scientific advances,incentives, industry developments, or consumer or investor sentiment towards our productsfossil fuels and their relationship to the environment,GHG emissions. New developments may make alternative fuel vehicles more affordable or legislation or regulation mandating or encouraging the usedesirable, including improvements in battery and storage technology, increases in driving ranges, increased availability of charging stations and other infrastructure, expanded and more reliable supply chains, increased inventory, and improvements in hydrogen fuel cell technology. Any such developments could increase consumer acceptance and result in greater market penetration of alternative energy sources. It is not possible at this time to predict the ultimate form, timing, or extent of any such governmental, consumer, or investor actions. However, a reduction in the demand for our products as a result of any of the foregoing events could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.fuel vehicles.
Developments with respect to low-carbon fuel policies and the market for alternative fuels may affect demand for our renewable fuels and could adversely affect our financial performance.
Low-carbon fuel policies, blending credits, and stricter fuel efficiency standards to help reach GHG emissions reduction targets help drive demand for our renewable fuels. Any changes to, a failure to enforce, or a discontinuation of any of these policies, goals, and initiatives could have a material adverse effect on our renewable fuels businesses. Similarly, new or changing technologies may be developed, consumers may shift to alternative fuels or alternative fuel vehicles (such as electric or hybrid vehicles) other than the renewable fuels we produce, and thereThere may be new entrants into the renewablelow-carbon fuels production industry that could meet demand for lower-carbon transportation fuels and modes of transportation in a more efficient or less costly manner than our technologies and products, which could also have a material adverse effect on our renewable fuels businesses.products. For instance,example, several other refinerscompanies have made, or announced interest in making, investments in renewable diesel projects. ShouldAs these projects develop, we wouldwill face competition from them for feedstocks and customers. While such developments are currently uncertain, a reduction in the demand for our renewable fuels or increased competition for waste and renewable feedstocks and customers, which could reduce our product margins and limit the growth and profitability of our low-carbon fuels businesses. While it is not currently possible to predict the ultimate form, timing, or extent of any such developments, any such event could materially and adversely affect our business, financial performance.condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
Investor sentimentSentiment towards climate change, fossil fuels, GHG emissions, environmental justice, and other ESG matters could adversely affect our business and cost of capital, and the price of our stock and other securities.capital.
There have been efforts inIn recent years, whicha number of advocacy groups, both in the U.S. and internationally, have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, aimedcampaigned for government and private action to promote climate and other ESG-related change, particularly at thepublic companies, through investment community, includingand voting practices of investment advisors, sovereign wealth funds, public pension funds, universities,endowments, and other groups, to promotestockholders. These activities have included promoting the divestment of securities of energyfossil fuel companies as well as to pressureand pressuring lenders, insurers, and other financial services companies to limit or curtail activities with energyfossil fuel companies. As a result, some financial intermediaries, investors, and other capital markets participants have reduced or ceased lending to, or investing in, or insuring companies that operate in industries with higher perceived environmental exposure, such as the energyfossil fuel industry. For example, in December 2020, the state
of New York announced that it will be divesting the state’s Common Retirement Fund from fossil fuels. If thisthese or similar divestment efforts are continued, the price of our common stock or debt securities, and our ability to access capital markets or to otherwise obtain new investment, financing, or financing,to fully insure our operations may be negatively impacted.
Members ofThese activities have also aimed to increase the investment community are alsoattention on and demand for action related to various ESG matters, which has contributed to increasing theirsocietal, investor, and legislative focus and pressure on ESG practices and disclosures, including practices and disclosuresthose related to GHGs and climate change, inGHG emissions targets, business
resilience under the energy industry in particular, andassumptions of demand-constrained scenarios, net-zero ambitions, transition plans, actions related to diversity and inclusion, initiativespolitical activities, racial equity audits, and governance standardsstandards. For example, ESG-focused stockholder activism has been increasing in the fossil fuel industry and has resulted in more frequent attempts to effect business or governance changes through mechanisms such as stockholder proposals, vote-no campaigns, and exempt proxy solicitations, among companies more generally.others. As a result, we mayhave faced and expect to continue to face increasing pressure regarding our ESG practices and disclosures. Additionally, membersdisclosures, including our methodologies and timelines with respect thereto, negative publicity, and demands for ESG-focused engagement from investors and stakeholders. Investors, stakeholders, and other interested parties are also increasingly focusing on issues related to environmental justice. This has resulted and is likely to continue to result in increased scrutiny, protests, and negative publicity with respect to our business and operations, and those of our counterparties, which could in turn result in the investment communitycancellation or delay of projects, the revocation or delay of permits, termination of contracts, lawsuits, regulatory action, and policy change that may screenadversely affect our business strategy, increase our costs, and adversely affect our reputation and financial performance.
Responding to such ESG-focused activism has been and will likely continue to be costly and time-consuming. Such response efforts could also result in the implementation of certain ESG practices or disclosures that may present a heightened level of legal and regulatory risk, or that threaten our credibility with other investors and stakeholders. The methodologies and standards for tracking and reporting on ESG matters are relatively new, have not been standardized, and continue to evolve. As a result, our ESG-related disclosures, metrics, and targets may not necessarily be calculated in the same manner or comparable to similarly titled measures presented by us in other contexts, or by other companies suchor third-party estimates. While we believe that our ESG disclosures and methodologies reflect our business strategy and are reasonable at the time made or used, as ours forour business or applicable methodologies, standards, or regulations develop and evolve, we may revise or cease reporting or using certain disclosures and methodologies if we determine that they are no longer advisable or appropriate. If our ESG performance before investingdisclosures and methodologies are or are perceived by government authorities, investors, or stakeholders to be inadequate, inaccurate, or non-compliant with applicable standards or regulations, or if we discover material inaccuracies therein, our reputation could be negatively impacted, and we could be exposed to litigation and other regulatory actions.
Some capital markets participants are increasingly using ESG as a factor in their assessments, which could impact our common stockcost of capital or debt securities, or lendingaccess to us. Over the past few years therefinancing. There has also been an acceleration in investor demand for ESG investing opportunities, and many large institutional investors have committed to increasing the percentage of their portfolios that are allocated towards ESG-focused investments. As a result, there has been a proliferation of ESG-focused investment funds and market participants seeking ESG-oriented investment products.
There has also been an increase in third-party providers of company ESG ratings, and an increase in ESG-focused voting policies among proxy advisory firms, portfolio managers, and institutional investors. Such ESG ratings and voting policies often differ based on the provider and are continually changing. Recently, backlash from certain governments and investors against ESG funds and investment practices has resulted in increased scrutiny and withdrawals from such funds. Such backlash has also resulted in “anti-ESG” focused activism and investment funds, which may result in additional strains on company resources. If we are unable to meet the ESG standards or investment, lending, ratings, or lendingvoting criteria and policies set by these investors and funds,parties, we may lose investors, investors may allocate a portion of their capital away from us, we may face increased ESG-focused activism, our cost of capital may increase, the price of our common stock and debt securities may be negatively impacted, and our reputation may also be negatively affected.
Our operations depend on natural gas and reliable electricity, and such dependency could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
Our operations depend on the use of natural gas and reliable electricity. We consume a significant volume of natural gas and a significant amount of electricity to operate our refineries and plants, and natural gas and electricity prices have a large effect on the cost of our operations. We also purchase other commodities whose price may vary depending on the prices of natural gas or electricity. Prices for both natural gas and electricity can be volatile and therefore represent ongoing challenges to our operating results. Additionally, the availability of natural gas and electricity can be affected by numerous events such as weather (e.g., hurricanes and periods of considerable heat or cold, like Winter Storm Uri in 2021), pipeline and other logistics interruptions, electric grid outages, cybersecurity incidents, intermittent electricity generation (particularly from wind and solar), hostilities, sanctions, and supply and demand imbalances for electricity and natural gas. For example, the real-time market structure of the primary grid provider in Texas exposes many of our refineries and operations located in Texas to “scarcity pricing” during periods of supply and demand imbalance. As electrification continues to grow, or if there are increased restrictions or costs imposed on the ability of utilities or power suppliers to utilize certain energy sources (such as through restrictions on fossil fuel or nuclear-generated electricity or ESG pressure not to use such sources of electricity generation), there will likely be increased strains on, and risks to the integrity, reliability, and resilience of electrical grids, and increased volatility and tightness in natural gas and electricity supplies across the world, and such events could negatively affect the cost, reliability, and availability of our natural gas and electricity supplies. Increased electrification will also likely increase the intermittency and variability of electricity and power supplies, which would exacerbate the foregoing challenges. Additionally, increased government regulations and public opposition to pipeline construction and electricity generation and transmission projects may result in the underinvestment in, or unavailability of, the infrastructure and logistics assets needed to obtain natural gas feedstocks and electricity in a reliable and cost-efficient manner. Although we actively manage these costs through contracting and hedging our exposure to price volatility as appropriate, and by pursuing projects that reduce our reliance on third parties and fortify the resilience of our assets, increases in prices for natural gas and electricity, or disruptions to our supply thereof, could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
Disruption of our ability to obtain crude oil, renderedwaste and recycled materials,renewable feedstocks, corn, and other feedstocks could adversely affect our operations.operations.
A significant portion ofWe source our refining feedstock requirements is satisfied through supplies originating inthroughout the Middle East, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America.world. We are, therefore, subject to the political, geographic, and economic risks attendant to doing business with suppliers located in, and supplies originating from, thesediverse areas. If one or more of our supply contracts were terminated, or if political or other events were to disrupt our traditional feedstock supply, we believe that adequate alternative supplies would be available, but it is possible that we would be unable to find adequate or optimal alternative sources of supply. Our refineries and plants without access to waterborne deliveries or offtake must rely on rail, pipeline, or ground transportation and thus may be more susceptible to such risks. If we are unable to obtain adequate or optimal volumes or are able to obtain such volumes only at unfavorable prices, our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity could be materially adversely affected, including from reduced sales volumes of products or reduced margins as a result of higher costs.
In addition, the The U.S. government can also prevent or restrict us from doing business in or with other countries. For instance,example, U.S. sanctions with respect toconcerning Russia, Iran, and Venezuela currently limit, but not necessarily ban, the ability of most U.S. companies to engage in oil transactions involving these countries. These restrictions,U.S. and thoseother government sanctions and actions by governments and private market participants to refrain from purchasing or transporting crude oil and petroleum-based products from particular countries
(such as in response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict) have impacted and may continue to impact trade flows, and have limited and may continue to limit our ability to gain access to business opportunities in various countries. Actions by both the U.S. and other countries have affected our operations in the past and will continue to do so in the future.
WhileAlthough Darling, ourthe other joint venture partnermember in DGD, supplies some of DGD’s waste feedstock at competitive pricing, DGD must still secure a significant amount of supplyits waste and renewable feedstock requirements from other sources. Should Darling’s supply be disrupted or should supply from other sources become limited or only available aton unfavorable terms, DGD could be required to develop alternate sources of supply. Whilesupply, and it could be required to increase its utilization of waste and renewable feedstocks that produce lower margin products. As the volume of renewable diesel produced continues to increase, the competition for waste and renewable feedstocks will likely increase, which could place downward pressure on the margins associated with our Renewable Diesel segment’s products. DGD does not believewill also likely be required to satisfy a greater amount of its waste and renewable feedstock supplies from international sources as the competition for these feedstocks continues to increase, which would increase its exposure to the political, geographic, regulatory, and economic risks attendant to doing business with suppliers located in, and supplies originating from, such areas. Should DGD’s feedstock supply is likely to be disrupted, such an event could have an adverseadversely impact on DGD’s,its and therefore our business, financial position,condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
Our ethanolEthanol segment relies on corn sourced from local farmers and commercial elevators in the Mid-Continent region of the U.S. As a result, the feedstockcorn supply offor our ethanolEthanol segment is acutely exposed to the effects that weather and other environmental events occurring in that region as well as applicable governmental policies such as farming subsidies, can have on the amount or timing of crop production. Crop production can also be affected by government policies (such as farming subsidies) and by market factors (such as changes in fertilizer prices). Any reduction or delay in crop production from these or similar events could reduce and disrupt the supply of, or otherwise increase our costs to obtain, feedstockscorn for our ethanolEthanol segment.
We are subject to risks arising from our operations outside the U.S. and generally to worldwide political and economic developments.
We operate and sell some of our products outside of the U.S., particularly in Canada, Europe, Mexico, Peru, and the U.K. Our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity could be negatively impacted by disruptions in any of these markets, including due to expropriation or impoundment of assets, failure of foreign governments and state-owned entities to honor their contracts, property disputes, economic instability, restrictions on the transfer of funds, duties and tariffs, profits, windfall, or other taxes or penalties, transportation delays, import and export controls, labor unrest, security issues involving key personnel and government decisions, orders, mandates, investigations, regulations, issuances or revocations of permits and other authorizations, the effects of military conflicts, and changing regulatory and political environments. The occurrence of any such event could result in the halting, curtailing, or cessation of operations at impacted facilities, commercial restrictions, delay or cancellation of projects, increased costs, fines, penalties, or otherwise reduce our profitability and result in a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity. We have experienced certain of these events in the past and expect to experience additional events in the future. We are also required to comply with U.S. and international laws and regulations. Actual or alleged violations of these laws could disrupt our business, cause us to incur significant legal expenses, and result in a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
We are subject to interruptions and increased costs as a result of logistical disruptions and our reliance on third-party transportation of crude oil and other feedstocks and the products that we manufacture.
WeIn addition to our own logistic assets, we use the services of third parties to transport feedstocks to our refineries and plants and to transport theour products we manufacture to market. If we experience prolonged interruptions of supply or increases in costs to deliver our products to market, or if the ability of the pipelines, vessels, trucks, or railroadslogistics assets used to transport our feedstocks or products is disrupted because of weather events, water levels of key waterways for trade, rail disruptions, cybersecurity incidents, accidents, derailments, collisions, fires, explosions, governmental regulations,spills, public health crises, hostilities, or other government or third-party actions (including protests), it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position,condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
Competitors that produce their own supply of feedstocks, own their own retail sites, or have greater financial resources or provide alternative energy sources may have a competitive advantage.advantage.
The refining and marketing industry is highly competitive with respect to both feedstock supply and refined petroleum product markets. We compete with many companies for available supplies of crude oil and other feedstocks, and for third-party retail sitesoutlets for our refined petroleum products. We do not produce any of our crude oilprimary feedstocks and we do not have a company-owned retail network. ManySome of our competitors, however, obtain a significant portion of their feedstocks from company-owned production and some have extensive networks of retail sites. Such competitors are at times able to offset losses from refiningliquid transportation fuels production operations with profits from producing or retailingsuch other operations, and they may be better positioned to withstand periods of depressed refiningproduct margins or feedstock shortages.
disruptions. Some of our competitors also have materially greater financial and other resources than we have. Such competitorshave and may have a greater ability to bear the economic risks inherent in all phases of our industry. In addition, we compete with other industries that provide alternative means to satisfy the energy and fuel requirements of our industrial, commercial, and individual consumers.
A significantAn interruption in one or more of our refineries or renewable diesel or ethanol plants could adversely affect our business.
Our refineries, renewable diesel plant,plants, and ethanol plants are our principal operating assets. As a result, ourassets and are subject to planned and unplanned downtime and interruptions. Our operations could also be subject to significant interruption if one or more of our refineries or plants were to experience a major accident or mechanical failure, be damaged by severe weather or other natural disasters (such as hurricanes) or man-made disaster, suchdisasters (such as an actcybersecurity incidents or acts of terrorism,terrorism), or otherwise be forced to shut down.down or curtail operations. If any refinery or plant, or related pipeline or terminal, were to experience an interruption in operations, our earnings from the refinery or plant could be materially and adversely affected (to the extent not recoverable through insurance) because of lost productionproductivity and repair and other costs. Significant interruptions in our refining, renewable diesel, or ethanol systemsoperations could also lead to increased volatility in prices for crude oil, rendered and recycled materials, corn,the price of our feedstocks and many of our products. We have experienced certain of these events in the past, and although we focus on maintaining safe, stable, and reliable operations, we may experience additional events in the future.
Large capital projects can take many years to complete, and the political and regulatory environments or other market conditions couldmay change or deteriorate over time, negatively impacting project returns.
We may engage in capital projects based on the forecasted project economics, political and level ofregulatory environments, and the expected return on the capital to be employed in the project.employed. Large-scale projects take many years to complete, during which time the political and regulatory environment or other market conditions canmay change from our forecast. Supply chain disruptions may also delay projects or increase the costs associated therewith. As a result, we may be unable tonot fully realize our expected returns, which could negatively impact our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.liquidity.
Our investments in joint ventures and other entities decrease our ability to manage risk.
We conduct some of our operations through joint ventures in which we may share control over certain economic, legal, and business interests with ourother joint venture partners.members. We also conduct some of our operations through entities in which we have a minority or no ownership. Ourequity ownership interest, such as the variable interest entities (VIEs) described in Note 11 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. The other joint venture partnersmembers and the third-party equity holders of the VIEs may have economic, business, or legal interests, opportunities, or goals that are inconsistent with or different from our opportunities, goals, and interests, or may have different liquidity needs or financial condition characteristics than our own, be subject to different legal or contractual obligations than we are, or be unable to meet their obligations. For instance,example, while we operate the DGD PlantPlants and perform certain day-to-day operating and management functions for DGD as an independent contractor, we do not have full control with respect toof every aspect of DGD’s business and certain large actionssignificant decisions concerning DGD, including, among others, the acquisition or disposition of assets above a certain value threshold, making certain changes to DGD’s business plan, raising debt or equity capital, DGD’s distribution policy, and entering into particular transactions, which currentlyalso require certain approvals from Darling. Additionally, although we consolidate certain VIEs, we do not have full control of every aspect of these VIEs, or the actions taken by their third-party equity holders, some of which may affect our business, legal position, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity. Failure by us, or an entity in which we have a joint venture interest, or the VIEs to adequately manage the risks associated with joint ventures,such entities, and any differences in views among us and ourother joint venture partners, whichmembers or the third-party equity holders in the VIEs, could prevent or delay actions that are in the best interest of us, or the joint venture, or the VIE, and could have a material adverse effect on our or our joint ventures’, financial position,condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
We may incur losses and additional costs as a result of our forward-contract activities and derivative transactions.hedging transactions.
We currently use commodity derivative instruments, and we expect to continue their use in the future. If the instruments we use to hedge our exposure to various types of risk are not effective or increase our exposure to unexpected events or risks, we may incur losses. In addition, we may be required to incur additional costs in connection with any future regulation of derivative instruments to the extent it is applicable to us.
Public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic have had and may continue to have, adverse impacts on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
The economic effects from the COVID-19 pandemic on our business were and may again be significant. Although our business has recovered since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, there continues to be uncertainty and unpredictability about the lingering impacts to the worldwide economy that could negatively affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity in future periods. The extent to which the pandemic and its effects may adversely impact our future business, financial condition, and results of operations, and for what duration and magnitude, depends on factors that are continuing to evolve, are difficult to predict and, in many instances, are beyond our control. The ultimate outcome of these and other factors may result in many adverse consequences including, but not limited to, reduced availability of critical staff, disruption or delays to supply chains for critical equipment or feedstock, reduced economic activity that negatively impacts demand for our products, and increased administrative, compliance, and operational costs. In addition, future public health crises could also result in significant economic disruption and other effects that adversely impact our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity in future periods in ways similar to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects. The adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic had, and may continue to have, the effect of precipitating or heightening many of the other risks described in this section.
Legal, Governmental,Government, and Regulatory Risks
ComplianceLegal, political, and regulatory developments regarding climate, GHG emissions, or the environment could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
Many government authorities across the world have imposed, and may impose in the future, policies or regulations designed to facilitate less petroleum-dependent modes of transportation (e.g., increases in fuel economy standards, low-carbon fuel standards, restrictions and bans on vehicles using liquid fuels, tariffs, tax incentives, and subsidies), which could reduce demand for our petroleum-based products and/or all liquid transportation fuels. For example, CARB has approved a series of regulations designed to phase out sales of internal combustion engine vehicles in California. As of December 2022, CARB updated its Scoping Plan to identify strategies to achieve statewide carbon neutrality by 2045, including measures to reduce fossil fuel consumption in California by 94 percent by mandating alternative fuel vehicles. Other government authorities across the world, such as the U.K., Canada, and other U.S. states have also announced plans and/or restrictions regarding the sale of new internal combustion engine vehicles and/or limitations on or penalties for the use of petroleum products and GHG emissions.
The U.S. federal government under the current presidential administration has also been aggressive in the scope, magnitude, and number of actions it has taken to address GHG emissions, including efforts to limit petroleum-dependent modes of transportation. For example, in January 2021, the current administration issued an executive order calling for a “whole of government” approach to climate change and environmental justice that seeks to organize and deploy the full capacity of the U.S. federal government in novel and coordinated ways that attempt to reduce GHG emissions and the use of most petroleum-based products. The current administration has also issued a number of other related executive orders, including orders requiring agencies to review environmental actions taken by the previous administration and directing the U.S. federal government to use its scale and procurement power to achieve a number of aspirational net-zero emissions goals, including, among others, 100 percent zero-emission vehicle acquisitions by 2035 and 100 percent zero-emission light-duty vehicle acquisitions by 2027.
These actions have contributed to a number of U.S. federal rulemakings aimed at regulating transportation GHG emissions, many of which ignore or downplay the full life cycle carbon footprint of EVs, and thereby seek to inappropriately advantage them over internal combustion engine vehicles. For example, in December 2021, the EPA finalized its “Revised 2023 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards,” revising the GHG emissions standards for light-duty vehicles for 2023 and later model years at a level that cannot be achieved by internal combustion engine vehicles through improvements in combustion efficiency. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also finalized a rule in May 2022 increasing the corporate average fuel economy and carbon dioxide standards for certain passenger cars and light-duty trucks such that automakers cannot demonstrate compliance without increasing the use of EVs. Together, these federal regulations seek to increase the market penetration of EVs and other alternative fuel vehicles, such that these vehicles would be expected to comprise 17 percent of model year 2026 passenger vehicle sales. The EPA states that its final rule is projected to reduce gasoline consumption by more than 360 billion gallons by 2050, reaching a 15 percent reduction in annual U.S. gasoline consumption in 2050. Moreover, the EPA has indicated that it intends in the near future to pursue more stringent GHG emissions standards for model year 2027 and later passenger vehicles and to seek GHG emissions reductions for medium and heavy-duty vehicles pursuant to its “Clean Truck Plan.” Additionally, in July 2022, the Federal Highway Administration proposed rules that would require certain U.S. state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to establish declining carbon dioxide emissions targets for motor vehicle tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions that align with the current administration’s net-zero targets. The IRA, which was
passed in August 2022, also includes substantial subsidies to promote EVs and other alternative fuel vehicles.
In addition to these U.S. federal measures, in March 2022, the EPA reinstated a waiver of preemption (which is currently subject to legal challenge) under federal law authorizing California to implement its “Advanced Clean Cars I” rule requiring sales of increasing percentages of alternative fuel vehicles, thereby also reviving other U.S. states’ ability to adopt standards identical to California’s. In November 2022, California approved its “Advanced Clean Cars II” rulemaking, which similarly requires an increasing percentage of zero-emission light-duty vehicle sales through 2035, at which time 100 percent of light-duty vehicle sales in California must be zero-emission vehicles. This rulemaking will be subject to a grant of a waiver of preemption by the EPA, as was recently reinstated for the Advanced Clean Cars I program. Several other states have already adopted or are expected to adopt these zero-emission vehicle mandates. California has also indicated that it intends to pursue similar zero-emission vehicle mandates for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles via its “Advanced Clean Fleets” rulemaking that is currently under development, and it is foreseeable that the EPA may waive preemption to allow these rules to take effect in California and in those states that elect to follow the California program.
Moreover, in 2005, the Kyoto Protocol to the 1992 United Nations (U.N.) Framework Convention on Climate Change, which establishes a binding set of GHG emissions targets, became binding on all countries that had ratified it. In 2015, the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris resulted in the creation of the Paris Agreement, which requires countries to review and “represent a progression” in their nationally determined contributions, which set emissions reduction goals every five years beginning in 2020. The terms of the Paris Agreement and the other executive orders and regulations discussed above are expected to result in additional regulatory actions, which could have a material adverse effect on our business. Incentives to conserve energy or use alternative energy sources in many locations where we currently operate, or may operate in the future, could negatively impact our business. Government authorities across the world are also considering, or have announced, profits or windfall taxes or penalties on fossil fuel companies, or have announced or imposed GHG emissions fees or changes that are adverse to refinery operations. For example, in environmental laws, includingSeptember 2022, the EU passed legislation imposing a profits tax and penalty on certain fossil fuel companies, and similar taxes and penalties have been proposed in California.
These and other legal, political, regulatory, and international accord matters and developments regarding climate change, GHG or other air emissions, fuel efficiency, or the environment, including executive orders that mandate or encourage the use of electric, hybrid, and other alternative fuel vehicles or discourage or ban the use of internal combustion engine vehicles, may increase consumer preferences for, and adoption of, alternative fuel vehicles and decrease demand for our liquid fuels. These legal, political, and regulatory developments, as well as other similarly focused laws and regulations, such as, among others, the California and Quebec cap-and-trade programs, the U.K. Emissions Trading Scheme, the U.K. Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Rule 1109.1 – Emissions of Oxides of Nitrogen from Petroleum Refineries and Related Operations, CARB’s Control Measure for Ocean-Going Vessels At Berth Rule, reductions in the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, bans or restrictions on certain chemicals or processes, and other laws related to climate, changeGHG emissions, environmental, health, or safety matters could result in increased costs and capital expenditures, among other impacts, to (i) operate and maintain our facilities, (ii) install new emission controls at our facilities, and (iii) administer and manage any emissions or blending programs, including obtaining emission credits, allowances, or allotments. Such risks are particularly acute in California due to the pace and scope of anti-fossil fuel developments there.
Many of these legal, political, regulatory, and international accord matters and developments are subject to considerable uncertainty due to a number of factors, including technological and economic feasibility, legal challenges, and potential changes in law, regulation, or policy, and it is not currently possible to predict the ultimate effects of these matters and developments on us. However, a reduction in the demand for our products or an increase in costs or capital expenditures as a result of any of the foregoing events could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity. Such events could cause us to make changes with respect to our business plan, strategy, operations, and assets, that may impact our business and financial performance, including our current financial and accounting estimates and assumptions, and could result in negative publicity and litigation, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
The Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs, and other regulations, policies, and standards impacting the demand for low-carbon fuels could adversely affect our performance.
As described under “ITEMS 1. and 2. BUSINESS AND PROPERTIES—OUR COMPREHENSIVE LIQUID FUELS STRATEGY—Regulations, Policies, and Standards Driving Low-Carbon Fuel Demand,” government authorities across the world have issued, or are considering issuing, low-carbon fuel regulations, policies, and standards to help reduce GHG emissions and increase the percentage of low-carbon fuels in the transportation fuel mix. We strategically market our low-carbon fuels based on regional policies, feedstock preferences, CI scores, and our ability to obtain fuel pathways. A significant portion of our low-carbon fuels are sold in California, Canada, and Europe. Regarding the RFS, in December 2022, the EPA proposed a rule that would increase RVOs for 2023, 2024, and 2025. In a significant departure from the historical operation and intent of the RFS, the proposed rule would also allocate new RINs from renewable electricity used to power EVs and other alternative fuel vehicles (known as “eRINs”) to the vehicle manufacturer.
We are exposed to the volatility in the market price of RINs, LCFS credits, and other credits, as described in Note 19 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. We cannot predict the future prices of RINs, LCFS credits, or other credits. Prices for RINs, LCFS credits, and other credits are dependent upon a variety of factors, including, as applicable, EPA and state regulations, regulations of other countries and jurisdictions, the availability of RINs, LCFS credits, and other credits for purchase, transportation fuel production levels (which can vary significantly each quarter), approved CI pathways, and CI scores. The principalultimate outcome of the recently proposed RVOs, RFS changes, and small refinery exemption (SRE) petition denials may also affect RIN prices. For example, the EPA’s proposal to allow EV manufacturers to generate cellulosic biofuel (D3) eRINs based on contracts for renewable electricity and to establish aggressive volume obligations based on anticipated levels of eRIN generation may result in pricing volatility, based on the small number of entities that will have control over eRIN generation coupled with the absence of a robust D3 RIN bank due to previously low production volumes of cellulosic biofuel. If the RVOs for cellulosic biofuel are high relative to D3 RIN generation, RIN prices may rise, and the EPA may or may not issue cellulosic waiver credits in time to moderate prices spikes or at all. If an insufficient number of RINs, LCFS credits, or other credits is available for purchase (or available only at increased prices), or if we are otherwise unable to meet the EPA’s RFS mandates or our other obligations under the Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs (for example, if there were to be demand destruction for gasoline, diesel, and renewable fuels resulting from displacement of internal combustion engine vehicles with EVs that results in production falling short of established RVOs, an acceleration of the blendwall, or other significant deviations from projected volumes), our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity could be adversely affected.
In addition to the RFS and LCFS, we operate in multiple jurisdictions that have issued, or are considering issuing, similar low-carbon fuel regulations, policies, and standards, such as the CFR. The RFS, LCFS, and similar U.S. state and international low-carbon fuel regulations, policies, and standards are extremely complex, often have different or conflicting requirements or methodologies, and are frequently evolving, requiring us to periodically update our systems and controls to maintain compliance and monitoring, which could require significant expenditures, and presents an increased risk of administrative error. Our low-carbon fuels businesses could be materially and adversely affected if (i) these regulations, policies, and standards are adversely changed, not enforced, or discontinued, (ii) the benefits therefrom (such as Section 45Q and Section 45Z tax credits, the blender’s tax credit, and other incentives) are reduced, (iii) any of the products we produce are deemed not to qualify for compliance therewith, or (iv) we are unable to satisfy or maintain any approved pathways. Such changes could also negatively impact the economic assumptions and projections with respect to many of our low-carbon projects and could have a material adverse impact on the timing of completion, project returns, and other outcomes with respect to such projects.
Applicable environmental, risks associated withhealth, and safety laws could adversely affect our operations are emissions into the air and releases into the soil, surface water, or groundwater. performance.
Our operations are subject to extensive environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations, including those relating to the discharge of materials into the environment, waste management, pollution prevention measures, GHG emissions, and characteristics and composition of fuels, including gasoline and diesel.fuels. Certain of these laws and regulations could impose obligations to conduct assessment or remediation efforts at our refineries and plants, as well as at formerly owned properties or third-party sites where we have taken wastes for disposal or where our wastes may have migrated. The principal environmental risks associated with our operations are emissions into the air, handling of waste, and releases into the soil, surface water, or groundwater. Environmental laws and regulations also may impose liability on us for the conduct of third parties or for actions that complied with applicable requirements when taken, regardless of negligence or fault. If we violate or fail to comply with these laws and regulations, we could be fined or otherwise sanctioned.
Because environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations are becoming more stringent and new environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations are continuously being enacted or proposed, such as those relating to GHG emissions and climate change, the level of expenditures required for environmental matters could increase in the future. Shortly after taking office in January 2021, President Biden issued a series of executive orders designed to address climate change. President Biden has also signed an executive order requiring agencies to review environmental actions taken by the previous administration, and the current administration has issued a memorandum to departments and agencies to refrain from proposing or issuing rules until a departmental or agency head appointed or designated by the current administration has reviewed and approved the rule. President Biden’s executive orders, as well as the U.S.’s reentry into the Paris Agreement as discussed below, may result in the development of additional regulations or changes to existing regulations.
Current and future legislative action and regulatory initiatives could result in increased difficulty in obtaining permits, changes to operating permits, material changes in operations, increased capital expenditures and operating costs, increased costs of the goods we sell,our products, and decreased demand for our products, that cannot be assessed with certainty at this time. We may be required to make expenditures to modify operations, discontinue the use of certain process units,assets, feedstocks, chemicals, or products, or install or modify pollution control or other equipment that could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity. We may also face liability for personal injury, property, and natural resource damage, environmental justice impacts, or clean-up costs due to actual or alleged emissions, pollution, contamination, and/or exposure to, or regulation of, chemicals or other regulated materials, such as various perfluorinated compounds, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, benzene, MTBE, and petroleum hydrocarbons, at or from our current and formerly owned facilities. Such liability or expenditures could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
For example, in 2015,Litigation, regulatory proceedings, and mandatory disclosure requirements related to climate change and other ESG matters, or aimed at the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. participated in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, which led to the creation of the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement, which was signed by the U.S. in April 2016, requires countries to review and “represent a progression” in their intended nationally determined contributions (which set GHG emission reduction goals) every five years beginning in 2020. In November 2019, the previous administration served notice on the United Nations that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Agreement, which ultimately occurred in 2020. However, on January 20, 2021, President Biden signed an instrument that reverses this withdrawal, and the U.S. formally rejoined the Paris Agreement on February 19, 2021. The U.S.’s reentry into the Paris Agreement may result in the development of additional regulations or changes to existing regulations. Additionally, the Paris Agreement mayfossil fuel industry, could adversely affect our operations in Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Latin America. Restrictions on emissions of methane or carbon dioxide that have been or may be imposed in various U.S. states, at the U.S. federal level, or in other countries could also adversely affect the oil and gas industry.performance.
We could also face increased climate‐related litigation with respect to our operations, disclosures, or products. GovernmentalGovernments and other entities in various U.S. states such as California and New Yorkprivate parties across the world have filed lawsuits or initiated regulatory action against coal, gas, oil,fossil fuel companies. Such lawsuits and petroleum companies. The lawsuitsactions often allege non-compliance with applicable laws or
regulations, or damages as a result of climate change, and the plaintiffs seek damages andand/or abatement under various tort and other theories. Similar lawsuits and regulatory actions may be filedbrought in these and other jurisdictions. While weGovernments and private parties are currently not a partyalso increasingly filing lawsuits or initiating regulatory action based on allegations that certain public statements and disclosures by companies regarding climate change and other ESG matters are false and misleading “greenwashing” that violate deceptive trade practices, consumer protection statutes, or other similar laws and regulations, or are fraudulent or misleading under applicable corporate, securities, stock exchange, or other similar laws and regulations. Similar issues can also arise relating to any of these lawsuits, theyaspirational statements such as net-zero or carbon neutrality targets that are made without an adequate basis to support such statements. Such suits or actions present a high degree of uncertainty regarding the extent to which energyfossil fuel companies face an increased risk of liability stemming from climate change or other ESG matters.
In addition to voluntary disclosures in response to investor and stakeholder requests, many governments have also proposed or adopted regulations that impose disclosure obligations with respect to various climate change and other ESG matters. For example, in March 2022, the SEC proposed sweeping and novel disclosure obligations with respect to climate change and GHG emissions reporting for U.S. publicly-traded companies. Also, in November 2022, various U.S. federal agencies jointly proposed an amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation that would require government contractors to publicly disclose their GHG emissions, respond to a climate disclosure questionnaire, and set and disclose GHG emissions reduction goals, in each case based on or utilizing specified private third-party frameworks or standards that have not been widely adopted. Other countries where we operate or do business, such as the U.K., have also recently passed laws requiring, or announced their intention to mandate, various climate disclosures and targets by companies. Some governments have also adopted regulations, or are launching investigations and requesting information, based on pricing practices in the fossil fuel industry. For example, in September 2022, California adopted the Oil Refinery Cost Disclosure Act (SB 1322), which will require refineries in California to report monthly on the volume and cost of the crude oil they buy, the quantity and price of the wholesale gasoline they sell, and the gross gasoline margin per barrel, among other information, some or all of which data could become publicly available. Our efforts to comply with these and other requests and regulations could subject us to risk would also adversely impactby requiring disclosure of information that (i) is protected trade secrets and/or competitively sensitive information, (ii) exposes us to litigation and government investigations related to anti-trust laws or other applicable pricing or non-disclosure laws or obligations, (iii) is inconsistent with other government regulations or our current disclosures that may utilize different methodologies or standards, and (iv) can be used to advance agendas that disfavor the oil and gasfossil fuel industry.
Compliance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) could adversely affect our performance.
The U.S. EPA has implemented the RFS pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The RFS program sets annual quotas for the quantity of renewable fuels that must be blended into transportation fuels consumed in the U.S. A Renewable Identification Number (RIN) is assigned to each gallon of renewable fuel produced in or imported into the U.S. As a producer of petroleum-based transportation fuels, we are obligated to blend renewable fuels
into the products we produce at a rate that is at least commensurate to the U.S. EPA’s quota and, to the extent we do not, we must purchase RINs in the market to satisfy our obligation under the RFS program. The U.S. EPA missed its November 30, 2020, statutory deadline to set the 2021 renewable volume obligations (RVOs) establishing the volume of renewable fuels refiners must blend into their fuel mix in 2021 and, to date, has not issued a proposed rule for the 2021 RVO. While there are statutory targets still in place, the ultimate RVO for 2021 and the potential costs associated therewith remain uncertain until the RVO is set.
We are exposed to the volatility in the market price of RINs. We cannot predict the future prices of RINs. RINs prices are dependent upon a variety of factors, including U.S. EPA regulations, the availability of RINs for purchase, and levels of transportation fuels produced, which can vary significantly from quarter to quarter. The ultimate outcome of the 2021 RVO rule will also likely affect RIN prices. If sufficient RINs are unavailable for purchase, if we have to pay a significantly higher price for RINs, or if we are otherwise unable to meet the U.S. EPA’s RFS mandates, our results of operations and cash flows could be adversely affected.
The current administration has also been critical of exemptions from the RFS mandates granted to small refineries during the previous administration. While litigation over the issue is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. EPA under the current administration may be less willing to grant such waivers going forward and may increase the RVO obligations in future years. To the extent fewer waivers are granted in the future or RVO obligations are increased, the demand for and the price of RINs would likely also increase, and our results of operations and cash flows could be adversely affected.
Any attemptActions by the U.S. government to enter into, withdraw from, re-enter, materiallyor modify any existing internationalcurrent or future trade agreements or enter into any new international trade agreements in the future could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.operations, and liquidity.
The previous U.S. presidential administration questioned certain existing and proposed trade agreements. For example, thethat administration withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In addition, the previousthat administration implemented and proposed various trade tariffs, which have resulted in foreign governments responding with tariffs on U.S. goods.
Changes in U.S. social, political, regulatory, and economic conditions or in laws and policies governing foreign trade, manufacturing, development, and investment could adversely affect our business. For example, the imposition of tariffs, export bans, or other international trade barriers with other countries could affect our ability to obtain feedstocks from international sources, increase our costs, and reduce the competitiveness of our products.
While Although there is currently a lack of certaintyuncertainty around the likelihood, timing, and details of anymany such policies and reforms,actions, if the current U.S. administration takes action to enter into, withdraw from, re-enter, or materially modify any existingcurrent or future international trade agreements, or to enter into any new international trade agreements in the future, our business, financial condition, and results of operations, and liquidity could be adversely affected.
Compliance with and changes in tax laws could adversely affect our performance.performance.
We are subject to extensive tax liabilities imposed by multiple jurisdictions, including income taxes, indirect taxes (excise/duty, sales/use, gross receipts, and value-added taxes (VAT))taxes), payroll taxes, franchise taxes, withholding taxes, and ad valorem taxes. New tax laws and regulations and changes in
existing tax laws and regulations are continuously being enacted or proposed that could result in increased expenditures for tax liabilities in the future. For example, the IRA contains significant changes to U.S. tax law including, but not limited to, a corporate minimum tax and a one percent excise tax on the purchase by companies of their own stock, which are generally effective in 2023 or later. Many of these tax liabilities are subject to periodic audits by the respective taxing authority.authorities. Although we believe we have used reasonable interpretations and assumptions in calculating our tax liabilities, the final determination of these tax audits and any related proceedings cannot be predicted with certainty. Any adverse outcome of any of such tax audits or related proceedings could result in unforeseen tax-related liabilities that may, individually or in the aggregate, materially affect our cash tax liabilities, and, as a result, our business, financial condition, results of operations, and financial condition.liquidity. Tax rates in the various jurisdictions in which we operate may change significantly as a result of political or economic factors beyond our control. It is also possible that future changes to tax laws (includingor tax treaties, with any of the jurisdictions in which we operate)or interpretations thereof, could impact our ability to realize the tax savings recorded to date. Additionally,date and adversely affect our future effective tax rates could be adversely affected by changes in tax laws (including tax treaties) or their interpretations.
Changes in the method of determining the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) or the replacement of LIBOR with an alternative reference rate may adversely affect interest rates.
On July 27, 2017, the Financial Conduct Authority in the U.K. announced that it would phase out LIBOR as a benchmark by the end of 2021. It is unclear whether new methods of calculating LIBOR will be established such that it continues to exist after 2021, or whether different benchmark rates used to price indebtedness will develop. In the future, we may need to renegotiate our financial agreements, including, but not limited to, our $4.0 billion revolving credit facility, or incur other indebtedness, and we may be required to select and use a replacement reference rate for certain other outstanding debt. The phase-out of LIBOR or the use of any replacement reference rate may negatively impact the terms of, and our ability to refinance, such indebtedness and could also adversely affect the interest rate payable on, and the liquidity and value of, such indebtedness. In addition, the overall financial market and the ability to raise future indebtedness in a cost effective manner may be disrupted as a result of the phase-out or replacement of LIBOR. Disruption in the financial market could have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations, and liquidity.
Changes in the U.K.’s economic and other relationships with the European Union (EU) could adversely affect us.
In June 2016, the U.K. elected to withdraw from the EU in a national referendum (Brexit). The U.K. withdrew from the EU on January 31, 2020, consistent with the terms of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, with a transition period that ended on December 31, 2020. On January 1, 2021, the U.K. left the EU Single Market and Customs Union as well as all EU policies and international agreements. As a result, the free movement of persons, goods, services, and capital between the U.K. and the EU ended, and the EU and the U.K. formed two separate markets and two distinct regulatory and legal spaces. On December 24, 2020, the European Commission reached a trade agreement with the U.K. on the terms of its future cooperation with the EU. The trade agreement offers U.K. and EU companies preferential access to each other’s markets, ensuring imported goods will be free of tariffs and quotas (subject to rules of origin requirements). The ultimate impact of this trade agreement, and the broader economic and regulatory consequences of Brexit, however, are currently unknown, and it is possible that such effects and consequences could ultimately adversely impact our operations and financial performance.
Cyber Security and Privacy Related Risks
A significant interruption related tobreach of our information technology systems could adversely affect our business.
Our information technology systems and network infrastructure may be subject to unauthorized access or attack which(and we are frequently subject to such attempts), including ransom-related incidents that could result in (i) a loss of intellectual property, proprietary information, or employee, customer or vendor data; (ii) public disclosure of sensitive information; (iii) increased costs to prevent, and be prepared to respond to or mitigate cybersecuritysuch events, such as deploying additional personnel and protection technologies, training employees, and engaging third-party experts and consultants;consultants. Such events could also result in (i) a loss of intellectual property, proprietary information, or employee, customer, supplier, or vendor data, (ii) public disclosure of sensitive information, (iii) systems interruption, (iv) systems interruption; (v) disruption of our business operations; (vi)operations, (v) remediation costs forand repairs of system damage; (vii)damage, (vi) reputational damage that adversely affects customer, supplier, or investor confidence;confidence, and (viii)(vii) damage to our competitiveness, stockthe price of our securities, and long-term stockholder value. A breach could also originate from or compromise our customers’ and, vendors’, suppliers’, or other third-party networks outside of our control.control that could impact our business and operations, as occurred with the Colonial Pipeline cybersecurity incident in May 2021. Although we implement stringent controls on third-party connectivity to our systems, we have limited control over ensuring their systems consistently enforce strong cybersecurity controls. Increased risks of such attacks and disruptions also exist because of the continuing Russia-Ukraine conflict. A breach may also result in legal claims or proceedings against us by our shareholders,stockholders, employees, customers, vendors, and governmental authorities (U.S. and non-U.S.).government authorities. There can be no assurance that our current or future infrastructure protection technologies and disaster recovery plans can prevent a technology systems breachsuch breaches, cyber, and ransom-related incidents, or systems failure,failures, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position orcondition, results of operations. Furthermore, theoperations, and liquidity. The continuing and evolving threat of cyberattackscybersecurity incidents has also resulted in increased regulatory focus on prevention. Toprevention and disclosure, such as the extent we face increased regulatory requirements, wedirective issued by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration following the Colonial Pipeline cybersecurity incident, the obligations imposed by the U.S. Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act adopted in March 2022, and the SEC’s proposed cybersecurity disclosure rule. We may be required to expend significant additional resources to meetcomply with such requirements.laws and regulations, incur fines for noncompliance, and otherwise be exposed to litigation and regulatory action as a result thereof.
Increasing legal and regulatory focus on data privacy and security issues and expanding laws could expose us to increased liability subject us to lawsuits, investigations, and other liabilitiesoperational changes and restrictions on our operationscosts that could significantlymaterially and adversely affect our business.
Along with our own data and information in the normal course of our business, we collect and retain certain data that is subject to specific laws and regulations. The transfer and useprocessing of this data both domestically and transferring of this data across international borders is becoming increasingly complex. This data is subject to governmental regulation at the federal, state, international, provincial, and localvarious levels of government in many areas of our business and in jurisdictions across the world, including data privacy and security laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the U.K. and General Data Protection Regulation (U.K. GDPR), the standard contractual clauses (SCC) recently adopted by the European Commission and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
The GDPR applies to activities regardingU.K. Parliament for the processing and transfer of personal data in compliance with the GDPR and/or the U.K. GDPR, and Quebec’s Bill 64 (Bill 64). In addition to the CCPA, CPRA, the GDPR, the U.K. GDPR, and related SCCs, as well as Bill 64, we operate in multiple jurisdictions that may be conducted byhave issued, or are considering issuing, similar data privacy laws. As the number and stringency of data privacy laws applicable to us directly or indirectly through vendorscontinues to increase, we will face increasingly complex compliance challenges, as well as monitoring and subcontractors, from an establishment incontrol obligations, that have raised and could continue to raise our costs, and place increased demand on company resources. As the EU. Asimplementation, interpretation, and enforcement of the GDPR evolves, it createssuch laws continues to progress and evolve, there may also be a range of new compliance obligations, which could cause us to incur additional costs. Failure to comply could result in significant penalties of up to a maximum of 4 percent of our global turnoverchallenges that may materially adversely affect our business, reputation, results of operations, and cash flows.
The CCPA, which came into effect on January 1, 2020, gives California residents specific rights in relation to their personal information, requires that companies take certain actions, including notifications for security incidents, and may apply to activities regarding personal information that is collected by us, directly or indirectly, from California residents. As interpretation and enforcement of the CCPA evolves, it creates a range of new compliance obligations, with the possibility for significant financial penalties for noncompliance that may materially adversely affect our business, reputation, results of operations, and cash flows.
The GDPR and CCPA, as well as other data privacy laws that may become applicable to our business, pose increasingly complex compliance challenges and potentially elevate our costs.amplify such risks. Any failure by us (or any company we acquire) to comply with these laws and regulations, including as a result of a security or privacy breach, or otherwise, could result in significant penalties and liabilities for us. Additionally, if we acquire a company that has violated or is not in compliance with applicable data protection laws, we may incur significant liabilities and penalties as a result.expose us to litigation.
General Risk Factors
Uncertainty and illiquidity in financial markets, or changes in our credit and capital marketsprofile or ratings, can impairadversely affect our ability to obtain credit and financing on acceptable terms,capital, increase our costs, and can adversely affect the financial strength oflimit our business partners.flexibility.
Our ability to obtain credit and capital depends in large measure on capital markets and liquidity factors that we do not control. Our ability to access credit and capital markets may be restricted at a time when we would like, or need, to access those markets, which could have an impact on our flexibility to react to changing economic and business conditions. In addition, the cost and availability of debt and equity financing may be adversely impacted by rising interest rates, inflation, unstable or illiquid market conditions. Protracted uncertainty and illiquidityconditions, or adverse changes in these markets also could have an adverse impact on our lenders, commodity hedging counterparties,credit profile or our customers, causing them to fail to meet their obligations to us. In addition, decreased returns on pension fund assets may also materially increase our pension funding requirements.
Our access to credit and capital markets also depends on the credit ratings assigned to our debt by independent credit rating agencies. We currently maintain investment-grade ratings by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, Moody’s Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings on our senior unsecured debt. Ratings from credit agencies are not recommendations to buy, sell, or hold our securities. Each rating should be evaluated independently of any other rating. We cannot provide assurance that any of our current ratings will remain in effect for any given period of time or that a rating will not be lowered or withdrawn entirely by a rating agency if, in its judgment, circumstances so warrant. Specifically, if ratings agencies were to downgrade our long-term rating, particularly below investment grade, our borrowing costs may increase, whichratings. This could adversely affectimpact and limit our ability to attract potential investors and our funding sources could decrease. In addition, we may not be able to obtain favorable credit terms fromand debt financing, raise our supplierscost of capital, or they may require us to provide collateral, letters of credit, or other forms of security, which would increase our operating costs. As a result, a downgrade below investment grade incosts and restrict operational and financial flexibility. Unstable or illiquid market conditions could also negatively impact our credit ratingspension plans’ assets and funding requirements, and uncertainties associated with the transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate could have a material adverse impact on ouradversely affect financial position, results of operations,markets and liquidity.the interest rates we pay.
From time to time, our cash needs may exceed our internally generated cash flow, and our business could be materially and adversely affected if we were unable to obtain necessary funds from financing activities. From time to time, we may need to supplement our cash generated from operations with proceeds from financing activities.activities or provide letters of credit in certain commercial transactions. We have existing revolving credit facilities, committeduncommitted letter of credit facilities, and an accounts receivable sales facility intended to provide us with available financing to meet our ongoing cash needs.needs and commercial requirements. In addition, we rely on the counterparties to our commodity hedging and derivative instruments to fund their obligations under such arrangements. Uncertainty and illiquidity in financial markets may materiallycould have an adverse impact the ability of the participatingon our lenders, financial institutions, commodity hedging and otherderivative counterparties, and customers, causing them to fundfail to meet their commitmentsobligations to us, under our various financing facilities or our derivative instruments, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position,condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
Severe weather events may have an adverse effect on our assets and operations.
Severe weather events, such as storms, hurricanes, droughts, or floods, could have an adverse effect on our operations and could increase our costs. For instance,example, severe weather events can have an impact on cropscrop production and reduce the supply of, or otherwise increase our costs to obtain, feedstocks for our ethanolEthanol and renewable dieselRenewable Diesel segments. We have incurred and expect to continue to incur additional costs and expenses to keep our facilities performing and to mitigate and reduce the risk of severe weather to our operations. If climate changes result in more intense or frequent severe weather events occur, the physical and disruptive effects could have a material adverse impact on our operations and assets.
Our business may be negatively affected by work stoppages, slowdowns, or strikes, by our employees, as well as by new legislation or an inability to attract and retain sufficient labor, legislation issued by regulators.and increased costs related thereto.
Certain workersemployees at five of our U.S. refineries, as well as at each of our CanadianCanada and U.K. refineries, and one of our terminals, are covered by collective bargaining or similar agreements, which generally have unique and independent expiration dates. To the extent we are in negotiations for labor agreements expiring in the future, there is no assurance an agreement will be reached without a strike, work stoppage, or other labor action. Any prolonged strike, work stoppage, or other labor action at our facilities or at facilities owned or operated by third parties that support our operations could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations. In addition, futureoperations, and liquidity. Future U.S. federal, state, or foreigninternational labor legislation could result in labor shortages and higher costs, especially during critical maintenance periods.costs.
WeThere also continues to be a tight labor market despite the COVID-19 pandemic having largely subsided. Increases in remote work opportunities have also amplified the competition for employees and contractors. An inability to recruit, train, and retain adequate personnel, or the loss or departure of personnel with key skills or deep institutional knowledge for whom we are subjectunable to operational risksfind adequate replacements, may negatively impact our business. Inflation has also caused and may in the future cause increases in employee-related costs, both due to higher wages and changes in our insurancepension valuations, and such pension valuations changes have incentivized and may not be sufficientin the future incentivize early retirement.
Our ability to cover all potentialfully insure losses arising from our operating hazards. Failure by one or more insurers to honor their coverage commitments for an insured eventhazards could materially and adversely affect our business, financial position,condition, results of operations, and liquidity.liquidity.
Our operations are subject to various hazards common to the industry, including explosions, fires, toxic emissions, maritime hazards, and natural catastrophes. As protection against these hazards, we maintain insurance coverage against some, but not all, potential losses and liabilities. We may not be able to maintain or obtain insurance of the type and amount we desireneed, or at reasonableacceptable rates. As a result of market conditions, premiums and deductibles for certain of our insurance policies could increase substantially. In some instances, certain insurance could become unavailable or available only for reduced amounts of coverage. For example, coverage for hurricane damage is very limited, and coverage for terrorism and cyber risks includes veryhave broad exclusions. If we were to incur a significant loss or liability for which we wereare not fully insured, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position,condition, results of operations, and liquidity.
Our insurance program includes As a number of insurance carriers. Significant disruptions in financial markets could lead to a deterioration in the financial condition of many financial institutions, including insurance companies. Weresult, we can makeprovide no assurancesassurance that we will be able to obtain the full amount of our insurance coverage for insured events.
ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
None.
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
LITIGATION
We incorporate by reference into this Item our disclosures made in Part II, Item 8 of this report included in Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements under the caption “Legal Contingencies.”
ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT MATTERS
While it is not possible to predict the outcome of the following environmental proceedings, if any one or more of them were decided against us, we believe that there would be no material effect on our financial position,condition, results of operations, orand liquidity. We are reporting these proceedings to comply with U.S. SEC regulations, which require us to disclose certain information about proceedings arising under U.S. federal, state, or local provisions regulating the discharge of materials into the environment or protecting the environment if we reasonably believe that such proceedings have the potential to result in monetary sanctions of $300,000 or more.
U.S. EPA (Fuels)(Benicia Refinery). In our Annual Reportannual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018,2021, we reported that wethe EPA had an outstanding Notice of Violation from the U.S. EPA related to violations from a 2015 Mobile Source Inspection. In the fourth quarter of 2020, we negotiated a final Consent Order with the U.S. EPA resolving the matter upon entry of the Consent Order on December 29, 2020.
U.S. EPA (Benicia Refinery). On December 11, 2020, the U.S. EPA issued a Notice of Potential Violations and Opportunity to Confer related to a series of inspections conducted by the U.S. EPA in 2019, arising out of the 2017 Pacific Gas and Electric Company power outage, and a 2019 emissions event.event at our Benicia Refinery. We are working with the U.S. EPA to resolve this matter.
Texas Attorney General of the State of Texas (Texas AG) (Corpus Christi Asphalt Plant). In our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2019, we reported that we had received a letter and draft Agreed Final Judgment from the Texas AG related to a contaminated water backflow incident that related to the Valero Corpus Christi Asphalt Plant. The draft Agreed Final Judgment assessed proposed penalties in the amount of $1.3 million. We are working with the Texas AG to resolve this matter.
Texas AG (Port Arthur Refinery). In our Quarterly Reportannual report on Form 10-Q10-K for the quarteryear ended June 30, 2019,December 31, 2021, we reported that the Texas AG had filed suit against our Port Arthur Refinery in the 419th Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas, Cause No. D-1-GN-19-004121, for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act seeking injunctive relief and penalties. We are working with the Texas AG to resolve this matter.
Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) (Benicia Refinery). In our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, we reported that we had received a Violation Notice from the BAAQMD related to atmospheric emissions at our Benicia Refinery. We are working with the BAAQMD to resolve this matter.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) (Corpus Christi East Refinery). In our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, we reported that we had received a Notice of Enforcement from the TCEQ relating to Title V permit deviations at our Corpus Christi East Refinery. We are working with the TCEQ to resolve this matter.
ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
None.
PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’SREGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Our common stock trades on the NYSE under the trading symbol “VLO.”
As of January 31, 2021,2023, there were 4,9824,562 holders of record of our common stock.
Dividends are considered quarterly by the board of directors,Board, may be paid only when approved by the board,Board, and will depend on our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, prospects, industry conditions, capital requirements, and other factors and restrictions our boardBoard deems relevant. There can be no assurance that we will pay a dividend in the future at the rates we have paid historically, or at all.
The following table discloses purchases of shares of our common stock made by us or on our behalf during the fourth quarter of 2020.2022.
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Period | | Total Number of Shares Purchased | | Average Price Paid per Share | | Total Number of Shares Not Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs (a) | | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs | | Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs (b) |
October 2020 | | 13 | | | $ | 39.91 | | | 13 | | | — | | | $1.4 billion |
November 2020 | | 191,256 | | | $ | 43.32 | | | 191,256 | | | — | | | $1.4 billion |
December 2020 | | 11,551 | | | $ | 55.40 | | | 11,551 | | | — | | | $1.4 billion |
Total | | 202,820 | | | $ | 44.01 | | | 202,820 | | | — | | | $1.4 billion |
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Period | | Total Number of Shares Purchased (a) | | Average Price Paid per Share | | | | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs | | Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs (b) |
October 2022 | | 94,879 | | | $ | 127.85 | | | | | — | | | $4.1 billion |
November 2022 | | 5,718,669 | | | $ | 134.80 | | | | | 5,670,935 | | | $3.3 billion |
December 2022 | | 7,983,898 | | | $ | 122.03 | | | | | 7,980,785 | | | $2.3 billion |
Total | | 13,797,446 | | | $ | 127.36 | | | | | 13,651,720 | | | $2.3 billion |
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(a)The shares reported in this column represent purchases settled in the fourth quarter of 2020 relatinginclude 145,726 shares related to (i) our purchases of shares in open-market transactions to meet our obligations under stock-based compensation plans and (ii) our purchases of shares from our employees and non-employee directors in connection with the exercise of stock options, the vesting of restricted stock, and other stock compensation transactions in accordance with the terms of our stock-based compensation plans.
(b)On January 23, 2018, we announced that our board of directorsBoard authorized our purchase of up to $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock (the 2018 Program), with no expiration date. date, and we completed all authorized share purchases under that program during the second quarter of 2022. On July 7, 2022, we announced that our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, and we completed all authorized share purchases under that program during the fourth quarter of 2022. On October 26, 2022, our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date (the October 2022 Program).As of December 31, 2020,2022, we had $1.4$2.3 billion of our outstanding common stock remaining available for purchase under the 2018 Program. We have not purchased any sharesthis program. On February 23, 2023, our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, which is in addition to the amount remaining under the 2018 Program since mid-March 2020, and we will evaluate the timing of repurchases when appropriate. We have no obligation to make purchases under the 2018October 2022 Program.
The performance graph on the following pagebelow is not “soliciting material,” is not deemed filed with the U.S. SEC, and is not to be incorporated by reference into any of Valero’sour filings under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, respectively.
This performance graph and the related textual information are based on historical data and are not indicative of future performance. The following line graph compares the cumulative total return53 on an investment in our common stock against the cumulative total return of the S&P 500 Composite Index and an index of peers (that we selected) for the five-year period commencing December 31, 20152017 and ending December 31, 2020.2022. Our selected peer group comprises the following ten members: ConocoPhillips; CVR Energy, Inc.; Delek US Holdings, Inc.; the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund; EOG Resources, Inc.; HollyFrontierHF Sinclair Corporation; Marathon Petroleum Corporation; Occidental Petroleum Corporation; PBF Energy Inc.; and Phillips 66. Removed from the prior year’s peer group were BP p.l.c. and Royal Dutch Shell plc, while ConocoPhillips, EOG Resources, Inc., and Occidental Petroleum Corporation were added. Also added was theThe Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund index (XLE), which includes approximately 30 energy companies and serves as a proxy for stock price performance of the energy sector and includes energy companies with which we compete for capital. We believe that the revisedour peer group represents an improveda group of companies for making head-to-head performance comparisons in a competitive operating environment that is primarily characterized by U.S.-based companies that have business models predominantly consisting of downstream refining operations, together with similarly sized energy companies that share operating similarities to us, and that are in adjacent segments of the oil and gas industry.
COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN53
Among Valero, Energy Corporation, the S&P 500 Index,
Old Peer Group, and New Peer Group
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| As of December 31, |
| 2015 | | 2016 | | 2017 | | 2018 | | 2019 | | 2020 |
Valero Common Stock | $ | 100.00 | | | $ | 100.78 | | | $ | 141.08 | | | $ | 118.90 | | | $ | 155.00 | | | $ | 99.82 | |
S&P 500 | 100.00 | | | 111.96 | | | 136.40 | | | 130.42 | | | 171.49 | | | 203.04 | |
Old Peer Group | 100.00 | | | 120.01 | | | 152.07 | | | 141.70 | | | 155.42 | | | 96.05 | |
New Peer Group | 100.00 | | | 113.28 | | | 130.35 | | | 121.31 | | | 125.22 | | | 76.79 | |
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| As of December 31, |
| 2017 | | 2018 | | 2019 | | 2020 | | 2021 | | 2022 |
Valero common stock | $ | 100.00 | | | $ | 84.28 | | | $ | 109.87 | | | $ | 70.75 | | | $ | 99.28 | | | $ | 173.77 | |
S&P 500 Index | 100.00 | | | 95.62 | | | 125.72 | | | 148.85 | | | 191.58 | | | 156.89 | |
Peer Group | 100.00 | | | 93.30 | | | 96.50 | | | 59.30 | | | 96.35 | | | 168.49 | |
53 Assumes that an investment in Valero common stock, the S&P 500 index, and each indexour peer group was $100 on December 31, 2015. “Cumulative2017. Cumulative total return”return is based on share price appreciation plus reinvestment of dividends from December 31, 20152017 through December 31, 2020.2022.
ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA[RESERVED]
The selected financial data for the five-year period ended December 31, 2020 was derived from our audited financial statements. The following table should be read together with Item 7, “MANAGEMENT’S
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS” and with the historical financial statements and accompanying notes included in Item 8, “FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA.”OPERATIONS
The following summaries are in millionsdiscussion and analysis is management’s perspective of dollars, except for per share amounts:
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| 2020 (a) | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2017 (b) | | 2016 (c) |
Revenues | $ | 64,912 | | | $ | 108,324 | | | $ | 117,033 | | | $ | 93,980 | | | $ | 75,659 | |
Net income (loss) | (1,107) | | | 2,784 | | | 3,353 | | | 4,156 | | | 2,417 | |
Earnings (loss) per common share – assuming dilution | (3.50) | | | 5.84 | | | 7.29 | | | 9.16 | | | 4.94 | |
Dividends per common share | 3.92 | | | 3.60 | | | 3.20 | | | 2.80 | | | 2.40 | |
Total assets | 51,774 | | | 53,864 | | | 50,155 | | | 50,158 | | | 46,173 | |
Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | 13,954 | | | 9,178 | | | 8,871 | | | 8,750 | | | 7,886 | |
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(a)Includes a charge of $224 million related to the liquidation of last-in, first-out (LIFO) inventory layers.
(b)Includes the impact of the Tax Cutsour current financial condition and Jobs Act of 2017 that was enacted on December 22, 2017 and resulted in a net income tax benefit of $1.9 billion.
(c)Includes a noncash LCM inventory valuation adjustment that resulted in a pre-tax benefit of $747 million.
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following review of our results of operations, and financial condition should be read in conjunction with Item 1A, “RISK FACTORS,”“ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS” and Item 8, “FINANCIAL“ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA,”DATA” included in this report.
This discussion and analysis includes the years ended December 31, 20202022 and 20192021 and comparisonscomparison between such years. The discussionsdiscussion for the year ended December 31, 20182020 and comparisonscomparison between the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 20182020 have been omitted from this Annual Reportannual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020,2022, as such information can be found in “MANAGEMENT’S“ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS” in Part II, Item 7 in our Annual Reportannual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019,2021, which was filed on February 26, 2020.22, 2022.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF SAFE HARBOR PROVISIONS OF THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995
This report, including without limitation our disclosures below under the heading “OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK,” includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. You can identify our forward-looking statements by the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “expect,” “plan,” “intend,” “scheduled,” “estimate,” “project,” “projection,” “predict,” “budget,” “forecast,” “goal,” “guidance,” “target,” “could,” “would,” “should,” “will,” “may,” “strive,” “seek,” “potential,” “opportunity,” “aimed,” “considering,” “continue,” and similar expressions.
These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding:
•the effects and impact of the emergence of new variants of the COVID-19 virus and government responses thereto;
•the effect, impact, potential duration or timing, or other implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and global crude oil production levels, and any expectations we may have with respect thereto, including with respect to our operations and the production levels of our assets;Russia-Ukraine conflict;
•future refiningRefining segment margins, including gasoline and distillate margins;margins, and discounts;
•future renewable dieselRenewable Diesel segment margins;
•future ethanolEthanol segment margins;
•expectations regarding feedstock costs, including crude oil differentials, product prices for each of our segments, and operating expenses;
•anticipated levels of crude oil and refined petroleum productliquid transportation fuel inventories and storage capacity;
•expectations regarding the levels of, and timing with respect to, the production and operations at our existing refineries and plants, and projects under construction;
•our anticipated level of capital investments, including deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures, our expected allocation between, and/or within, growth capital expenditures and sustaining capital expenditures, capital expenditures for environmental and other purposes, and joint venture investments, the expected timing applicable to such capital investments and any related projects, and the effect of those capital investments on our business, financial condition, results of operations;operations, and liquidity;
•our anticipated level of cash distributions or contributions, such as our dividend payment rate and contributions to our qualified pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans;
•our ability to meet future cash requirements, whether from funds generated from our operations or our ability to access financial markets effectively, and our ability to maintain sufficient liquidity;
•our evaluation of, and expectations regarding, any future activity under our share purchase program or transactions involving our debt securities;
•anticipated trends in the supply of, and demand for, crude oil and other feedstocks and refined petroleum products, renewable diesel, and ethanol and corn related co-products in the regions where we operate, as well as globally;
•expectations regarding environmental, tax, and other regulatory initiatives;matters, including the anticipated amounts and timing of payment with respect to our deferred tax liabilities, matters impacting our ability to repatriate cash held by our foreign subsidiaries, and the anticipated effect thereof on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity;
•the effect of general economic and other conditions, including inflation and economic activity levels, on refining, renewable diesel, and ethanol industry fundamentals.fundamentals;
•expectations regarding our risk management activities, including the anticipated effects of our hedge transactions;
•expectations regarding our counterparties, including our ability to pass on increased compliance costs and timely collect receivables, and the credit risk within our accounts receivable or accounts payable;
•expectations regarding adoptions of new, or changes to existing, low-carbon fuel standards or policies, blending and tax credits, or efficiency standards that impact demand for renewable fuels; and
•expectations regarding our publicly announced GHG emissions reduction/displacement targets and our current and any future low-carbon projects.
We based our forward-looking statements on our current expectations, estimates, and projections about ourselves, our industry, and the global economy and financial markets generally. We caution that these statements are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and assumptions thatthe ultimate outcomes of which we cannot predict.predict with certainty. In addition, we based many of these forward-looking statements on assumptions about future events, thatthe ultimate outcomes of which we cannot predict with certainty and which may prove to be inaccurate. Accordingly, actual performance or results may differ materially from the future performance or results that we have expressed, suggested, or forecast in the forward-looking statements. Differences between actual performance or results and any future performance or results expressed, suggested, or forecast in these forward-looking statements could result from a variety of factors, including the following:
•the effects arising out of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, including with respect to changes in trade flows and impacts to crude oil and other markets;
•demand for, and supplies of, refined petroleum products (such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and petrochemicals), renewable diesel, and ethanol and corn related co-products;
•demand for, and supplies of, crude oil and other feedstocks;
•the effects of public health threats, pandemics, and epidemics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and variants of the virus, governmental and societal responses thereto, and the adverse impacts thereofof the foregoing on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity, including, but not limited to, our growth, operating costs, supply chain, labor availability, logistical capabilities, customer demand for our products, and industry demand generally, margins, production and throughput capacity, utilization, inventory value, cash position, taxes, the price of our securities and trading markets with respect thereto, our ability to access capital markets, and the global economy and financial markets generally;
•acts of terrorism aimed at either our refineries and plants or third-party facilities that could impair our ability to produce or transport refined petroleum products, renewable diesel, ethanol, or corn related co-products, or to receive feedstocks;feedstocks, or otherwise operate efficiently;
•the effects of war or hostilities, and political and economic conditions, in nationscountries that produce crude oil or other feedstocks or consume refined petroleum products, renewable diesel, ethanol or corn related co-products;
•the ability of the members of OPEC to agree on and to maintain crude oil price and production controls;
•the level of consumer demand, consumption, and overall economic activity, including the effects from seasonal fluctuations;fluctuations and market prices;
•refinery, renewable diesel plant, or ethanol plant overcapacity or undercapacity;
•our ability to successfully integratethe risk that any acquired businesses into our operations;transactions may not provide the anticipated benefits or may result in unforeseen detriments;
•the actions taken by competitors, including both pricing and adjustments to refining capacity or renewable fuels production in response to market conditions;
•the level of competitors’ imports into markets that we supply;
•accidents, unscheduled shutdowns, weather events, civil unrest, expropriation of assets, and other economic, diplomatic, legislative, or political events or developments, terrorism, cyberattacks, or other catastrophes or disruptions affecting our operations, production facilities, machinery, pipelines and other logistics assets, equipment, or information systems, or any of the foregoing of our suppliers, customers, or third-party service providers;
•changes in the cost or availability of transportation or storage capacity for feedstocks and our products;
•political pressure and influence of environmental groups and other stakeholders upon policies and decisions related to the production, transportation, storage, refining, processing, marketing, and sales of crude oil or other feedstocks, refined petroleum products, renewable diesel, ethanol, or corn related co-products;
•the price, availability, technology related to, and acceptance of alternative fuels and alternative-fuel vehicles, as well as sentiment and perceptions with respect to GHG emissions more generally;
•the levels of government subsidies for, and executive orders, mandates, or other policies with respect to, alternative fuels, alternative-fuel vehicles, and other low-carbon technologies;technologies or initiatives, including those related to carbon capture, carbon sequestration, and low-carbon fuels, or affecting the price of natural gas and/or electricity;
•the volatility in the market price of biofuelcompliance credits (primarily RINs needed to comply with the RFS) under the Renewable and GHGLow-Carbon Fuel Programs and emission credits needed to comply with the requirements of various GHG emissionunder other environmental emissions programs;
•delay of, cancellation of, or failure to implement planned capital or other projects and realize the various assumptions and benefits projected for such projects or cost overruns in constructing such planned capital projects;
•earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms, and irregularother weather events, which can unforeseeably affect the price or availability of electricity, natural gas, crude oil, renderedwaste and recycled materials,renewable feedstocks, corn, and other feedstocks, critical supplies, refined petroleum products, renewable diesel, and ethanol;
•rulings, judgments, or settlements in litigation or other legal or regulatory matters, including unexpected environmental remediation costs, in excess of any reserves or insurance coverage;
•legislative or regulatory action, including the introduction or enactment of legislation or rulemakings by governmentalgovernment authorities, including tariffs and tax and environmental regulations, such as thosechanges to income tax rates, introduction of a global minimum tax, windfall taxes or penalties, tax changes or restrictions impacting the foreign repatriation of cash, actions implemented under the California cap-and-trade systemRenewable and similarLow-Carbon Fuel Programs and other environmental emissions programs, including changes to volume requirements or other obligations or exemptions under the RFS, and actions arising from
the U.S. EPA’s or other governmental regulationgovernment agencies’ regulations, policies, or initiatives concerning GHGs, including mandates for or bans of GHGs,specific technology, which may adversely affect our business or operations;
•changing economic, regulatory, and political environments and related events in the various countries in which we operate or otherwise do business, including trade restrictions, expropriation or impoundment of assets, failure of foreign governments and state-owned entities to honor their contracts, property disputes, economic instability, restrictions on the transfer of funds, duties and tariffs, transportation delays, import and export controls, labor unrest, security issues involving key personnel, and decisions, investigations, regulations, issuances or revocations of permits and other authorizations, and other actions, policies, and initiatives by the states, counties, cities, and other jurisdictions in the countries in which we operate or otherwise do business;
•changes in the credit ratings assigned to our debt securities and trade credit;
•the operating, financing, and distribution decisions of our joint ventures or other joint venture members that we do not control;
•changes in currency exchange rates, including the value of the Canadian dollar, the pound sterling, the euro, the Mexican peso, and the Peruvian sol relative to the U.S. dollar;
•the adequacy of capital resources and liquidity, including availability, timing, and amounts of cash flow or our ability to borrow;borrow or access financial markets;
•the costs, disruption, and diversion of resources associated with campaigns and negative publicity commenced by investors, stakeholders, or other interested parties;
•overall economic conditions, including the stability and liquidity of financial markets;markets, and the effect thereof on consumer demand; and
•other factors generally described in the “RISK FACTORS” section included in Item 1A, “RISK“ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS” in this report.
Any one of these factors, or a combination of these factors, could materially affect our future results of operations and whether any forward-looking statements ultimately prove to be accurate. Our forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results and future performance may differ materially from those expressed, suggested, or forecast in any forward-looking statements. WeSuch forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this annual report on Form 10-K and we do not intend to update these statements unless we are required by theapplicable securities laws to do so.
All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing.foregoing, as it may be updated or modified by our future filings with the SEC. We undertake no obligation to publicly release any revisions to any such forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this report or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.events unless we are required by applicable securities laws to do so.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
The discussions in “OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK,” “RESULTS OF OPERATIONS,” and “LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES” below include references to financial measures that are not defined under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These non-GAAP financial measures include adjusted operating income (loss) (including adjusted operating income (loss) for each of our reportable segments, as applicable); refining, renewable diesel,Refining, Renewable Diesel, and ethanolEthanol segment margin; and capital investments attributable to Valero. We have included these non-GAAP financial measures to help facilitate the comparison of operating results between years, and to help assess our cash flows.flows, and because we believe they provide useful information as discussed further below. See the tables in note (f) (h)
beginning on page 4652 for reconciliations of adjusted operating income (loss) (including adjusted operating income (loss) for each of our reportable segments, as applicable) and refining, renewable diesel,Refining, Renewable Diesel, and ethanolEthanol segment margin to their most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures. Also in note (f)(h), we disclose the reasons why we believe our use of such non-GAAP financial measures provides useful information. See the table on page 5360 for a reconciliation of capital investments attributable to Valero to its most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure. Beginning onOn page 52,59, we disclose the reasons why we believe our use of this non-GAAP financial measure provides useful information.
OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK
Overview
Business Operations Update
The outbreak of COVID-19 and its development into a pandemic in March 2020 has resulted in significant economic disruption globally, including in North America, Europe, and Latin America,Our results for the primary geographic areas where we operate. In March, governmental authorities aroundyear ended December 31, 2022 were favorably impacted by the world took actions, such as stay-at-home orders and other social distancing measures, to sloweffect from the spread of COVID-19 that restricted travel, public gatherings, and the overall level of individual movement and in-person interaction across the globe. These actions significantly reduced global economic activity and negatively impacted many businesses, including our business. Airlines have dramatically reduced flights and motor vehicle usage has significantly declined, in each case relative to typical pre-pandemic levels. As a result,ongoing recovery in the first half of 2020, there was a decline in theworldwide demand for petroleum-based transportation fuels while the worldwide supply of those products remained constrained. This supply and thus alsodemand imbalance has contributed to increases in the market prices of mostpetroleum-based transportation fuels (as well as crude oil and other feedstocks that are processed to make these products) and thus in refining margins. Supply has remained constrained for a variety of reasons, including, but not limited to, effects from refinery closures and disruptions in the crude oil and petroleum-based products markets resulting from the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Refineries closed over the last two years and other refineries ceased crude oil processing and are transitioning to renewable fuel production. In addition, these negative impacts to the supply of petroleum-based products were exacerbated during the second quarter of 2022 by the Russia-Ukraine conflict as a result of countries and private market participants responding to the conflict by taking actions to refrain from purchasing and transporting Russian crude oil and petroleum-based products; however, some of the transportation fuels that we produceuncertainties and sell. There was also a decline inrelated impacts began dissipating throughout the global demand for crude oil, the primary feedstock for our refined products, resulting in a decline in crude oil prices and production levels. While the production levelslast six months of all types of crude oils have declined, sour crude oil production has declined significantly and by more than production levels for sweet crude oils. This has reduced the price advantage of sour crude oils relative to sweet crude oils, which has exacerbated the negative impact of lower product prices on our refining margin.6,72022.
BeginningThe strong demand for our products and the increase in refining margins were the primary contributors to to us reporting $11.5 billion of net income attributable to Valero stockholders for the year ended December 31, 2022. Our operating results for 2022, including operating results by segment, are described in the latter part ofsummary on the second quarter, certain governmental authorities in the U.S.following page, and other countries across the world, particularly those in our U.S. Gulf Coast and U.S. Mid-Continent regions, began lifting many of the restrictions put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19, while governmental authorities in our U.S. West Coast and North Atlantic regions began lifting restrictions on a more moderate basis during the third quarter. This resulted in an increase in the level of individual movement and travel and, in turn, an increase in the demand and market prices for most of our products relative to what we experienced during the early months of the pandemic. However, in the second half of 2020, many locations where restrictions were lifted, and others where the restrictions were only more moderately lifted (such as California in our U.S. West Coast region, and New York, Canada, and the U.K. in our North Atlantic region), experienced a resurgence in the spread of COVID-19, which prompted many governmental authorities to reimpose certain restrictions. In December 2020, the U.S. FDA and Canadian and U.K. regulators each granted emergency-use authorization for multiple COVID-19 vaccines todetailed descriptions can be used as immunization against the COVID-19 virus. Although these vaccines may be seen as a key factor in helping to restore public confidence, and thus stimulate and increase economic activity, potentially to pre-pandemic levels, they may not be distributed widely on a timely basis and they may not be effective against new variants of the virus. Based on these and other circumstances that cannot be predicted, the broader implications of the pandemic on our results of operations and financial position remain uncertain.found below under “RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.”
Our operations generated $12.6 billion of cash in 2022. This cash was used to make $2.7 billion of capital investments in our business and return $6.1 billion to our stockholders through purchases of common stock for treasury and dividend payments. In addition, we completed various debt reduction and refinancing transactions that reduced our debt by approximately $2.7 billion in 2022, as described in Note 8 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. As previously noted, the decreasea result of this activity, our cash and cash equivalents increased by $740 million during 2022 to $4.9 billion as of December 31, 2022. We had $10.1 billion in the demand for transportation fuels has resulted in a significant decrease in the priceliquidity as of refined petroleum products manufactured by our refining segment. For example, the price of gasoline8 in the U.S. Gulf Coast region where eightDecember 31, 2022. The components of our 15 refineries are located was $68.82 per barrel at the beginningliquidity and descriptions of 2020, fell to $17.65 per barrel at the end of March (a 74 percent decline),our cash flows, capital investments, and partially recovered to $57.63 per barrel by the end of December (a 16 percent decline over
other matters impacting our liquidity and capital resources can be found below under “LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES.”
6 See page 46 for our definition of refining margin and why we believe it is an important financial and operating measure.
7 Sour crude oils typically sell at a discount to the price of benchmark sweet crude oils, which set the price of most refined products. Therefore, lower prices for sour crude oils that we process have a favorable impact on our refining margin.
8 Gasoline prices quoted represent the price of U.S. Gulf Coast conventional blendstock of oxygenate blending gasoline.
the twelve-month period). Another example is the price of diesel9 in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, which was $81.71 per barrel at the beginning of 2020, fell to $39.18 per barrel at the end of March (a 52 percent decline), and partially recovered to $60.20 per barrel by the end of December (a 26 percent decline over the twelve-month period). On February 22, 2021, the prices of gasoline and diesel were $76.62 per barrel and $76.84 per barrel, respectively.
Demand for renewable diesel has not declined due to continued demand for this low-carbon transportation fuel despite the current economic environment; therefore, our renewable diesel segment has not been impacted as were our refining and ethanol segments.
The price of ethanol manufactured by our ethanol segment has also decreased due to a decline in demand. Because ethanol is primarily blended into gasoline, ethanol demand declined along with the decline in the demand for gasoline.
Prices for the products we sell and the feedstocks we purchase impact our revenues, cost of sales, operating income, and liquidity. In addition, a decline in the market prices of products and feedstocks below their carrying values in our inventory results in a writedown in the value of our inventories, and a subsequent recovery in market prices results in a write-up in the value of our inventories, not to exceed their previous carrying values. These inventory valuation adjustments are referred to as LCM inventory valuation adjustments and are described in Note 5 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. We wrote down the value of our inventories by $2.5 billion in the first quarter of 2020 due to the significant decline in market prices at that time, but as market prices improved, the writedown was fully reversed by the end of the third quarter.
For the year ended December 31, 2020, we generated an operating loss of $1.6 billion. Our operating results for the year ended December 31, 2020, including operating results by segment, are described in the summary below, and detailed descriptions can be found under “RESULTS OF OPERATIONS” on pages 37 through 49.
Our cash and cash equivalents increased by $730 million during 2020, from $2.6 billion as of December 31, 2019 to $3.3 billion as of December 31, 2020. We invested $2.4 billion in our business and returned $1.8 billion to our stockholders primarily through dividend payments. These uses of cash were offset by proceeds from two public debt offerings totaling $4.0 billion before deducting the underwriting discounts and debt issuance costs as described in Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. In addition, our operations generated net cash of $948 million, which was driven by a decrease in inventory on hand. We had $9.0 billion of liquidity10 as of December 31, 2020. A summary of our cash flows is presented on page 50, and a description of our cash flows and other matters impacting our liquidity and capital resources, including measures we have taken to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our liquidity, can be found under “LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES” on pages 49 through 55.
We have responded in multiple ways to the impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, and we will strive to continue to respond to these impacts. During the early months of the pandemic, we reduced the amount of crude oil processed at most of our refineries in response to the decreased demand for our products, we temporarily idled various gasoline-making units at certain of our refineries to further limit gasoline production, and we took measures to reduce jet fuel production. We also temporarily idled
9 Diesel prices quoted represent the price of U.S. Gulf Coast ultra-low sulfur diesel.
10 See the components of our liquidity as of December 31, 2020 in the table on page 50 under “LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES—Our Liquidity.”
eight of our ethanol plants and reduced production at our other ethanol plants, in each case in order to address the decreased demand for ethanol. We have since increased the production of most of our products to align with increasing demand, and we restarted the gasoline-making units and most of the ethanol plants that had been temporarily idled. Demand for our products taken as a whole, however, has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, and as of December 31, 2020, our refineries and plants are operating to meet current product demand. In addition to these measures and the issuances of an aggregate of $4.0 billion of debt previously noted, we have addressed our liquidity as outlined below:
•We deferred projects representing approximately $500 million of capital investments that we had expected to make in 2020 related to our refining and ethanol segments.
•We deferred income and indirect (e.g., VAT and motor fuel taxes) tax payments of approximately $440 million due in the first and second quarters of 2020. These deferrals were provided to taxpayers under new legislation, such as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in the U.S., and by various taxing authorities under existing legislation. As of December 31, 2020, we had approximately $250 million of deferred tax payments. Of the $250 million, approximately 70 percent will be paid in 2021 and 30 percent in 2022.
•We have not purchased any shares of our common stock under our stock purchase program since mid-March 2020, and we will evaluate the timing of repurchases when appropriate. We have no obligation to make purchases under our stock purchase program.
•We entered into a364-day Revolving Credit Facility on April 13, 2020 with an aggregate principal amount of up to $875 million as described in Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. As of December 31, 2020 and February 22, 2021, we had no outstanding borrowings under this facility.
•We extended the maturity date of our accounts receivable sales facility to July 2021 and decreased the facility amount from $1.3 billion to $1.0 billion as described in Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. As of December 31, 2020 and February 22, 2021, we had no outstanding borrowings under this facility.
Many uncertainties remain with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic, including its resulting economic effects, and we are unable to predict the ultimate economic impacts from the pandemic on our business and how quickly national economies can recover once the pandemic subsides, the timing or effectiveness of vaccine distributions, or whether any recovery will ultimately experience a reversal or other setbacks. However, the adverse impacts of the economic effects on our company have been and will likely continue to be significant. We believe we have proactively addressed many of the known impacts of the pandemic to the extent possible and we will strive to continue to do so, but there can be no assurance that these or other measures will be fully effective.
Results for the Year Ended December31, 20202022
For 2020,2022, we reported a net loss attributable to Valero stockholders of $1.4 billion compared to net income attributable to Valero stockholders of $2.4$11.5 billion compared to $930 million for 2019, which represents a decrease2021. The increase of $3.8 billion. The decrease$10.6 billion was primarily due to loweran increase in operating income of $5.4$13.6 billion, partially offset by a $1.6 billion decreasean increase in income taxes.tax expense of $3.2 billion. The decrease indetails of our operating income included a $224 million charge for the impact of a liquidation of LIFO inventory layers, which is described in Note 5 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statementsand adjusted operating income by segment and in total are reflected below. Adjusted operating income excludes the adjustments reflected in the tables in note (a)(h) beginning on page 44.
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | Change |
Refining segment: | | | | | |
Operating income | $ | 15,803 | | | $ | 1,862 | | | $ | 13,941 | |
Adjusted operating income | 15,762 | | | 1,944 | | | 13,818 | |
Renewable Diesel segment: | | | | | |
Operating income | 774 | | | 709 | | | 65 | |
Adjusted operating income | 774 | | | 712 | | | 62 | |
Ethanol segment: | | | | | |
Operating income | 110 | | | 473 | | | (363) | |
Adjusted operating income | 151 | | | 522 | | | (371) | |
Total company: | | | | | |
Operating income | 15,690 | | | 2,130 | | | 13,560 | |
Adjusted operating income | 15,710 | | | 2,264 | | | 13,446 | |
While our operating income decreasedincreased by $5.4$13.6 billion in 20202022 compared to 2019,2021, adjusted operating income decreasedincreased by $5.0 billion. Adjusted operating income excludes the LIFO liquidation adjustment and other adjustments to operating income reflected in the table in note (f) on page 49.
The $5.0$13.4 billion decrease in adjusted operating income was primarily due to the following:
•Refining segment. Refining segment adjusted operating income decreasedincreased by $5.1$13.8 billion primarily due to decreases inhigher gasoline and distillate (primarily diesel) margins lowerand higher throughput volumes, and the higher cost of biofuel credits, partially offset by higherlower margins on other products and lowerhigher operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense). This is more fully described on pages 41 and 42.
•Renewable dieselDiesel segment. Renewable dieselDiesel segment adjusted operating income increased by $62 million primarily due to a favorablehigher sales volumes and higher renewable diesel prices, partially offset by higher feedstock costs, an unfavorable impact from commodity derivative instruments associated with our price risk management activities. This is more fully described on page 43.
activities, higher operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense), and higher depreciation and amortization expense.
•Ethanol segment. Ethanol segment adjusted operating income decreased by $40$371 million primarily due to lower ethanol prices and production volumes, partially offset by higher prices on corn related co-products, lower corn prices and lowerhigher operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense). This is more fully described on pages 43, partially offset by higher ethanol and 44.corn related co-product prices.
Outlook
As previously discussed, manyMany uncertainties remain with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic,supply and demand imbalance in the petroleum-based products market worldwide, and while it is difficult to predict the ultimate economic impacts that the pandemic willthis may have on us, and how quickly we can recover once the pandemic subsides, we have noted several factors below that have impacted or may impact our results of operations during the first quarter of 2021.2023.
•Gasoline jet fuel, and diesel pricesdemand have returned to near pre-pandemic levels and are expected to follow typical seasonal patterns. Jet fuel demand continues to improve, as industry-wide excess inventory levels continue to draw toward historical levels and product demand recovers.but remains below pre-pandemic levels.
•Sour crudeLight product (gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel) inventories in the U.S. and Europe are below historical levels and should support continued high utilization of refining capacity.
•Crude oil discounts are not expected to improve until OPEC production is increasedremain near current levels absent changes in response to any growth in globalcrude oil demand.supply or availability.
•Renewable diesel margins are expected to remain consistent with current levels. Following the start-up of the DGD Port Arthur Plant in the fourth quarter of 2022, DGD’s combined renewable diesel production capacity increased by 470 million gallons per year, from 700 million gallons to approximately 1.2 billion gallons per year.
•Ethanol margins aredemand is expected to decline.follow typical seasonal patterns.
As a result of Brexit in June 2016, the U.K. withdrew from the EU on January 31, 2020 consistent with the terms of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement. In late December 2020, the European Commission reached a trade agreement with the U.K. on the terms of its future cooperation with the EU. The trade agreement offers U.K. and EU companies preferential access to each other’s markets, ensuring imported goods will be free of tariffs and quotas (subject to rules of origin requirements). Although the ultimate impact of this trade agreement is currently unknown, we do not anticipate any material adverse effect on our operations in the U.K.
In mid-February 2021, the U.S. Gulf Coast and U.S. Mid-Continent regions experienced a severe winter storm that disrupted the operation of industrial facilities like refineries, plants, and logistical assets, including ours located in those regions. Most facilities experienced curtailments or outages of various utilities and other services necessary for such facilities to remain operational. All of our facilities in those
regions were impacted to some extent by the severe cold and/or supply and utility disruptions. We are in the process of returning to normal operations and we are currently unable to estimate the impact this event will have on our results of operations.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following tables, including the reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures in note (f) (h)beginning on page 46,52, highlight our results of operations, our operating performance, and market reference prices that directly impact our operations. Note references in this section can be found on pages 50 through 55.
Financial Highlights by Segment and Total Company
(millions of dollars)
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| Year Ended December 31, 2020 |
| Refining | | Renewable Diesel | | Ethanol | | Corporate and Eliminations | | Total |
Revenues: | | | | | | | | | |
Revenues from external customers | $ | 60,840 | | | $ | 1,055 | | | $ | 3,017 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 64,912 | |
Intersegment revenues | 8 | | | 212 | | | 226 | | | (446) | | | — | |
Total revenues | 60,848 | | | 1,267 | | | 3,243 | | | (446) | | | 64,912 | |
Cost of sales: | | | | | | | | | |
Cost of materials and other (a) (b) | 56,093 | | | 500 | | | 2,784 | | | (444) | | | 58,933 | |
LCM inventory valuation adjustment (c) | (19) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (19) | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 3,944 | | | 85 | | | 406 | | | — | | | 4,435 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense (d) | 2,138 | | | 44 | | | 121 | | | — | | | 2,303 | |
Total cost of sales | 62,156 | | | 629 | | | 3,311 | | | (444) | | | 65,652 | |
Other operating expenses | 34 | | | — | | | 1 | | | — | | | 35 | |
General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | — | | | — | | | — | | | 756 | | | 756 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | — | | | — | | | — | | | 48 | | | 48 | |
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Operating income (loss) by segment | $ | (1,342) | | | $ | 638 | | | $ | (69) | | | $ | (806) | | | (1,579) | |
Other income, net | | | | | | | | | 132 | |
Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | | | | | | | | | (563) | |
Loss before income tax benefit | | | | | | | | | (2,010) | |
Income tax benefit | | | | | | | | | (903) | |
Net loss | | | | | | | | | (1,107) | |
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests (b) | | | | | | | | | 314 | |
Net loss attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | | | | | | | | | $ | (1,421) | |
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| Year Ended December 31, 2022 |
| Refining | | Renewable Diesel | | Ethanol | | Corporate and Eliminations | | Total |
Revenues: | | | | | | | | | |
Revenues from external customers | $ | 168,154 | | | $ | 3,483 | | | $ | 4,746 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 176,383 | |
Intersegment revenues | 56 | | | 2,018 | | | 740 | | | (2,814) | | | — | |
Total revenues | 168,210 | | | 5,501 | | | 5,486 | | | (2,814) | | | 176,383 | |
Cost of sales: | | | | | | | | | |
Cost of materials and other (a) | 144,588 | | | 4,350 | | | 4,628 | | | (2,796) | | | 150,770 | |
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Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 5,509 | | | 255 | | | 625 | | | — | | | 6,389 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense (c) | 2,247 | | | 122 | | | 59 | | | — | | | 2,428 | |
Total cost of sales | 152,344 | | | 4,727 | | | 5,312 | | | (2,796) | | | 159,587 | |
Asset impairment loss (d) | — | | | — | | | 61 | | | — | | | 61 | |
Other operating expenses | 63 | | | — | | | 3 | | | — | | | 66 | |
General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) (e) | — | | | — | | | — | | | 934 | | | 934 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | — | | | — | | | — | | | 45 | | | 45 | |
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Operating income by segment | $ | 15,803 | | | $ | 774 | | | $ | 110 | | | $ | (997) | | | 15,690 | |
Other income, net (f) | | | | | | | | | 179 | |
Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | | | | | | | | | (562) | |
Income before income tax expense | | | | | | | | | 15,307 | |
Income tax expense (g) | | | | | | | | | 3,428 | |
Net income | | | | | | | | | 11,879 | |
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests | | | | | | | | | 351 | |
Net income attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | | | | | | | | | $ | 11,528 | |
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See note references on pages 44 through 49.
Financial Highlights by Segment and Total Company (continued)
(millions of dollars)
| | | Year Ended December 31, 2019 | | Year Ended December 31, 2021 |
| | Refining | | Renewable Diesel | | Ethanol | | Corporate and Eliminations | | Total | | Refining | | Renewable Diesel | | Ethanol | | Corporate and Eliminations | | Total |
Revenues: | Revenues: | | | | | | | | | | Revenues: | | | | | | | | | |
Revenues from external customers | Revenues from external customers | $ | 103,746 | | | $ | 970 | | | $ | 3,606 | | | $ | 2 | | | $ | 108,324 | | Revenues from external customers | $ | 106,947 | | | $ | 1,874 | | | $ | 5,156 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 113,977 | |
Intersegment revenues | Intersegment revenues | 18 | | | 247 | | | 231 | | | (496) | | | — | | Intersegment revenues | 14 | | | 468 | | | 433 | | | (915) | | | — | |
Total revenues | Total revenues | 103,764 | | | 1,217 | | | 3,837 | | | (494) | | | 108,324 | | Total revenues | 106,961 | | | 2,342 | | | 5,589 | | | (915) | | | 113,977 | |
Cost of sales: | Cost of sales: | | Cost of sales: | |
Cost of materials and other (b) | Cost of materials and other (b) | 93,371 | | | 360 | | | 3,239 | | | (494) | | | 96,476 | | Cost of materials and other (b) | 97,759 | | | 1,438 | | | 4,428 | | | (911) | | | 102,714 | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 4,289 | | | 75 | | | 504 | | | — | | | 4,868 | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,062 | | | 50 | | | 90 | | | — | | | 2,202 | | |
| Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) (b) | | Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) (b) | 5,088 | | | 134 | | | 556 | | | (2) | | | 5,776 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense (c) | | Depreciation and amortization expense (c) | 2,169 | | | 58 | | | 131 | | | — | | | 2,358 | |
Total cost of sales | Total cost of sales | 99,722 | | | 485 | | | 3,833 | | | (494) | | | 103,546 | | Total cost of sales | 105,016 | | | 1,630 | | | 5,115 | | | (913) | | | 110,848 | |
Other operating expenses | Other operating expenses | 20 | | | — | | | 1 | | | — | | | 21 | | Other operating expenses | 83 | | | 3 | | | 1 | | | — | | | 87 | |
General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | — | | | — | | | — | | | 868 | | | 868 | | General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | — | | | — | | | — | | | 865 | | | 865 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | Depreciation and amortization expense | — | | | — | | | — | | | 53 | | | 53 | | Depreciation and amortization expense | — | | | — | | | — | | | 47 | | | 47 | |
Operating income by segment | Operating income by segment | $ | 4,022 | | | $ | 732 | | | $ | 3 | | | $ | (921) | | | 3,836 | | Operating income by segment | $ | 1,862 | | | $ | 709 | | | $ | 473 | | | $ | (914) | | | 2,130 | |
Other income, net (e) | | | | | | | | | 104 | | |
Other income, net (f) | | Other income, net (f) | | | | | | | | | 16 | |
Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | | (454) | | Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | | (603) | |
Income before income tax expense | Income before income tax expense | | 3,486 | | Income before income tax expense | | 1,543 | |
Income tax expense | | 702 | | |
Income tax expense (g) | | Income tax expense (g) | | 255 | |
Net income | Net income | | 2,784 | | Net income | | 1,288 | |
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests (b) | | 362 | | |
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests | | Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests | | 358 | |
Net income attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | Net income attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | | $ | 2,422 | | Net income attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | | $ | 930 | |
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See note references on pages 44 through 49.
Average Market Reference Prices and Differentials
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | | 2022 | | 2021 | |
Refining | Refining | | | | | Refining | | | | |
Feedstocks (dollars per barrel) | Feedstocks (dollars per barrel) | | | Feedstocks (dollars per barrel) | | |
Brent crude oil | Brent crude oil | $ | 43.15 | | | $ | 64.18 | | | Brent crude oil | $ | 98.86 | | | $ | 70.79 | | |
Brent less West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil | Brent less West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil | 3.84 | | | 7.15 | | | Brent less West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil | 4.43 | | | 2.83 | | |
Brent less WTI Houston crude oil | | Brent less WTI Houston crude oil | 2.82 | | | 1.91 | | |
Brent less Dated Brent crude oil | | Brent less Dated Brent crude oil | (2.22) | | | 0.03 | | |
Brent less Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude oil | Brent less Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude oil | 0.82 | | | (0.86) | | | Brent less Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude oil | 0.06 | | | 0.35 | | |
Brent less LLS crude oil | 1.91 | | | 1.47 | | | |
Brent less Argus Sour Crude Index (ASCI) crude oil | 3.26 | | | 3.56 | | | |
Brent less Argus Sour Crude Index crude oil | | Brent less Argus Sour Crude Index crude oil | 7.42 | | | 3.92 | | |
Brent less Maya crude oil | Brent less Maya crude oil | 6.89 | | | 6.57 | | | Brent less Maya crude oil | 11.68 | | | 6.48 | | |
LLS crude oil | 41.24 | | | 62.71 | | | |
LLS less ASCI crude oil | 1.35 | | | 2.09 | | | |
LLS less Maya crude oil | 4.98 | | | 5.10 | | | |
Brent less Western Canadian Select Houston crude oil | | Brent less Western Canadian Select Houston crude oil | 15.55 | | | 7.40 | | |
WTI crude oil | WTI crude oil | 39.31 | | | 57.03 | | | WTI crude oil | 94.43 | | | 67.97 | | |
| Natural gas (dollars per million British Thermal Units (MMBtu)) | 2.00 | | | 2.47 | | | |
Natural gas (dollars per million British Thermal Units) | | Natural gas (dollars per million British Thermal Units) | 5.83 | | | 7.85 | |
| Products (dollars per barrel) | | | |
Product margins (dollars per barrel) | | Product margins (dollars per barrel) | | |
U.S. Gulf Coast: | U.S. Gulf Coast: | | | U.S. Gulf Coast: | | |
Conventional Blendstock of Oxygenate Blending (CBOB) gasoline less Brent | 2.97 | | | 4.37 | | | |
CBOB gasoline less Brent | | CBOB gasoline less Brent | 17.26 | | | 13.66 | | |
Ultra-low-sulfur (ULS) diesel less Brent | Ultra-low-sulfur (ULS) diesel less Brent | 7.11 | | | 14.90 | | | Ultra-low-sulfur (ULS) diesel less Brent | 46.45 | | | 13.75 | | |
Propylene less Brent | Propylene less Brent | (12.12) | | | (22.31) | | | Propylene less Brent | (42.73) | | | (6.43) | | |
CBOB gasoline less LLS | 4.88 | | | 5.84 | | | |
ULS diesel less LLS | 9.02 | | | 16.37 | | | |
Propylene less LLS | (10.22) | | | (20.84) | | | |
| U.S. Mid-Continent: | U.S. Mid-Continent: | | | U.S. Mid-Continent: | | |
CBOB gasoline less WTI | CBOB gasoline less WTI | 6.96 | | | 13.62 | | | CBOB gasoline less WTI | 23.60 | | | 17.36 | | |
ULS diesel less WTI | ULS diesel less WTI | 12.11 | | | 22.77 | | | ULS diesel less WTI | 51.83 | | | 18.70 | | |
North Atlantic: | North Atlantic: | | | North Atlantic: | | |
CBOB gasoline less Brent | CBOB gasoline less Brent | 5.50 | | | 7.20 | | | CBOB gasoline less Brent | 26.96 | | | 16.89 | | |
ULS diesel less Brent | ULS diesel less Brent | 9.17 | | | 17.22 | | | ULS diesel less Brent | 57.01 | | | 15.91 | | |
U.S. West Coast: | U.S. West Coast: | | | U.S. West Coast: | | |
CARBOB 87 gasoline less ANS | CARBOB 87 gasoline less ANS | 10.33 | | | 16.28 | | | CARBOB 87 gasoline less ANS | 39.10 | | | 24.17 | | |
CARB diesel less ANS | CARB diesel less ANS | 12.42 | | | 19.30 | | | CARB diesel less ANS | 48.75 | | | 17.60 | | |
CARBOB 87 gasoline less WTI | CARBOB 87 gasoline less WTI | 13.36 | | | 24.29 | | | CARBOB 87 gasoline less WTI | 43.47 | | | 26.64 | | |
CARB diesel less WTI | CARB diesel less WTI | 15.44 | | | 27.31 | | | CARB diesel less WTI | 53.12 | | | 20.08 | | |
Average Market Reference Prices and Differentials (continued)
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | | 2022 | | 2021 | |
Renewable diesel | | | | | |
Renewable Diesel | | Renewable Diesel | | | | |
New York Mercantile Exchange ULS diesel (dollars per gallon) | New York Mercantile Exchange ULS diesel (dollars per gallon) | $ | 1.25 | | | $ | 1.94 | | | New York Mercantile Exchange ULS diesel (dollars per gallon) | $ | 3.54 | | | $ | 2.07 | | |
Biodiesel RIN (dollars per RIN) | Biodiesel RIN (dollars per RIN) | 0.64 | | | 0.48 | | | Biodiesel RIN (dollars per RIN) | 1.67 | | | 1.49 | | |
California Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (dollars per metric ton) | 200.12 | | | 196.82 | | | |
California LCFS (dollars per metric ton) | | California LCFS (dollars per metric ton) | 98.73 | | | 177.78 | | |
Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean oil (dollars per pound) | Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean oil (dollars per pound) | 0.32 | | | 0.29 | | | Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean oil (dollars per pound) | 0.71 | | | 0.58 | | |
| Ethanol | Ethanol | | | Ethanol | | |
| CBOT corn (dollars per bushel) | CBOT corn (dollars per bushel) | 3.64 | | | 3.84 | | | CBOT corn (dollars per bushel) | 6.94 | | | 5.80 | | |
New York Harbor (NYH) ethanol (dollars per gallon) | 1.36 | | | 1.53 | | | |
New York Harbor ethanol (dollars per gallon) | | New York Harbor ethanol (dollars per gallon) | 2.57 | | | 2.49 | | |
20202022 Compared to 20192021
Total Company, Corporate, and Other
The following table includes selected financial data for the total company, corporate, and other for 20202022 and 2019.2021. The selected financial data is derived from the Financial Highlights by Segment and Total Company tables, on pages 37 and 38, unless otherwise noted.
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | Change | |
Revenues | $ | 64,912 | | | $ | 108,324 | | | $ | (43,412) | | |
Cost of sales (see notes (a) through (c) beginning on page 44) | 65,652 | | | 103,546 | | | (37,894) | | |
General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) | 756 | | | 868 | | | (112) | | |
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Operating income (loss) | (1,579) | | | 3,836 | | | (5,415) | | |
Adjusted operating income (loss) (see note (f) on page 49) | (1,309) | | | 3,699 | | | (5,008) | | |
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Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | (563) | | | (454) | | | (109) | | |
Income tax expense (benefit) | (903) | | | 702 | | | (1,605) | | |
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests (see note (b) on page 44) | 314 | | | 362 | | | (48) | | |
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | Change |
Revenues | $ | 176,383 | | | $ | 113,977 | | | $ | 62,406 | |
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Cost of sales (see notes (a) through (c)) | 159,587 | | | 110,848 | | | 48,739 | |
General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) (see note (e)) | 934 | | | 865 | | | 69 | |
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Operating income | 15,690 | | | 2,130 | | | 13,560 | |
Adjusted operating income (see note (h)) | 15,710 | | | 2,264 | | | 13,446 | |
Other income, net (see note (f)) | 179 | | | 16 | | | 163 | |
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Income tax expense (see note (g)) | 3,428 | | | 255 | | | 3,173 | |
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Revenues decreasedincreased by $43.4$62.4 billion in 20202022 compared to 20192021 primarily due to decreasesincreases in refined petroleum product prices for the petroleum-based transportation fuels associated with sales made by our refiningRefining segment. The decreaseThis increase in revenues was partially offset by a decreasean increase in cost of sales of $37.9$48.7 billion,which was primarily due to increases in crude oil and a decreaseother feedstock costs, and an increase in general and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) of $112$69 million, which was primarily due to an increase of $30 million in certain employee compensation expenses and a charge of $20 million for an environmental reserve adjustment (see note (e)). These changes resulted in a $5.4$13.6 billion decreaseincrease in operating income, from $3.8 billion of operating income in 2019 to an operating loss of $1.6$2.1 billion in 2020. The decrease2021 to $15.7 billion in cost of sales was primarily due to decreases in crude oil and other feedstock costs, partially offset by the $224 million LIFO liquidation adjustment, which is described in note (a) on page 44.2022.
Adjusted operating income decreasedincreased by $5.0$13.4 billion, from $3.7$2.3 billion in 2021 to $15.7 billion in 2022. The components of this $13.4 billion increase in adjusted operating income are discussed by segment in 2019 to an adjusted operating loss of $1.3 billion in 2020. The $5.0 billion decrease includes a $112 million decrease in general and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortizationthe segment analyses that follow.
expense) associated with our corporate activities, and this decrease is discussed below. The remaining components of “Other income, net” increased by $163 million in 2022 compared to 2021 due to the decrease in adjusted operating income are discussed by segmentitems noted in the segment analysis that follows.following table (see note(f) for explanations of these components):
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | Change |
Net benefit (charge) from early redemption and retirement of debt | $ | 14 | | | $ | (193) | | | $ | 207 | |
Pension settlement charge | (58) | | | — | | | (58) | |
Asset impairment loss associated with the cancellation of a pipeline extension project by Diamond Pipeline LLC (a nonconsolidated joint venture) | — | | | (24) | | | 24 |
Gain on sale of a 24.99 percent membership interest in MVP Terminalling, LLC (MVP) (a nonconsolidated joint venture) | — | | | 62 | | | (62) | |
Interest income, equity income on joint ventures, and other | 223 | | | 171 | | | 52 | |
Other income, net | $ | 179 | | | $ | 16 | | | $ | 163 | |
General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) decreased by $112 million in 2020 compared to 2019 primarily due to a decrease in employee incentive compensation expenses of $37 million, a decrease in charitable contributions of $20 million, lower advertising expenses of $18 million, and lower taxes other than income taxes of $16 million, as well as the effect from transaction costs of $7 million associated with the Merger Transaction with VLP in 2019.
“Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest” increased by $109 million in 2020 compared to 2019 primarily due to interest expense associated with public debt offerings in 2020 and finance leases that commenced in the latter part of 2019 and the first nine months of 2020. See Notes 6 and 10 in Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional details.
Income tax expense decreasedincreased by $1.6$3.2 billion in 20202022 compared to 20192021 primarily as a result of loweran increase in income before income tax expense. Our effective tax rate was 45 percent in 2020 compared to 20 percent in 2019. The effective tax rate for 2020 was impacted by a U.S. federal tax net operating loss (NOL) carried back to 2015 when the U.S. federal statutory rate was 35 percent, as described in Note 16 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests decreased by $48 million in 2020 compared to 2019 primarily due to lower earnings associated with DGD. The decrease in DGD’s earnings is primarily due to the effect of a $156 million benefit for the 2018 blender’s tax credit recognized in 2019, of which 50 percent is attributable to the holder of the noncontrolling interest, as described in note (b) on page 44.
Refining Segment Results
The following table includes selected financial and operating data of our refiningRefining segment for 20202022 and 2019.2021. The selected financial data is derived from the Financial Highlights by Segment and Total Company tables, on pages 37 and 38, respectively, unless otherwise noted.
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | Change |
Operating income (loss) | $ | (1,342) | | | $ | 4,022 | | | $ | (5,364) | |
Adjusted operating income (loss) (see note (f) on page 48) | (1,105) | | | 4,040 | | | (5,145) | |
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Refining margin (see note (f) on page 46) | $ | 4,977 | | | $ | 10,391 | | | $ | (5,414) | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 3,944 | | | 4,289 | | | (345) | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,138 | | | 2,062 | | | 76 | |
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Throughput volumes (thousand BPD) (see note (g) on page 49) | 2,555 | | | 2,952 | | | (397) | |
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | Change |
Operating income | $ | 15,803 | | | $ | 1,862 | | | $ | 13,941 | |
Adjusted operating income (see note (h)) | 15,762 | | | 1,944 | | | 13,818 | |
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Refining margin (see note (h)) | $ | 23,518 | | | $ | 9,201 | | | $ | 14,317 | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) (see note (b)) | 5,509 | | | 5,088 | | | 421 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,247 | | | 2,169 | | | 78 | |
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Throughput volumes (thousand BPD) (see note (i)) | 2,953 | | | 2,787 | | | 166 | |
Refining segment operating income decreasedincreased by $5.4$13.9 billion in 2020;2022 compared to 2021; however, refiningRefining segment adjusted operating income, which excludes the adjustments in the table in note (f) on page 48, decreased
(h), increased by $5.1$13.8 billion in 20202022 compared to 2019.2021. The components of this decrease,increase in the adjusted results, along with the reasons for the changes in those components, are outlined below.
•Refining segment margin decreasedincreased by $5.4$14.3 billion in 20202022 compared to 2019.2021.
Refining segment margin is primarily affected by the prices offor the refined petroleum productspetroleum-based transportation fuels that we sell and the cost of crude oil and other feedstocks that we process. The table on page 3945 reflects market reference prices and differentials that we believe had a material impact on the change in our refiningRefining segment margin in 20202022 compared to 2019.2021.
The decreaseincrease in refiningRefining segment margin was primarily due to the following:
◦A decreaseAn increase in distillate (primarily diesel) margins had an unfavorablea favorable impact of approximately $3.4$11.8 billion.
◦A decrease in gasoline margins had an unfavorable impact of approximately $1.7 billion.
◦A decrease in throughput volumes of 397,000 BPD had an unfavorable impact of $773 million. As noted in “OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK—Overview—Business Operations Update” on pages 33 through 35, as a result of the economic disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic, we reduced the amount of crude oil processed at our refineries and limited the production of gasoline and jet fuel at certain of our refineries during the early months of the pandemic. While we have since increased the production of most of our products and restarted the gasoline-making units that we had temporarily idled at certain of our refineries in order to align with increasing demand for most of our products, we expect to continue to operate most of our refineries at reduced rates.
◦An increase in the cost of biofuel credits (primarily RINs in the U.S.)gasoline margins had an unfavorablea favorable impact of $330 million. See Note 21 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on our government and regulatory compliance programs.approximately $2.4 billion.
◦HigherAn increase in throughput volumes of 166,000 barrels per day had a favorable impact of approximately $1.3 billion.
◦Lower margins on other products had a favorablean unfavorable impact of approximately $1.1 billion.
•Refining segment operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) decreasedincreased by $345$421 million primarily due to lower natural gas and electricityincreases in costs of $161compliance with environmental emissions programs associated with the operations of certain of our refineries of $121 million, lower chemicalchemicals and catalyst costs of $78$103 million, lower maintenance expensesenergy costs of $40$89 million, and lower employee incentive compensation costs of $28 million. The decrease in operating expenses was primarily due to lower production.
•Refining segment depreciation and amortization expense associated with our cost of sales increased by $76 million primarily due to an increase in depreciationmaintenance expense of $118 million associated with capital projects that were completed and finance leases that commenced in the latter part of 2019 and the first nine months of 2020, partially offset by lower refinery turnaround and catalyst amortization expense of $33$84 million.
Renewable Diesel Segment Results
The following table includes selected financial and operating data of our renewable dieselRenewable Diesel segment for 20202022 and 2019.2021. The selected financial data is derived from the Financial Highlights by Segment and Total Company tables, on pages 37 and 38, respectively, unless otherwise noted.
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | Change |
Operating income | $ | 638 | | | $ | 732 | | | $ | (94) | |
Adjusted operating income (see note (f) on page 48) | 638 | | | 576 | | | 62 | |
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Renewable diesel margin (see note (f) on page 47) | $ | 767 | | | $ | 701 | | | $ | 66 | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 85 | | | 75 | | | 10 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 44 | | | 50 | | | (6) | |
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Sales volumes (thousand gallons per day) (see note (g) on page 49) | 787 | | | 760 | | | 27 | |
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | Change |
Operating income | $ | 774 | | | $ | 709 | | | $ | 65 | |
Adjusted operating income (see note (h)) | 774 | | | 712 | | | 62 | |
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Renewable Diesel margin (see note (h)) | $ | 1,151 | | | $ | 904 | | | $ | 247 | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 255 | | | 134 | | | 121 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 122 | | | 58 | | | 64 | |
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Sales volumes (thousand gallons per day) (see note (i)) | 2,175 | | | 1,014 | | | 1,161 | |
Renewable dieselDiesel segment operating income decreasedincreased by $94$65 million in 2020;2022 compared to 2021; however, renewable dieselRenewable Diesel segment adjusted operating income, which excludes the adjustment in the table in note (f) on page 48,(h), increased by $62 million in 20202022 compared to 2019.2021. The components of this increase in the adjusted results, along with the reasons for the changes in those components, are outlined below.
•Renewable Diesel segment margin increased by $247 million in 2022 compared to 2021.
Renewable Diesel segment margin is primarily affected by the price for the renewable diesel that we sell and the cost of the feedstocks that we process. The table on page 46 reflects market reference prices that we believe had a material impact on the change in our Renewable Diesel segment margin in 2022 compared to 2021.
The increase in Renewable Diesel segment margin was primarily due to higher renewable diesel segment margin.the following:
Renewable diesel segment margin increased by $66◦An increase in sales volumes of 1.2 million in 2020 compared to 2019.gallons per day had a favorable impact of approximately $1.3 billion. The increase in sales volumes was primarily due to the additional production capacity resulting from the expansion of the DGD St. Charles Plant and the completion of the new DGD Port Arthur Plant that commenced operations in the fourth quarters of 2021 and 2022, respectively.
◦Higher renewable diesel prices had a favorable impact from commodity derivative instruments associated with our priceof approximately $749 million.
◦An increase in the cost of the feedstocks we process had an unfavorable impact of approximately $1.6 billion.
◦Price risk management activities.activities had an unfavorable impact of $241 million. We recognized a hedge gainloss of $34$287 million in 20202022 compared to a hedge loss of $24$46 million in 2019, resulting in a favorable change of $58 million between the years.2021.
•Renewable Diesel segment operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) increased by $121 million primarily due to increased costs resulting from the expansion of the DGD St. Charles Plant and the completion of the DGD Port Arthur Plant that commenced operations in the fourth quarters of 2021 and 2022, respectively.
•Renewable Diesel segment depreciation and amortization expense increased by $64 million primarily due to depreciation expense of $44 million associated with the expansion of the DGD St. Charles Plant that commenced operations in the fourth quarter of 2021 and an increase in depreciation expense of $14 million associated with finance leases.
Ethanol Segment Results
The following table includes selected financial and operating data of our ethanolEthanol segment for 20202022 and 2019.2021. The selected financial data is derived from the Financial Highlights by Segment and Total Company tables, on pages 37 and 38, respectively, unless otherwise noted.
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | Change |
Operating income (loss) | $ | (69) | | | $ | 3 | | | $ | (72) | |
Adjusted operating income (loss) (see note (f) on page 48) | (36) | | | 4 | | | (40) | |
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Ethanol margin (see note (f) on page 47) | $ | 461 | | | $ | 598 | | | $ | (137) | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 406 | | | 504 | | | (98) | |
Depreciation and amortization expense (see note (d) on page 45) | 121 | | | 90 | | | 31 | |
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Production volumes (thousand gallons per day) (see note (g) on page 49) | 3,588 | | | 4,269 | | | (681) | |
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | Change |
Operating income | $ | 110 | | | $ | 473 | | | $ | (363) | |
Adjusted operating income (see note (h)) | 151 | | | 522 | | | (371) | |
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Ethanol margin (see note (h)) | $ | 858 | | | $ | 1,161 | | | $ | (303) | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) (see note (b)) | 625 | | | 556 | | | 69 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense (see note (c)) | 59 | | | 131 | | | (72) | |
Asset impairment loss (see note (d)) | 61 | | | — | | | 61 | |
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Production volumes (thousand gallons per day) (see note (i)) | 3,866 | | | 3,949 | | | (83) | |
Ethanol segment operating income decreased by $72$363 million in 2020;2022 compared to 2021; however, ethanolEthanol segment adjusted operating income, which excludes the adjustments in the table in note (f) on page 48, (h),
decreased by $40$371 million in 20202022 compared to 2019.2021. The components of this decrease in the adjusted results, along with the reasons for the changes in these components, are outlined below.
•Ethanol segment margin decreased by $137$303 million in 20202022 compared to 2019.2021.
Ethanol segment margin is primarily affected by prices offor the ethanol and corn related co-products that we sell and the cost of corn that we process. The table on page 4046 reflects market reference prices that we believe had a material impact on the change in our ethanolEthanol segment margin in 20202022 compared to 2019.2021.
The decrease in ethanolEthanol segment margin was primarily due to the following:
◦Lower ethanolHigher corn prices had an unfavorable impact of approximately $166$572 million.
◦A decrease in production volumes of 681,000 gallons per day had an unfavorable impact of approximately $92 million. As noted in “OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK—Overview—Business Operations Update” on pages 33 through 35, as a result of the economic disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic, eight of our ethanol plants were temporarily idled and production was reduced at our remaining ethanol plants during the early months of the pandemic. However, demand for ethanol began to recover during the latter part of 2020, and as a result, most of our ethanol plants have recently increased production to meet current product demand.
◦Higher prices onfor the co-products that we produce, primarily DDGs and inedible distillers corn oil, had a favorable impact of approximately $79$195 million.
◦Lower cornHigher ethanol prices had a favorable impact of approximately $45$82 million.
•Ethanol segment operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) decreasedincreased by $98$69 million primarily due to lower natural gas and electricityincreases in energy costs of $43$48 million lower chemicaland chemicals and catalyst costsexpense of $23 million, and lower maintenance expenses of $15$18 million. The decrease in operating expenses was primarily due to lower production.
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The following notes relate to references on pages 32 43through 44.49.
(a)CostUnder the RFS program, the EPA is required to set annual quotas for the volume of materialsrenewable fuels that obligated parties, such as us, must blend into petroleum-based transportation fuels consumed in the U.S. The quotas are used to determine an obligated party’s RVO. The EPA released a final rule on June 3, 2022 that, among other things, modified the volume standards for 2020 and, otherfor the first time, established volume standards for 2021 and 2022.
In 2020, we recognized the cost of the RVO using the 2020 quotas set by the EPA at that time, and in 2021 we recognized the cost of the RVO using our estimates of the quotas. As a result of the final rule released by the EPA as noted above, we recognized a benefit of $104 million in 2022, of which a benefit of $105 million and a net charge of $1 million were related to the modification of the 2020 and 2021 quotas, respectively.
(b)In mid-February 2021, many of our refineries and plants were impacted to varying extents by the severe cold, utility disruptions, and higher energy costs arising out of Winter Storm Uri. The higher energy costs resulted from an increase in the prices of natural gas and electricity that significantly exceeded rates that we consider normal, such as the average rates we incurred the month preceding the storm. As a result, our operating income for the year ended December 31, 20202021 includes a chargeestimated excess energy costs of $224 million related to the liquidation of LIFO inventory layers attributable to our refining and ethanol segments. Our inventory levels decreased throughout 2020 due to lower production resulting from lower demand for our products caused by the negative economic impacts of COVID-19 on our business. As a result, our inventory levels at December 31, 2020 were below their December 31, 2019 levels. Of the $224 million charge recognized for the year ended December 31, 2020, $222 million and $2 million is attributable to our refining and ethanol segments, respectively.$579 million.
(b)Cost of materials and other for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 includes a benefit related to the blender’s tax credit. The legislation authorizing the credit through December 31, 2022 was passed and signed into law in December 2019. As a result, for the year ended December 31, 2020, we recognized a benefit of $297 million related to the blender’s tax credit attributable to renewable diesel volumes blended during 2020. The legislation also reinstated the credit retroactively to volumes blended during 2019 and 2018, and
consequently, we recognized a benefit of $449 million in December 2019 for the blender’s tax credit attributable to volumes blended during those two years. The entire amount was recognized by us in December 2019 because the law was enacted in that month.
The above-mentioned pre-tax benefits areestimated excess energy charge is reflected in our statement of income line items and attributable to our reportable segments and stockholders as follows:
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 |
Blender’s tax credit by reportable segment | | | |
Refining: | | | |
Amount related to reporting period | $ | 9 | | | $ | 16 | |
Amount related to prior periods but recognized in reporting period | — | | | 2 | |
Total | 9 | | | 18 | |
Renewable diesel: | | | |
Amount related to reporting period | 288 | | | 275 | |
Amount related to prior periods but recognized in reporting period | — | | | 156 | |
Total | 288 | | | 431 | |
Total recognized in reporting period | $ | 297 | | | $ | 449 | |
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Interests to which blender’s tax credit is attributable | | | |
Valero Energy Corporation stockholders: | | | |
Amount related to reporting period | $ | 153 | | | $ | 154 | |
Amount related to prior periods but recognized in reporting period | — | | | 80 | |
Total | 153 | | | 234 | |
Noncontrolling interest: | | | |
Amount related to reporting period | 144 | | | 137 | |
Amount related to prior periods but recognized in reporting period | — | | | 78 | |
Total | 144 | | | 215 | |
Total recognized in reporting period | $ | 297 | | | $ | 449 | |
(c)The market value of our inventories accounted for under the LIFO method fell below their historical cost on an aggregate basis as of March 31, 2020. As a result, we recorded an LCM inventory valuation adjustment of $2.5 billion in March 2020. The market value of our LIFO inventories improved due to the subsequent recovery in market prices, which resulted in a full reversal of the reserve by September 30, 2020. The LCM inventory valuation adjustment for the year ended December 31, 2020 reflects a net benefit of $19 million due solely to the foreign currency translation effect of the portion of the LCM inventory valuation adjustments attributable to our international operations.2021 as follows (in millions):
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| Refining | | Renewable Diesel | | Ethanol | | Total |
Cost of materials and other | $ | 47 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 47 | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) | 478 | | | — | | | 54 | | | 532 | |
Total estimated excess energy costs | $ | 525 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 54 | | | $ | 579 | |
(d)(c)Depreciation and amortization expense forincludes the following:
◦a gain of $23 million in the year ended December 31, 2020 includes $302022 on the sale of our ethanol plant located in Jefferson, Wisconsin (Jefferson ethanol plant); and
◦accelerated depreciation of $48 million in accelerated depreciationthe year ended December 31, 2021 related to a change in the estimated useful life of one of our Jefferson ethanol plants.plant.
(d)Our ethanol plant located in Lakota, Iowa (Lakota ethanol plant) is currently configured to produce a higher-grade ethanol product, as opposed to fuel-grade ethanol, suitable for hand sanitizer blending or industrial purposes that has a higher market value than fuel-grade ethanol. During 2022, demand for higher-grade ethanol declined and had a negative impact on the profitability of the plant. As a result, we tested the recoverability of the carrying value of the Lakota ethanol plant and concluded that it was impaired. Therefore, we reduced the carrying value of the plant to its estimated fair value and recognized an asset impairment loss of $61 million in the year ended December 31, 2022.
(e)“Other income, net”General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) for the year ended December 31, 20192022 includes a $22charge of $20 million for an environmental reserve adjustment associated with a non-operating site.
(f)“Other income, net” includes the following:
◦a pension settlement charge of $58 million in the year ended December 31, 2022 resulting from a greater number of employees retiring in 2022 who elected lump sum benefit payments from one of our qualified U.S. defined benefit pension plans than estimated. We believe that the increase in lump sum elections was driven by the negative impact to lump sum payments in 2023 that will result from higher interest rates in 2022;
◦a net benefit of $14 million in the year ended December 31, 2022 related to the early retirement of approximately $3.1 billion aggregate principal amount of various series of our senior notes;
◦a charge of $193 million in the year ended December 31, 2021 related to the early redemption and retirement of $850 millionapproximately $2.1 billion aggregate principal amount of various series of our 6.125senior notes;
◦a gain of $62 million in the year ended December 31, 2021 on the sale of a 24.99 percent senior notes due February 1, 2020.membership interest in MVP, a nonconsolidated joint venture; and
◦a charge of $24 million in the year ended December 31, 2021 representing our portion of the asset impairment loss recognized by Diamond Pipeline LLC, a nonconsolidated joint venture, resulting from the joint venture’s cancellation of its pipeline extension project.
(f)(g)Income tax expense includes the following:
◦deferred income tax expense of $51 million in the year ended December 31, 2022 associated with the recognition of a deferred tax liability for foreign withholding tax on the anticipated repatriation of cash held by one of our international subsidiaries that we have deemed will not be permanently reinvested in our operations in that country; and
◦deferred income tax expense of $64 million in the year ended December 31, 2021 related to certain statutory income tax rate changes (primarily an increase in the U.K. rate from 19 percent to 25 percent effective in 2023) that were enacted in 2021 and resulted in the remeasurement of our deferred tax liabilities.
(h)We use certain financial measures (as noted below) that are not defined under U.S. GAAP and are considered to be non-GAAP financial measures.
We have defined these non-GAAP measures and believe they are useful to the external users of our financial statements, including industry analysts, investors, lenders, and rating agencies. We believe these measures are useful to assess our ongoing financial performance because, when reconciled to their most comparable U.S. GAAP measures, they provide improved comparability between periods through the exclusion ofafter adjusting for certain items that we believe are not indicative of our core operating performance and that may obscure our underlying business results and trends. These non-GAAP measures should not be considered as alternatives to their most comparable U.S. GAAP measures nor should they be considered in isolation or as a substitute for an analysis of our results of operations as reported under U.S. GAAP. In addition, these non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies because we may define them differently, which diminishes their utility.
Non-GAAP financial measures are as follows:
◦•Refining margin is defined as refiningRefining segment operating income (loss) excluding the blender’s tax credit not attributable to volumes blended during the applicable period, the LIFO liquidation adjustment, the LCM inventory valuationmodification of RVO adjustment, operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense), depreciation and amortization expense, and other operating expenses, as reflected in the table below.
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| Year Ended December 31, | | |
| 2020 | | | | 2019 | | | | | | |
Reconciliation of refining operating income (loss) to refining margin | | | | | | | | | | | |
Refining operating income (loss) | $ | (1,342) | | | | | $ | 4,022 | | | | | | | |
Adjustments: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Blender’s tax credit (see note (b)) | — | | | | | (2) | | | | | | | |
LIFO liquidation adjustment (see note (a)) | 222 | | | | | — | | | | | | | |
LCM inventory valuation adjustment (see note (c)) | (19) | | | | | — | | | | | | | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) | 3,944 | | | | | 4,289 | | | | | | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,138 | | | | | 2,062 | | | | | | | |
Other operating expenses | 34 | | | | | 20 | | | | | | | |
Refining margin | $ | 4,977 | | | | | $ | 10,391 | | | | | | | |
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| Year Ended December 31, | | |
| 2022 | | | | 2021 | | | | | | |
Reconciliation of Refining operating income to Refining margin | | | | | | | | | | | |
Refining operating income | $ | 15,803 | | | | | $ | 1,862 | | | | | | | |
Adjustments: | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Modification of RVO (see note (a)) | (104) | | | | | (1) | | | | | | | |
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Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) (see note (b)) | 5,509 | | | | | 5,088 | | | | | | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,247 | | | | | 2,169 | | | | | | | |
Other operating expenses | 63 | | | | | 83 | | | | | | | |
Refining margin | $ | 23,518 | | | | | $ | 9,201 | | | | | | | |
◦•Renewable dieselDiesel margin is defined as renewable dieselRenewable Diesel segment operating income excluding the blender’s tax credit not attributable to volumes blended during the applicable period, operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense), and depreciation and amortization expense, as reflected in the table below.
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| Year Ended December 31, | | |
| 2020 | | | | 2019 | | | | | | |
Reconciliation of renewable diesel operating income to renewable diesel margin | | | | | | | | | | | |
Renewable diesel operating income | $ | 638 | | | | | $ | 732 | | | | | | | |
Adjustments: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Blender’s tax credit (see note (b)) | — | | | | | (156) | | | | | | | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) | 85 | | | | | 75 | | | | | | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 44 | | | | | 50 | | | | | | | |
Renewable diesel margin | $ | 767 | | | | | $ | 701 | | | | | | | |
◦Ethanol margin is defined as ethanol operating income (loss) excluding the LIFO liquidation adjustment, operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense), depreciation and amortization expense, and other operating expenses, as reflected in the table below.
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| Year Ended December 31, | | |
| 2020 | | | | 2019 | | | | | | |
Reconciliation of ethanol operating income (loss) to ethanol margin | | | | | | | | | | | |
Ethanol operating income (loss) | $ | (69) | | | | | $ | 3 | | | | | | | |
Adjustments: | | | | | | | | | | | |
LIFO liquidation adjustment (see note (a)) | 2 | | | | | — | | | | | | | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) | 406 | | | | | 504 | | | | | | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense (see note (d)) | 121 | | | | | 90 | | | | | | | |
Other operating expenses | 1 | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | |
Ethanol margin | $ | 461 | | | | | $ | 598 | | | | | | | |
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Reconciliation of Renewable Diesel operating income to Renewable Diesel margin | | | |
Renewable Diesel operating income | $ | 774 | | | $ | 709 | |
Adjustments: | | | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) | 255 | | | 134 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 122 | | | 58 | |
Other operating expenses | — | | | 3 | |
Renewable Diesel margin | $ | 1,151 | | | $ | 904 | |
•Ethanol margin is defined as Ethanol segment operating income excluding operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense), depreciation and amortization expense, the asset impairment loss, and other operating expenses, as reflected in the table below.
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| Year Ended December 31, | | |
| 2022 | | | | 2021 | | | | | | |
Reconciliation of Ethanol operating income to Ethanol margin | | | | | | | | | | | |
Ethanol operating income | $ | 110 | | | | | $ | 473 | | | | | | | |
Adjustments: | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) (see note (b)) | 625 | | | | | 556 | | | | | | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense (see note (c)) | 59 | | | | | 131 | | | | | | | |
Asset impairment loss (see note (d)) | 61 | | | | | — | | | | | | | |
Other operating expenses | 3 | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | |
Ethanol margin | $ | 858 | | | | | $ | 1,161 | | | | | | | |
•Adjusted Refining operating income is defined as Refining segment operating income excluding the modification of RVO adjustment and other operating expenses, as reflected in the table below.
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Reconciliation of Refining operating income to adjusted Refining operating income | | | |
Refining operating income | $ | 15,803 | | | $ | 1,862 | |
Adjustments: | | | |
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Modification of RVO (see note (a)) | (104) | | | (1) | |
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Other operating expenses | 63 | | | 83 | |
Adjusted Refining operating income | $ | 15,762 | | | $ | 1,944 | |
◦•Adjusted refiningRenewable Diesel operating income (loss) is defined as refiningRenewable Diesel segment operating income (loss)excluding other operating expenses, as reflected in the table below.
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Reconciliation of Renewable Diesel operating income to adjusted Renewable Diesel operating income | | | |
Renewable Diesel operating income | $ | 774 | | | $ | 709 | |
Adjustment: Other operating expenses | — | | | 3 | |
Adjusted Renewable Diesel operating income | $ | 774 | | | $ | 712 | |
•Adjusted Ethanol operating income is defined as Ethanol segment operating income excluding the blender’s tax credit not attributable to volumes blended duringgain on sale of ethanol plant, the applicable period,asset impairment loss, the LIFO liquidationchange in estimated useful life of ethanol plant, and other operating expenses, as reflected in the table below.
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Reconciliation of Ethanol operating income to adjusted Ethanol operating income | | | |
Ethanol operating income | $ | 110 | | | $ | 473 | |
Adjustments: | | | |
Gain on sale of ethanol plant (see note (c)) | (23) | | | — | |
Asset impairment loss (see note (d)) | 61 | | | — | |
Change in estimated useful life of ethanol plant (see note (c)) | — | | | 48 | |
Other operating expenses | 3 | | | 1 | |
Adjusted Ethanol operating income | $ | 151 | | | $ | 522 | |
•Adjusted operating income is defined as total company operating income excluding the modification of RVO adjustment, the LCM inventory valuationgain on sale of ethanol plant, the asset impairment loss, the change in estimated useful life of ethanol plant, the environmental reserve adjustment, and other operating expenses, as reflected in the table below.
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| Year Ended December 31, | | |
| 2020 | | | | 2019 | | | | | | |
Reconciliation of refining operating income (loss) to adjusted refining operating income | | | | | | | | | | | |
Refining operating income (loss) | $ | (1,342) | | | | | $ | 4,022 | | | | | | | |
Adjustments: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Blender’s tax credit (see note (b)) | — | | | | | (2) | | | | | | | |
LIFO liquidation adjustment (see note (a)) | 222 | | | | | — | | | | | | | |
LCM inventory valuation adjustment (see note (c)) | (19) | | | | | — | | | | | | | |
Other operating expenses | 34 | | | | | 20 | | | | | | | |
Adjusted refining operating income (loss) | $ | (1,105) | | | | | $ | 4,040 | | | | | | | |
◦Adjusted renewable diesel operating income is defined as renewable diesel segment operating income excluding the blender’s tax credit not attributable to volumes blended during the applicable period, as reflected in the table below.
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| Year Ended December 31, | | |
| 2020 | | | | 2019 | | | | | | |
Reconciliation of renewable diesel operating income to adjusted renewable diesel operating income | | | | | | | | | | | |
Renewable diesel operating income | $ | 638 | | | | | $ | 732 | | | | | | | |
Adjustments: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Blender’s tax credit (see note (b)) | — | | | | | (156) | | | | | | | |
Adjusted renewable diesel operating income | $ | 638 | | | | | $ | 576 | | | | | | | |
◦Adjusted ethanol operating income (loss) is defined as ethanol segment operating income (loss) excluding the LIFO liquidation adjustment, the change in estimated useful life, and other operating expenses, as reflected in the table below.
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| Year Ended December 31, | | |
| 2020 | | | | 2019 | | | | | | |
Reconciliation of ethanol operating income (loss) to adjusted ethanol operating income (loss) | | | | | | | | | | | |
Ethanol operating income (loss) | $ | (69) | | | | | $ | 3 | | | | | | | |
Adjustments: | | | | | | | | | | | |
LIFO liquidation adjustment (see note (a)) | 2 | | | | | — | | | | | | | |
Change in estimated useful life (see note (d)) | 30 | | | | | — | | | | | | | |
Other operating expenses | 1 | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | |
Adjusted ethanol operating income (loss) | $ | (36) | | | | | $ | 4 | | | | | | | |
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Reconciliation of total company operating income to adjusted operating income | | | |
Total company operating income | $ | 15,690 | | | $ | 2,130 | |
Adjustments: | | | |
Modification of RVO (see note (a)) | (104) | | | (1) | |
Gain on sale of ethanol plant (see note (c)) | (23) | | | — | |
Asset impairment loss (see note (d)) | 61 | | | — | |
Change in estimated useful life of ethanol plant (see note (c)) | — | | | 48 | |
Environmental reserve adjustment (see note (e)) | 20 | | | — | |
Other operating expenses | 66 | | | 87 | |
Adjusted operating income | $ | 15,710 | | | $ | 2,264 | |
◦Adjusted operating income (loss) is defined as total company operating income (loss) excluding the blender’s tax credit not attributable to volumes blended during the applicable period, the LIFO liquidation adjustment, the LCM inventory valuation adjustment, the change in estimated useful life, and other operating expenses, as reflected in the table below.
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| Year Ended December 31, | | |
| 2020 | | | | 2019 | | | | | | |
Reconciliation of total company operating income (loss) to adjusted operating income (loss) | | | | | | | | | | | |
Total company operating income (loss) | $ | (1,579) | | | | | $ | 3,836 | | | | | | | |
Adjustments: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Blender’s tax credit (see note (b)) | — | | | | | (158) | | | | | | | |
LIFO liquidation adjustment (see note (a)) | 224 | | | | | — | | | | | | | |
LCM inventory valuation adjustment (see note (c)) | (19) | | | | | — | | | | | | | |
Change in estimated useful life (see note (d)) | 30 | | | | | — | | | | | | | |
Other operating expenses | 35 | | | | | 21 | | | | | | | |
Adjusted operating income (loss) | $ | (1,309) | | | | | $ | 3,699 | | | | | | | |
(g)(i)We use throughput volumes, sales volumes, and production volumes for the refiningRefining segment, renewable dieselRenewable Diesel segment, and ethanolEthanol segment, respectively, due to their general use by others who operate facilities similar to those included in our segments.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
Overview
During the first half of 2020, our liquidity was negatively impacted by the significant economic effects resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic as described in “OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK—Overview—Business Operations Update.” However, we took a number of actions to address the economic environment and its impact on our liquidity, most notably two public debt offerings totaling $4.0 billion before deducting the underwriting discounts and debt issuance costs, which are described in Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. We took other actions to address our liquidity and those actions are described in “OVERVIEW AND OUTLOOK—Overview—Business Operations Update” on pages 33 through 35 and in the discussion of matters impacting our liquidity and capital resources below. As a result of the actions taken during 2020, our liquidity position has improved as of December 31, 2020 compared to the end of the first quarter of 2020, which was when the pandemic began to have a negative impact on our business.
Our Liquidity
Our liquidity consisted of the following as of December 31, 20202022 (in millions):
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Available borrowing capacity from our committed facilities:facilities (a): | | | | | | | | |
Valero Revolver | | | | | | | | $ | 3,9663,994 | |
364-day Revolving Credit FacilityCanadian Revolver (b) | | | | | | | | 875 | |
Canadian Revolver(a)
| | | | | | | | 114107 | |
Accounts receivable sales facility | | | | | | | | 8851,300 | |
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Letter of credit facilityTotal available capacity | | | | | | | | 505,401 | |
Total available borrowing capacityCash and cash equivalents (c) | | | | | | | | 5,890 | |
Cash and cash equivalents(b)
| | | | | | | | 3,1524,713 | |
Total liquidity | | | | | | | | $ | 9,04210,114 | |
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(a)Excludes the committed facilities of the consolidated VIEs.
(b)The amount for our Canadian Revolver is shown in U.S. dollars. As set forth in the summary of our credit facilities in Note 108 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, the availability under our Canadian Revolver as of December 31, 20202022 in Canadian dollars was C$145 million.
(b)(c)Excludes $161$149 million of cash and cash equivalents related to our variable interest entities (VIEs)the consolidated VIEs that is available for use only by ourthe VIEs.
Information about our outstanding borrowings, letters of credit issued, and availability under our credit facilities is reflected in Note 108 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
Our debt and financing agreements do not have rating agency triggers that would automatically require us to post additional collateral. However, in the event of certain downgrades of our senior unsecured debt by the ratings agencies, the cost of borrowings under some of our bank credit facilities and other arrangements may increase. As of December 31, 2022, all of our ratings on our senior unsecured debt, including debt guaranteed by us, were at or above investment grade level as follows:
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Rating Agency | | Rating |
Moody’s Investors Service | | Baa2 (stable outlook) |
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services | | BBB (stable outlook) |
Fitch Ratings | | BBB (stable outlook) |
We cannot provide assurance that these ratings will remain in effect for any given period of time or that one or more of these ratings will not be lowered or withdrawn entirely by a rating agency. We note that these credit ratings are not recommendations to buy, sell, or hold our securities. Each rating should be evaluated independently of any other rating. Any future reduction below investment grade or withdrawal of one or more of our credit ratings could have a material adverse impact on our ability to obtain short- and long-term financing and the cost of such financings.
We believe that cash provided bywe have sufficient funds from operations along with cashand from our public debt offerings in April and September of 2020 and available borrowingscapacity under our credit facilities is sufficient to fund our ongoing operating requirements and other commitments.commitments over the next 12 months and thereafter for the foreseeable future. We expect that, to the extent necessary, we can raise additional cash through equity or debt financings in the public and private capital markets or the arrangement of additional credit facilities. However, there can be no assurances regarding the availability of any future
financings or additional credit facilities or whether such financings or additional credit facilities can be made available on terms that are acceptable to us.
Cash Flows
Components of our cash flows are set forth below (in millions):
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | | 2022 | | 2021 | |
Cash flows provided by (used in): | Cash flows provided by (used in): | | | | | Cash flows provided by (used in): | | | | |
Operating activities | Operating activities | $ | 948 | | | $ | 5,531 | | | Operating activities | $ | 12,574 | | | $ | 5,859 | | |
Investing activities | Investing activities | (2,425) | | | (3,001) | | | Investing activities | (2,805) | | | (2,159) | | |
Financing activities: | Financing activities: | | | | | Financing activities: | | | | |
Borrowings | 4,570 | | | 2,131 | | | |
Debt issuances and borrowings | | Debt issuances and borrowings | 3,153 | | | 1,828 | | |
Repayments of debt and finance lease obligations (including premiums paid on early redemption and retirement of debt) | | Repayments of debt and finance lease obligations (including premiums paid on early redemption and retirement of debt) | (6,019) | | | (3,214) | | |
Return to stockholders: | | Return to stockholders: | | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | | Purchases of common stock for treasury | (4,577) | | | (27) | | |
Common stock dividend payments | | Common stock dividend payments | (1,562) | | | (1,602) | | |
Return to stockholders | | Return to stockholders | (6,139) | | | (1,629) | | |
Other financing activities | Other financing activities | (2,493) | | | (5,128) | | | Other financing activities | 156 | | | 169 | | |
Financing activities | Financing activities | 2,077 | | | (2,997) | | | Financing activities | (8,849) | | | (2,846) | | |
Effect of foreign exchange rate changes on cash | Effect of foreign exchange rate changes on cash | 130 | | | 68 | | | Effect of foreign exchange rate changes on cash | (180) | | | (45) | | |
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents | $ | 730 | | | $ | (399) | | | |
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents | | Net increase in cash and cash equivalents | $ | 740 | | | $ | 809 | | |
Cash Flows for the Year Ended December 31, 20202022
During the year ended December 31, 2020,In 2022, we used $948 millionthe $12.6 billion of cash generated by our operations and $4.6the $3.2 billion in debt issuances and borrowings to make $2.4$2.8 billion of investments in our business, fund $2.5repay $6.0 billion of other financing activities,debt and finance lease obligations (including premiums paid on the early retirement of debt), return $6.1 billion to our stockholders through purchases of our common stock for treasury and dividend payments, and increase our available cash on hand by $730$740 million. The debt issuance, borrowings, and repayments are described in Note 108 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
As previously noted, our operations generated $948 million$12.6 billion of cash in 2020, which was negatively impacted2022, driven primarily by net income of $11.9 billion and noncash charges to income of $2.3 billion, partially offset by an unfavorable change in working capital of $345 million. The change$1.6 billion. Noncash charges primarily included $2.5 billion of depreciation and amortization expense, $50 million of deferred income tax expense, and a $61 million asset impairment loss associated with our Lakota ethanol plant, as described in working capital was affected primarily by a $740 million useNote 5 of cash11 resulting from the rapid decline in market prices of refined petroleum products and crude oil as a result of the negative economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that impacted our receivables and accounts payable. This use of cash, along with other uses of cash, were partially offset by a $1.0 billion source of cash driven by a reduction in inventory levels on hand.Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. Details regarding the components of the change in working capital, along with the reasons for the changes in those components, are described in Note 1917 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. In addition, see “RESULTS OF OPERATIONS” for an analysis of the significant components of our net loss.income.
Our investing activities of $2.4$2.8 billion primarily consisted of $2.5$2.7 billionin capital investments, as defined below under “Capital Investments,” of which $548$879 million related to self-funded capital investments made by DGD and $251$40 million was related to capital expenditures of VIEs other than DGD.
Other financing activities of $2.5 billion consisted primarily of $1.6 billion in dividend payments, $490 million of payments of debt and finance lease obligations, $208 million to pay distributions to noncontrolling interests, and $156 million for the purchase of common stock for treasury.
Cash Flows for the Year Ended December 31, 20192021
During the year ended December 31, 2019,In 2021, we used $5.5the $5.9 billion of cash generated by our operations $2.1and the $1.8 billion in borrowings,debt issuances and $399 million of cash on handborrowings to make $3.0$2.2 billion of investments in our business, and fund $5.1repay $3.2 billion of other financing activities.debt and finance lease obligations (including premiums paid on the early redemption and retirement of debt), return $1.6 billion to our stockholders through purchases of our common stock for treasury and dividend payments, and increase our available cash on hand by $809 million. The debt issuances, borrowings, and repayments are described in Note 108 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
As previously noted, our operations generated $5.5$5.9 billion of cash in 2019,2021, driven primarily by net income of $2.8 billion, noncash charges to income of $2.5$2.3 billion, and a positive change in working capital of $294 million.$2.2 billion, and net income of $1.3 billion. Noncash charges primarily included $2.4 billion of depreciation and amortization expense and a $193 million loss on the early redemption and retirement of debt, partially offset by a $126 million deferred income tax benefit and a $62 million gain on the sale of a partial interest in MVP, as described in Note 11 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. Details regarding the components of the change in working capital, along with the reasons for the changes in those components, are described in Note 1917 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. In addition, see “RESULTS OF OPERATIONS” for an analysis of the significant components of our net income.
Our investing activities of $3.0$2.2 billion consisted primarily of $2.9$2.5 billion in capital investments, as defined below, of which $160 million is$1.0 billion related to self-funded capital investments made by DGD and $225$110 million was related to capital expenditures of VIEs other than DGD.
Other financing These activities were partially offset by $270 million of $5.1 billion consisted primarilyproceeds received from the sale of $1.8 billion of payments of debt and finance lease obligations, $1.5 billiona partial interest in dividend payments, $950 million to acquire all of the outstanding publicly held common units of VLP, and $777 million for the purchase of common stock for treasury.
11 Represents the net cash flow change in “receivables, net” of $3.3 billion and accounts payable of $4.1 billionduring the year ended December 31, 2020,MVP, as described in Note 1912 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
51Our Capital Resources
Our material cash requirements as of December 31, 2022 primarily consist of working capital requirements, capital investments, contractual obligations, and other matters, as described below. Our operations have historically generated positive cash flows to fulfill our working capital requirements and other uses of cash as discussed below.
Capital Investments
Our operationsCapital investments are highly capital intensive. Eachcomprised of our refineries and plants comprises a large base of property assets, consisting of a series of interconnected, highly integrated and interdependent crude oil and other feedstock processing facilities and supporting logistical infrastructure (Units), and these Units are improved continuously. The cost of improvements, which consist of the addition of new Units and betterments of existing Units, can be significant. We plan for these improvements by developing a multi-year capital program that is updated and revised based on changing internal and external factors.
We have historically acquired our refineries at amounts significantly below their replacement costs, whereas our improvements are made at full replacement value. As such, the costs for improving our refinery assets increase over time and are significant in relation to the amounts we paid to acquire our refineries. We make improvements to our refineries in order to maintain and enhance their operating reliability, to meet environmental obligations with respect to reducing emissions and removing prohibited elements from the products we produce, or to enhance their profitability. Reliability and environmental improvements generally do not increase the throughput capacities of our refineries. Improvements that enhance refinery profitability may increase throughput capacity, but many of these improvements allow our refineries to process different types of crude oil and to refine crude oil into products with higher market values. Therefore, many of our improvements do not increase throughput capacity significantly.
Our capital investments include capital expenditures, deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures, and investments in
unconsolidatednonconsolidated joint
ventures, as reflected in our consolidated statements of cash flows as shown on page 75. Capital investments exclude strategic investments or acquisitions, if any.
We also identify our capital investments by the nature of the project with which the expenditure is associated as follows:
•Sustaining capital investments are generally associated with projects that are expected to extend the lives of our property assets, sustain their operating capabilities and safety (including deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures), or comply with regulatory requirements. Regulatory compliance capital investments are generally associated with projects that are incurred to comply with government regulatory requirements, such as requirements to reduce emissions and prohibited elements from our products.
•Growth capital investments, including low-carbon growth capital investments that support the development and growth of our low-carbon renewable diesel and ethanol businesses, are generally associated with projects for the construction of new property assets that are expected to
enhance our profitability and cash-generating capabilities, including investments in nonconsolidated joint ventures. Capital
We have developed an extensive multi-year capital investment program, which we update and revise based on changing internal and external factors. The following table reflects our expected capital investments for the year ending December 31, 2023 by nature of the project and reportable segment, along with historical amounts for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 (in millions). The following table also reflects capital investments attributable to Valero, which is a non-GAAP measure that we define and reconcile to capital investments below under “Capital Investments Attributable to Valero.”
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| Year Ending December 31, 2023 (a) | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2022 | | 2021 |
Capital investments by nature of the project (b): | | | | | |
Sustaining capital investments | $ | 1,595 | | | $ | 1,368 | | | $ | 1,129 | |
Growth capital investments: | | | | | |
Low-carbon growth capital investments | 225 | | | 836 | | | 1,042 | |
Other growth capital investments | 200 | | | 534 | | | 296 | |
Total growth capital investments | 425 | | | 1,370 | | | 1,338 | |
Total capital investments | $ | 2,020 | | | $ | 2,738 | | | $ | 2,467 | |
Capital investments by segment: | | | | | |
Refining | $ | 1,570 | | | $ | 1,764 | | | $ | 1,378 | |
Renewable Diesel | 280 | | | 879 | | | 1,048 | |
Ethanol | 70 | | | 22 | | | 15 | |
Corporate | 100 | | | 73 | | | 26 | |
Total capital investments | 2,020 | | | 2,738 | | | 2,467 | |
Adjustments: | | | | | |
Renewable Diesel capital investments attributable to the other joint venture member in DGD | (140) | | | (439) | | | (524) | |
Capital expenditures of other VIEs | — | | | (40) | | | (110) | |
Capital investments attributable to Valero | $ | 1,880 | | | $ | 2,259 | | | $ | 1,833 | |
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(a)All expected amounts for the year ending December 31, 2023 exclude capital expenditures that the consolidated VIEs (other than DGD) may incur because we do not operate those VIEs.
(b)Capital investments attributable to Valero by nature of the project are as follows (in millions):
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| Year Ending December 31, 2023 | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2022 | | 2021 |
Sustaining capital investments | $ | 1,550 | | | $ | 1,340 | | | $ | 1,105 | |
Growth capital investments: | | | | | |
Low-carbon growth capital investments | 130 | | | 422 | | | 538 | |
Other growth capital investments | 200 | | | 497 | | | 190 | |
Total growth capital investments | 330 | | | 919 | | | 728 | |
Capital investments attributable to Valero | $ | 1,880 | | | $ | 2,259 | | | $ | 1,833 | |
We have publicly announced GHG emissions reduction/displacement targets for 2025 and 2035. We believe that our expected allocation of growth capital into low-carbon projects is consistent with such targets. Certain of these low-carbon projects have been completed or are already in execution and the associated capital investments are included in our expected capital investments for 2023. Our capital investments in future years to achieve these targets are expected to include investments associated with certain low-carbon projects currently at various stages of progress, evaluation, or approval. See “ITEMS 1. and 2. BUSINESS AND PROPERTIES—OUR COMPREHENSIVE LIQUID FUELS STRATEGY—Our Low-Carbon Projects” for a description of our low-carbon projects.
Capital Investments Attributable to Valero
Capital investments attributable to Valero is a non-GAAP financial measure that reflects our net share of capital investments and is defined as all capital expenditures, deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures, and investments in unconsolidatednonconsolidated joint ventures, presented in our consolidated statements of cash flows, excluding the portion of DGD’s capital investments attributable to ourthe other joint venture partnermember and all of the capital expenditures of other consolidated VIEs.
We are a 50/50 percent joint venture partnermember in DGD and consolidate DGD’sits financial statements; asstatements. As a result, all of DGD’s net cash provided by operating activities (or operating cash flow) is included in our consolidated net cash provided by operating activities. DGD’s partnersmembers use DGD’s operating cash flow (excluding changes in its current assets and current liabilities) to fund its capital investments rather than distribute all of that cash to themselves. Because DGD’s operating cash flow is effectively attributable to each partner,member, only 50 percent of DGD’s capital investments should be attributed to our net share of capital investments. We also exclude all of the capital expenditures of our other consolidated VIEs that we consolidate because we do not operate those VIEs. See Note 11 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for more information about the VIEs that we consolidate. We believe capital investments attributable to Valero is an important measure because it more accurately reflects our capital investments.
Capital investments attributable to Valero should not be considered as an alternative to capital investments, itswhich is the most comparable U.S. GAAP measure, nor should it be considered in isolation or as a substitute for an analysis of our cash flows as reported under U.S. GAAP. In addition, this non-GAAP measure may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies because we may define it differently, which may diminish its utility.
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| Year Ended December 31, | | |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | | | |
Reconciliation of capital investments to capital investments attributable to Valero | | | | | | | |
Capital expenditures (excluding VIEs) | $ | 1,014 | | | $ | 1,627 | | | | | |
Capital expenditures of VIEs: | | | | | | | |
DGD | 523 | | | 142 | | | | | |
Other VIEs | 251 | | | 225 | | | | | |
Deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures (excluding VIEs) | 623 | | | 762 | | | | | |
Deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures of DGD | 25 | | | 18 | | | | | |
Investments in unconsolidated joint ventures | 54 | | | 164 | | | | | |
Capital investments | 2,490 | | | 2,938 | | | | | |
Adjustments: | | | | | | | |
DGD’s capital investments attributable to our joint venture partner | (274) | | | (80) | | | | | |
Capital expenditures of other VIEs | (251) | | | (225) | | | | | |
Capital investments attributable to Valero | $ | 1,965 | | | $ | 2,633 | | | | | |
We expect to incur capital investments and capital investments attributable to Valero in 2021 as follows by reportable segment (in millions):
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Refining | $ | 1,600 | |
Renewable diesel | 720 | |
Ethanol | 40 | |
Corporate | 25 | |
Capital investments | 2,385 | |
Adjustments: | |
DGD’s capital investments attributable to
our joint venture partner
| (360) | |
Capital expenditures of other VIEs | (25) | |
Capital investments attributable to Valero | $ | 2,000 | |
Approximately 60 percent of the capital investments attributable to Valero are for sustaining the business and 40 percent are for growth strategies, almost half of which is allocated to expanding the renewable diesel business. However, we continuously evaluate our capital budget and make changes as conditions warrant. This capital investment estimate excludes strategic acquisitions, if any.
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| Year Ended December 31, | |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | | |
Reconciliation of capital investments to capital investments attributable to Valero | | | | | | |
Capital expenditures (excluding VIEs) | $ | 788 | | | $ | 513 | | | | |
Capital expenditures of VIEs: | | | | | | |
DGD | 853 | | | 1,042 | | | | |
Other VIEs | 40 | | | 110 | | | | |
Deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures (excluding VIEs) | 1,030 | | | 787 | | | | |
Deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures of DGD | 26 | | | 6 | | | | |
Investments in nonconsolidated joint ventures | 1 | | | 9 | | | | |
Capital investments | 2,738 | | | 2,467 | | | | |
Adjustments: | | | | | | |
DGD’s capital investments attributable to our joint venture member | (439) | | | (524) | | | | |
Capital expenditures of other VIEs | (40) | | | (110) | | | | |
Capital investments attributable to Valero | $ | 2,259 | | | $ | 1,833 | | | | |
Contractual Obligations
Below is a summary of our contractual obligations (in millions) as of December 31, 2022 that are expected to be paid within the next year and thereafter. These obligations are reflected in our balance sheets, except (i) the interest payments related to debt obligations, operating lease liabilities, and finance lease obligations and (ii) purchase obligations.
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| Payments Due by Period | | |
| Short-Term | | Long-Term | | | | | | | | | | Total |
Debt obligations (a) | $ | 861 | | | $ | 8,464 | | | | | | | | | | | $ | 9,325 | |
Interest payments related to debt obligations (b) | 466 | | | 5,419 | | | | | | | | | | | 5,885 | |
Operating lease liabilities (c) | 345 | | | 1,043 | | | | | | | | | | | 1,388 | |
Finance lease obligations (c) | 350 | | | 3,112 | | | | | | | | | | | 3,462 | |
Other long-term liabilities (d) | — | | | 1,534 | | | | | | | | | | | 1,534 | |
Purchase obligations (e) | 20,753 | | | 12,990 | | | | | | | | | | | 33,743 | |
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(a)Debt obligations are described in Note 8 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated by reference into this item and includes a maturity analysis of our debt. Debt obligations exclude amounts related to net unamortized debt issuance costs and other.
(b)Interest payments related to debt obligations are the expected payments based on information available as of December 31, 2022.
(c)Operating lease liabilities and finance lease obligations are described in Note 4 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated by reference into this item and includes maturity analyses of remaining minimum lease payments. Operating lease liabilities and finance lease obligations reflected in this table include related interest expense.
(d)Other long-term liabilities are described in Note 7 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated by reference into this item. Other long-term liabilities exclude amounts related to the long-term portion of operating lease liabilities that are separately presented above.
(e)Purchase obligations are described in Note 9 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated by reference into this item. Purchase obligations are based on (i) fixed or minimum quantities to be purchased and (ii) fixed or estimated prices to be paid based on current market conditions.
The amount outstanding associated with the IEnova Revolver, as defined and described in Note 8 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, is reflected in current portion of debt and finance lease obligations in our balance sheet as of December 31, 2022, and also included in the table above in debt obligations – short-term. The IEnova Revolver is subject to repayment on demand; however, we do not expect the lender to demand repayment during the next 12 months. Thus, the final cash flows for this instrument cannot be predicted with certainty at this time.
We raised $4.0 billion of incremental debt in 2020 due to the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business. The debt reduction and refinancing transactions completed in the second half of 2021 and during the year ended December 31, 2022, have collectively reduced our debt by over $4.0 billion. We will continue to evaluate further deleveraging opportunities.
We have not entered into any transactions, agreements, or other contractual arrangements that would result in off-balance sheet liabilities.
Other Matters Impacting Liquidity and Capital Resources
Stock Purchase Program
On January 23, 2018, our board of directors authorizedDuring the 2018 Programyear ended December 31, 2022, we purchased for the purchasetreasury 37,999,481 of our outstanding common stock.shares for $4.6 billion. As of December 31, 2020,2022, we had $1.4$2.3 billionremaining available for purchase under the 2018 Program, which has no expiration date.October 2022 Program. We have not purchased any shares of our common stock under the 2018 Program since mid-March 2020, and we will continue to evaluate the timing of repurchasespurchases when appropriate. We have no obligation to make purchases under this program. On February 23, 2023, our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, which is in addition to the amount remaining under the October 2022 Program.
Pension Plan Funding
We plan to contribute $128$108 million to our pension plans and $22$21 million to our other postretirement benefit plans during 2021.2023. See Note 1412 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of our employee benefit plans.
Tax Matters
The IRA includes various tax provisions, such as a 15 percent corporate alternative minimum tax, a one percent excise tax on purchases of our common stock by us, and expanded tax credits for low-carbon projects that may affect us. These provisions are effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2022.
Cash Held by Our Foreign Subsidiaries
As of December 31, 2022, $4.1 billion of our cash and cash equivalents was held by our foreign subsidiaries. Cash held by our foreign subsidiaries can be repatriated to us through dividends without any U.S. federal income tax consequences, but certain other taxes may apply, including, but not limited to, withholding taxes imposed by certain foreign jurisdictions, U.S. state income taxes, and U.S. federal income tax on foreign exchange gains. Therefore, there is a cost to repatriate cash held by certain of our foreign subsidiaries to us. As of December 31, 2022, we recognized a deferred income tax liability of $51 million for foreign tax withholding on the anticipated repatriation of approximately $1 billion of cash held by one of our foreign subsidiaries.
Environmental Matters
Our operations are subject to extensive environmental regulations by governmentalgovernment authorities relating to the discharge of materials into the environment, waste management, pollution prevention measures, GHG emissions, and characteristics and composition of gasolines and distillates.many of our products. Because environmental laws and regulations are becoming more complex and stringent and new environmental laws and regulations are continuously being enacted or proposed, the level of future expenditures required for environmental matters could increase in the future. In addition, any major upgrades in any of our refineries or plants could require material additional expenditures to comply with environmental laws and regulations.increase. See Note 97 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for disclosure of our environmental liabilities.
Tax Matters
Under deferrals provided by recently passed legislation, such as the CARES Act in the U.S., and by various taxing authorities under other existing legislation, we deferred approximately $440 million of income and indirect (e.g., VAT and motor fuel taxes) tax payments due in the first and second quarters of 2020. As of December 31, 2020, we had approximately $250 million of deferred tax payments. Of the $250 million, approximately 70 percent will be paid in 2021 and 30 percent in 2022.
We take tax positions in our tax returns from time to time that may not be ultimately allowed by the relevant taxing authority. When we take such positions, we evaluate the likelihood of sustaining those positions and determine the amount of tax benefit arising from such positions, if any, that should be recognized in our financial statements. Tax benefits not recognized by us are recorded as a liability for unrecognized tax benefits, which represents our potential future obligation to various taxing authorities if the tax positions are not sustained.
As of December 31, 2020, our liability for unrecognized tax benefits, excluding related interest and penalties, was $821 million. Of this amount, $525 million is associated with refund claims associated with taxes paid on incentive payments received from the U.S. federal government for blending biofuels into refined petroleum products. We recorded a tax refund receivable of $525 million in connection with our refund claims, but we also recorded a liability for unrecognized tax benefits of $525 million due to the complexity of this matter and uncertainties with respect to sustaining these refund claims. Therefore, our financial position, results of operations, and liquidity will not be negatively impacted if we are unsuccessful in sustaining these refund claims. The remaining liability for unrecognized tax benefits, excluding related interest and penalties, of $296 million represents our potential future obligations to various taxing authorities if the tax positions associated with that liability are not sustained.
Details about our liability for unrecognized tax benefits, along with other information about our unrecognized tax benefits, are included in Note 16 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
Cash Held by Our International Subsidiaries
As of December 31, 2020, $2.5 billion of our cash and cash equivalents was held by our international subsidiaries. Cash held by our international subsidiaries can be repatriated to us without any U.S. federal income tax consequences, but certain other taxes may apply, including, but not limited to, withholding taxes imposed by certain international jurisdictions and U.S. state income taxes. Therefore, there is a cost to repatriate cash held by certain of our international subsidiaries to us, but we believe that such amount is not material to our financial position or liquidity.
Concentration of Customers
Our operations have a concentration of customers in the refining industry and customers who are refined petroleum product wholesalers and retailers. These concentrations of customers may impact our overall exposure to credit risk, either positively or negatively, in that these customers may be similarly affected by changes in economic or other conditions, including the uncertainties concerning the COVID-19 pandemic and other worldwide events causing volatility in the global crude oil markets. However, we believe that our portfolio of accounts receivable is sufficiently diversified to the extent necessary to minimize potential credit risk. Historically, we have not had any significant problems collecting our accounts receivable. See also Item 1A, “RISK FACTORS”—Risks Related to Our Business, Industry,“ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS—Legal, Government, and Operations—Regulatory Risks—Developments with respect to low-carbon fuel policiesLegal, political, and regulatory developments regarding climate, GHG emissions, or the market for alternative fuels may affect demand for our renewable fuels andenvironment could adversely affect our business, financial performance.condition, results of operations, and liquidity.”
OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS
We have not entered into any transactions, agreements, or other contractual arrangements that would result in off-balance sheet liabilities.
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
Our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2020 are summarized below (in millions).
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| Payments Due by Year | | |
| 2021 | | 2022 | | 2023 | | 2024 | | 2025 | | Thereafter | | Total |
Debt and finance lease obligations (a) | $ | 790 | | | $ | 188 | | | $ | 1,632 | | | $ | 1,103 | | | $ | 1,828 | | | $ | 9,972 | | | $ | 15,513 | |
Debt obligations – interest payments | 550 | | | 544 | | | 524 | | | 501 | | | 469 | | | 3,544 | | | 6,132 | |
Operating lease liabilities (b) | 324 | | | 231 | | | 194 | | | 155 | | | 107 | | | 435 | | | 1,446 | |
Purchase obligations | 14,641 | | | 1,871 | | | 1,268 | | | 1,246 | | | 1,124 | | | 2,445 | | | 22,595 | |
Other long-term liabilities (c) | — | | | 129 | | | 225 | | | 235 | | | 259 | | | 1,887 | | | 2,735 | |
Total | $ | 16,305 | | | $ | 2,963 | | | $ | 3,843 | | | $ | 3,240 | | | $ | 3,787 | | | $ | 18,283 | | | $ | 48,421 | |
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(a)Debt obligations exclude amounts related to unamortized discounts and debt issuance costs. Finance lease obligations include related interest expense. Debt obligations due in 2021 include $598 million associated with borrowings under the IEnova Revolver (as defined and described in Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements) for the construction of terminals in Mexico by Central Mexico Terminals (as defined and described
in Note 13 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements). The IEnova Revolver is only available to the operations of Central Mexico Terminals, and its creditors do not have recourse against us.
(b)Operating lease liabilities include related interest expense.
(c)Other long-term liabilities exclude amounts related to the long-term portion of operating lease liabilities that are separately presented above.
Debt and Finance Lease Obligations
Our debt and finance lease obligations are described in Notes 10 and 6, respectively, of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
Our debt and financing agreements do not have rating agency triggers that would automatically require us to post additional collateral. However, in the event of certain downgrades of our senior unsecured debt by the ratings agencies, the cost of borrowings under some of our bank credit facilities and other arrangements may increase. As of December 31, 2020, all of our ratings on our senior unsecured debt, including debt guaranteed by us, are at or above investment grade level as follows:
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Rating Agency | | Rating |
Moody’s Investors Service | | Baa2 (negative outlook) |
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services | | BBB (negative outlook) |
Fitch Ratings | | BBB (negative outlook) |
We cannot provide assurance that these ratings will remain in effect for any given period of time or that one or more of these ratings will not be lowered or withdrawn entirely by a rating agency. We note that these credit ratings are not recommendations to buy, sell, or hold our securities. Each rating should be evaluated independently of any other rating. Any future reduction below investment grade or withdrawal of one or more of our credit ratings could have a material adverse impact on our ability to obtain short- and long-term financing and the cost of such financings.
Debt Obligations – Interest Payments
Interest payments for our debt obligations as described in Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements are the expected payments based on information available as of December 31, 2020.
Operating Lease Liabilities
Our operating lease liabilities arise from leasing arrangements for the right to use various classes of underlying assets as described in Note 6 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. Operating lease liabilities are recognized for leasing arrangements with terms greater than one year and are not reduced by minimum lease payments to be received by us under subleases.
Purchase Obligations
A purchase obligation is an enforceable and legally binding agreement to purchase goods or services that specifies significant terms, including (i) fixed or minimum quantities to be purchased, (ii) fixed, minimum, or variable price provisions, and (iii) the approximate timing of the transaction. We have various purchase obligations under certain crude oil and other feedstock supply arrangements, industrial gas supply arrangements (such as hydrogen supply arrangements), natural gas supply arrangements, and various throughput, transportation and terminaling agreements. We enter into these contracts to ensure an adequate supply of feedstock and utilities and adequate storage capacity to operate our refineries and plants. Substantially all of our purchase obligations are based on market prices or adjustments based on market indices. Certain of these purchase obligations include fixed or minimum volume requirements, while others are based on our usage requirements. The purchase obligation amounts shown in the
preceding table include both short- and long-term obligations and are based on (i) fixed or minimum quantities to be purchased and (ii) fixed or estimated prices to be paid based on current market conditions.
Other Long-Term Liabilities
Our other long-term liabilities are described in Note 9 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. For purposes of reflecting amounts for other long-term liabilities in the preceding table, we made our best estimate of expected payments for each type of liability based on information available as of December 31, 2020.
NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
As discussed in Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, certain new financial accounting pronouncements became effective in 2020 and January 2021. The effect on our financial statements upon adoption of these pronouncements is discussed in the above-referenced note.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES
The preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The following summary provides further information about our critical accounting policies that involve critical accounting estimates, and should be read in conjunction with Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, which summarizes our significant accounting policies. The following accounting policies involve estimates that are considered critical due to the level of subjectivity and judgment involved, as well as the impact on our financial position and results of operations. We believe that all of our estimates are reasonable. Unless otherwise noted, estimates of the sensitivity to earnings that would result from changes in the assumptions used in determining our estimates is not practicable due to the number of assumptions and contingencies involved, and the wide range of possible outcomes.
Unrecognized Tax Benefits
We take tax positions in our tax returns from time to time that ultimately may not be ultimately allowed by the relevant taxing authority.authorities. When we take such positions, we evaluate the likelihood of sustaining those positions and determine the amount of tax benefit arising from such positions, if any, that should be recognized in our financial statements. Tax benefits not recognized by us are recorded as a liability for unrecognized tax benefits, which represents our potential future obligation to various taxing authorities if the tax positions are not sustained.
The evaluation of tax positions and the determination of the benefit arising from such positions that are recognized in our financial statements requires us to make significant judgments and estimates based on an analysis of complex tax laws and regulations and related interpretations. These judgments and estimates are subject to change due to many factors, including the progress of ongoing tax audits, case law, and changes in legislation.
Details of our liability for unrecognized tax benefits, along with other information about our unrecognized tax benefits, are included in Note 1614 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets and Goodwill
Long-lived assets (primarily property, plant, and equipment) are tested for recoverability whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the asset may not be recoverable. A
long-lived asset is not recoverable if its carrying amount exceeds the sum of the undiscounted cash flows expected to result from its use and eventual disposition. If a long-lived asset is not recoverable, an impairment loss is recognized for the amount by which the carrying amount of the long-lived asset exceeds its fair value, with fair value determined based on discounted estimated net cash flows or other appropriate methods.
In order to test for recoverability, we must make estimates of projected cash flows related to the asset being evaluated; suchevaluated. Such estimates include, but are not limited to, assumptions about future sales volumes, commodity prices, operating costs, margins, the use or disposition of the asset, the asset’s estimated remaining useful life, and future expenditures necessary to maintain the asset’s existing service potential.potential in light of existing and expected regulations. Due to the significant subjectivity of the assumptions used to test for recoverability, changes in market conditions could result in significant impairment charges in the future, thus affecting our earnings.
Goodwill is tested for impairment annually or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate the asset might be impaired. We first evaluate qualitative factors to determine if it is more likely than not (i.e., a likelihood of more than 50%) that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, including goodwill, by taking into consideration relevant events and circumstances. If, after assessing the totality of events or circumstances, we determine that it is not more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, no further testing is necessary. However, if we determine that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then we perform the quantitative goodwill impairment test. An impairment loss is recognized if the carrying amount of the reporting unit, including goodwill, exceeds its fair value.
During 2020, we performed qualitative assessments of the reporting unit to which our goodwill is related to determine if the quantitative impairment test was necessary. We considered company-specific information, such as current and future financial performance, as well as external factors, that could affect the fair value of the reporting unit. We evaluated (i) the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the demand for our products and utilization of our U.S. refineries, (ii) the expected contribution from the reporting unit, which historically has had strong performance, and (iii) the estimated margin between the carrying amount and the implied enterprise value of our reporting unit. Due to the significant subjectivity of the assumptions used to test for impairment, changes in market conditions could result in significant impairment charges in the future, thus affecting our earnings.
As of December 31, 2020,2022, we determined therethat our Lakota ethanol plant was noimpaired, which resulted in an asset impairment loss of our long-lived assets or goodwill$61 million, as discusseddescribed in Note 25 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
New environmental and tax laws and regulations, as well as changes to existing laws and regulations, are continuously being enacted or proposed. The implementation of future legislative and regulatory initiatives (such as those discussed in ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS) that may adversely affect our operations could indicate that the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable and result in an impairment loss that could be material. If the circumstances that trigger an impairment also result in a reduction in the estimated useful life of the asset, then we may also be required to recognize an asset retirement obligation for that asset.
ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
COMMODITY PRICE RISK
We are exposed to market risks related to the volatility in the price of feedstocks (primarily crude oil, waste and renewable feedstocks, and corn), the products we produce, (primarily refined petroleum products), and natural gas used in our operations. To reduce the impact of price volatility on our results of operations and cash flows, we use commodity derivative instruments, including futures and options to manage the volatility of:
•inventories and firm commitments to purchase inventories generally for amounts by which our current year inventory levels (determined on a LIFO basis) differ from our previous year-end LIFO inventory levels; and
•forecasted purchases and/or product sales at existing market prices that we deem favorable.
Our positions in commodity derivative instruments are monitored and managed on a daily basis by our risk control group to ensure compliance with our stated risk management policy that has been approved by our board of directors.Board.
As of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, the amount of gain or loss that would have resulted from a 10 percent increase or decrease in the underlying price for all of our commodity derivative instruments entered into for purposes other than trading with which we have market risk was not material. See Note 2119 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for notional volumes associated with these derivative contracts as of December 31, 2020.2022.
COMPLIANCE PROGRAM PRICE RISK
We are exposed to market risk related to the volatility in the price of credits needed to comply with various governmentalthe Renewable and regulatory environmental compliance programs.Low-Carbon Fuel Programs. To manage this risk, we enter into contracts to purchase these credits when prices are deemed favorable.credits. As of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, the amount of gain or loss in the fair value of derivative instruments that would have resulted from a 10 percent increase or decrease in the underlying price of the contracts was not material. See Note 2119 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion about these complianceblending programs.
INTEREST RATE RISK
The following table providestables provide information about our debt instruments (dollars in millions), the fair values of which are sensitive to changes in interest rates. A 10 percent increase or decrease in our floating interest rates would not have a material effect to our results of operations. Principal cash flows and related weighted-average interest rates by expected maturity dates are presented. See Note 108 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information related to our debt.
| | | December 31, 2020 | | December 31, 2022 (a) |
| | Expected Maturity Dates | | | Expected Maturity Dates | |
| | 2021 (a) | | 2022 | | 2023 (b) | | 2024 | | 2025 | | There- after | | Total (c) | | Fair Value | | 2023 | | 2024 | | 2025 | | 2026 | | 2027 | | There- after | | Total | | Fair Value |
Fixed rate | Fixed rate | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 850 | | $ | 925 | | $ | 1,650 | | $ | 8,474 | | $ | 11,899 | | $ | 13,899 | | Fixed rate | $ | — | | | $ | 167 | | $ | 441 | | $ | 672 | | $ | 578 | | $ | 6,606 | | $ | 8,464 | | $ | 8,041 | |
Average interest rate | Average interest rate | — | % | | — | % | | 2.7 | % | | 1.2 | % | | 3.1 | % | | 5.1 | % | | 4.4 | % | | Average interest rate | — | % | | 1.2 | % | | 3.2 | % | | 4.2 | % | | 2.2 | % | | 5.3 | % | | 4.8 | % | |
Floating rate (d) | Floating rate (d) | $ | 603 | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 595 | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 1,204 | | $ | 1,204 | | Floating rate (d) | $ | 861 | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 861 | | $ | 861 | |
Average interest rate | Average interest rate | 3.9 | % | | 3.0 | % | | 1.4 | % | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % | | 2.7 | % | | Average interest rate | 7.1 | % | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % | | 7.1 | % | |
| | | December 31, 2019 | | December 31, 2021 (a) |
| | Expected Maturity Dates | | | Expected Maturity Dates | |
| | 2020 (a) | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2023 | | 2024 | | There- after | | Total (c) | | Fair Value | | 2022 | | 2023 | | 2024 | | 2025 | | 2026 | | There- after | | Total | | Fair Value |
Fixed rate | Fixed rate | $ | — | | | $ | 11 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 8,474 | | $ | 8,485 | | $ | 10,099 | | Fixed rate | $ | 300 | | $ | — | | | $ | 169 | | $ | 1,374 | | $ | 1,726 | | $ | 7,637 | | $ | 11,206 | | $ | 12,838 | |
Average interest rate | Average interest rate | — | % | | 5 | % | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % | | 5.2 | % | | 5.2 | % | | Average interest rate | 4.0 | % | | — | % | | 1.2 | % | | 3.0 | % | | 3.9 | % | | 5.0 | % | | 4.5 | % | |
Floating rate (d) | Floating rate (d) | $ | 453 | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 19 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 484 | | $ | 484 | | Floating rate (d) | $ | 810 | | $ | 20 | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 830 | | $ | 830 | |
Average interest rate | Average interest rate | 5.0 | % | | 4.5 | % | | 4.5 | % | | 4.5 | % | | — | % | | — | % | | 5.0 | % | | Average interest rate | 3.5 | % | | 3.9 | % | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % | | — | % | | 3.5 | % | |
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(a)As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, our floating rate debt due in 2021 and 2020 includes $598 million and $348 million, respectively, associated with borrowings under the IEnova Revolver for the construction of terminals in Mexico by Central Mexico Terminals. The IEnova Revolver is only available to the operations of Central Mexico Terminals, and its creditors do not have recourse against us.
(b)As of December 31, 2020, our floating rate debt also includes $575 million aggregate principal amount of our Floating Rate Notes issued in September 2020, which are due September 15, 2023.
(c)Excludes unamortized discounts and debt issuance costs.
(d)As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, we had an interest rate swap associated with $31 million and $36 million, respectively, of our floating rate debt resulting in an effective interest rate of 3.85 percent as of each of those reporting dates. The fair value of the swap was immaterial for all periods presented.
FOREIGN CURRENCY RISK
We are exposed to exchange rate fluctuations on transactions related to our internationalforeign operations that are denominated in currencies other than the local (functional) currencies of those operations. To manage our exposure to these exchange rate fluctuations, we often use foreign currency contracts. The following table provides information aboutAs of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the fair value of our foreign currency contracts (dollars in millions), the fair values of which are sensitive to changes in foreign currency exchange rates. Contracts that were outstanding as of December 31, 2020 mature on or before April 15, 2021 and those outstanding as of December 31, 2019 matured in 2020. Currency abbreviations presented below are as follows: U.S. dollars (USD), Canadian dollars (CAD), and pounds sterling (GBP).
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| Receive USD/ Pay CAD | | Receive USD/ Pay GBP | | Receive CAD/ Pay USD | | |
December 31, 2020 | | | | | | | |
Contract amount | $ | 228 | | | $ | 97 | | | $ | 1,600 | | | |
Weighted-average contractual exchange rate | 0.78205 | | 1.34454 | | 0.78492 | | |
Fair value liability | $ | (1) | | | $ | (1) | | | $ | (2) | | | |
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December 31, 2019 | | | | | | | |
Contract amount | $ | 406 | | | $ | 333 | | | $ | 2,250 | | | |
Weighted-average contractual exchange rate | 0.75911 | | 1.31201 | | 0.76217 | | |
Fair value asset (liability) | $ | (6) | | | $ | (4) | | | $ | 27 | | | |
was not material.
See Note 2119 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion about our foreign currency risk management activities.
ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
MANAGEMENT’SMANAGEMENT’S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) for Valero Energy Corporation. Our management evaluated the effectiveness of Valero’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020.2022. In its evaluation, management used the criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Management believes that as of December 31, 2020,2022, our internal control over financial reporting was effective based on those criteria.
Our independent registered public accounting firm has issued an attestation report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, which begins on page 6469 of this report.
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders
Valero Energy Corporation:
Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Valero Energy Corporation and subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2020,2022, and the related notes (collectively, the consolidated financial statements). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2020,2022, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, and our report dated February 23, 20212023 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Basis for Opinion
These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of a critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated
financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Assessment of gross unrecognized tax benefits
As discussed in Note 1614 to the consolidated financial statements, as of December 31, 2020,2022, the Company has gross unrecognized tax benefits, excluding related interest and penalties, of $847$284 million. The Company’s tax positions are subject to examination by local taxing authorities and the resolution of such examinations may span multiple years. Due to the complexities inherent in the interpretation of income tax laws in domestic and internationalforeign jurisdictions, it is uncertain whether some of the Company’s income tax positions will be sustained upon examination.
We identified the assessment of the Company’s gross unrecognized tax benefits as a critical audit matter. Complex auditor judgment was required in evaluating the Company’s interpretation of income tax laws and assessing the Company’s estimate of the ultimate resolution of its income tax positions.
The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of certain internal controls over the Company’s income tax process. This included controls to evaluate which of the Company’s income tax positions may not be sustained upon examination and estimate the gross unrecognized tax benefits. We involved domestic and international income tax professionals with specialized skills and knowledge, who assisted in:
•obtaining an understanding and evaluating the Company’s income tax positions as filed or intended to be filed
•evaluating the Company’s interpretation of income tax laws by developing an independent assessment of the Company’s income tax positions and comparing the results to the Company’s assessment
•inspecting settlements and communications with applicable taxing authorities
•assessing the expiration of applicable statutes of limitations.
In addition, we evaluated the Company’s ability to estimate its gross unrecognized tax benefits by comparing historical uncertain income tax positions, including the gross unrecognized tax benefits, to actual results upon conclusion of tax examinations.
/s/ KPMG LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2004.
San Antonio, Texas
February 23, 20212023
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders
Valero Energy Corporation:
Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
We have audited Valero Energy Corporation and subsidiaries’ (the Company) internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2020,2022, and the related notes (collectively, the consolidated financial statements), and our report dated February 23, 20212023 expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements.
Basis for Opinion
The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the
assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
/s/ KPMG LLP
San Antonio, Texas
February 23, 20212023
VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(millions of dollars, except par value)
| | | December 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
ASSETS | ASSETS | | | | ASSETS | | | |
Current assets: | Current assets: | | Current assets: | |
Cash and cash equivalents | Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 3,313 | | | $ | 2,583 | | Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 4,862 | | | $ | 4,122 | |
Receivables, net | Receivables, net | 6,109 | | | 8,988 | | Receivables, net | 11,919 | | | 10,378 | |
Inventories | Inventories | 6,038 | | | 7,013 | | Inventories | 6,752 | | | 6,265 | |
Prepaid expenses and other | Prepaid expenses and other | 384 | | | 385 | | Prepaid expenses and other | 600 | | | 400 | |
Total current assets | Total current assets | 15,844 | | | 18,969 | | Total current assets | 24,133 | | | 21,165 | |
Property, plant, and equipment, at cost | Property, plant, and equipment, at cost | 46,967 | | | 44,294 | | Property, plant, and equipment, at cost | 50,576 | | | 49,072 | |
Accumulated depreciation | Accumulated depreciation | (16,578) | | | (15,030) | | Accumulated depreciation | (19,598) | | | (18,225) | |
Property, plant, and equipment, net | Property, plant, and equipment, net | 30,389 | | | 29,264 | | Property, plant, and equipment, net | 30,978 | | | 30,847 | |
Deferred charges and other assets, net | Deferred charges and other assets, net | 5,541 | | | 5,631 | | Deferred charges and other assets, net | 5,871 | | | 5,876 | |
Total assets | Total assets | $ | 51,774 | | | $ | 53,864 | | Total assets | $ | 60,982 | | | $ | 57,888 | |
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY | LIABILITIES AND EQUITY | | | | LIABILITIES AND EQUITY | | | |
Current liabilities: | Current liabilities: | | Current liabilities: | |
Current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | Current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | 723 | | | $ | 494 | | Current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | 1,109 | | | $ | 1,264 | |
Accounts payable | Accounts payable | 6,082 | | | 10,205 | | Accounts payable | 12,728 | | | 12,495 | |
Accrued expenses | Accrued expenses | 994 | | | 949 | | Accrued expenses | 1,215 | | | 1,253 | |
Taxes other than income taxes payable | Taxes other than income taxes payable | 1,372 | | | 1,304 | | Taxes other than income taxes payable | 1,568 | | | 1,461 | |
Income taxes payable | Income taxes payable | 112 | | | 208 | | Income taxes payable | 841 | | | 378 | |
Total current liabilities | Total current liabilities | 9,283 | | | 13,160 | | Total current liabilities | 17,461 | | | 16,851 | |
Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | 13,954 | | | 9,178 | | Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | 10,526 | | | 12,606 | |
Deferred income tax liabilities | Deferred income tax liabilities | 5,275 | | | 5,103 | | Deferred income tax liabilities | 5,217 | | | 5,210 | |
Other long-term liabilities | Other long-term liabilities | 3,620 | | | 3,887 | | Other long-term liabilities | 2,310 | | | 3,404 | |
Commitments and contingencies | Commitments and contingencies | 0 | | 0 | Commitments and contingencies | | | |
Equity: | Equity: | | Equity: | |
Valero Energy Corporation stockholders’ equity: | Valero Energy Corporation stockholders’ equity: | | Valero Energy Corporation stockholders’ equity: | |
Common stock, $0.01 par value; 1,200,000,000 shares authorized; 673,501,593 and 673,501,593 shares issued | Common stock, $0.01 par value; 1,200,000,000 shares authorized; 673,501,593 and 673,501,593 shares issued | 7 | | | 7 | | Common stock, $0.01 par value; 1,200,000,000 shares authorized; 673,501,593 and 673,501,593 shares issued | 7 | | | 7 | |
Additional paid-in capital | Additional paid-in capital | 6,814 | | | 6,821 | | Additional paid-in capital | 6,863 | | | 6,827 | |
Treasury stock, at cost; 265,096,171 and 264,209,742 common shares | (15,719) | | | (15,648) | | |
Treasury stock, at cost; 301,372,958 and 264,305,955 common shares | | Treasury stock, at cost; 301,372,958 and 264,305,955 common shares | (20,197) | | | (15,677) | |
Retained earnings | Retained earnings | 28,953 | | | 31,974 | | Retained earnings | 38,247 | | | 28,281 | |
Accumulated other comprehensive loss | Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (1,254) | | | (1,351) | | Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (1,359) | | | (1,008) | |
Total Valero Energy Corporation stockholders’ equity | Total Valero Energy Corporation stockholders’ equity | 18,801 | | | 21,803 | | Total Valero Energy Corporation stockholders’ equity | 23,561 | | | 18,430 | |
Noncontrolling interests | Noncontrolling interests | 841 | | | 733 | | Noncontrolling interests | 1,907 | | | 1,387 | |
Total equity | Total equity | 19,642 | | | 22,536 | | Total equity | 25,468 | | | 19,817 | |
Total liabilities and equity | Total liabilities and equity | $ | 51,774 | | | $ | 53,864 | | Total liabilities and equity | $ | 60,982 | | | $ | 57,888 | |
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(millions of dollars, except per share amounts)
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| Year Ended December 31, | |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | |
Revenues (a) | $ | 64,912 | | | $ | 108,324 | | | $ | 117,033 | | |
Cost of sales: | | | | | | |
Cost of materials and other | 58,933 | | | 96,476 | | | 104,732 | | |
Lower of cost or market (LCM) inventory valuation adjustment | (19) | | | 0 | | | 0 | | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 4,435 | | | 4,868 | | | 4,690 | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,303 | | | 2,202 | | | 2,017 | | |
Total cost of sales | 65,652 | | | 103,546 | | | 111,439 | | |
Other operating expenses | 35 | | | 21 | | | 45 | | |
General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 756 | | | 868 | | | 925 | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 48 | | | 53 | | | 52 | | |
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Operating income (loss) | (1,579) | | | 3,836 | | | 4,572 | | |
Other income, net | 132 | | | 104 | | | 130 | | |
Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | (563) | | | (454) | | | (470) | | |
Income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) | (2,010) | | | 3,486 | | | 4,232 | | |
Income tax expense (benefit) | (903) | | | 702 | | | 879 | | |
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Net income (loss) | (1,107) | | | 2,784 | | | 3,353 | | |
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests | 314 | | | 362 | | | 231 | | |
Net income (loss) attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | $ | (1,421) | | | $ | 2,422 | | | $ | 3,122 | | |
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Earnings (loss) per common share | $ | (3.50) | | | $ | 5.84 | | | $ | 7.30 | | |
Weighted-average common shares outstanding (in millions) | 407 | | | 413 | | | 426 | | |
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Earnings (loss) per common share – assuming dilution | $ | (3.50) | | | $ | 5.84 | | | $ | 7.29 | | |
Weighted-average common shares outstanding – assuming dilution (in millions) | 407 | | | 414 | | | 428 | | |
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Supplemental information: | | | | | | |
(a) Includes excise taxes on sales by certain of our international operations | $ | 4,797 | | | $ | 5,595 | | | $ | 5,626 | | |
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| Year Ended December 31, | |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | |
Revenues (a) | $ | 176,383 | | | $ | 113,977 | | | $ | 64,912 | | |
Cost of sales: | | | | | | |
Cost of materials and other | 150,770 | | | 102,714 | | | 58,933 | | |
Lower of cost or market (LCM) inventory valuation adjustment | — | | | — | | | (19) | | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 6,389 | | | 5,776 | | | 4,435 | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,428 | | | 2,358 | | | 2,303 | | |
Total cost of sales | 159,587 | | | 110,848 | | | 65,652 | | |
Asset impairment loss | 61 | | | — | | | — | | |
Other operating expenses | 66 | | | 87 | | | 35 | | |
General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 934 | | | 865 | | | 756 | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 45 | | | 47 | | | 48 | | |
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Operating income (loss) | 15,690 | | | 2,130 | | | (1,579) | | |
Other income, net | 179 | | | 16 | | | 132 | | |
Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | (562) | | | (603) | | | (563) | | |
Income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) | 15,307 | | | 1,543 | | | (2,010) | | |
Income tax expense (benefit) | 3,428 | | | 255 | | | (903) | | |
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Net income (loss) | 11,879 | | | 1,288 | | | (1,107) | | |
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests | 351 | | | 358 | | | 314 | | |
Net income (loss) attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | $ | 11,528 | | | $ | 930 | | | $ | (1,421) | | |
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Earnings (loss) per common share | $ | 29.05 | | | $ | 2.27 | | | $ | (3.50) | | |
Weighted-average common shares outstanding (in millions) | 395 | | | 407 | | | 407 | | |
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Earnings (loss) per common share – assuming dilution | $ | 29.04 | | | $ | 2.27 | | | $ | (3.50) | | |
Weighted-average common shares outstanding – assuming dilution (in millions) | 396 | | | 407 | | | 407 | | |
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Supplemental information: | | | | | | |
(a) Includes excise taxes on sales by certain of our foreign operations | $ | 5,194 | | | $ | 5,645 | | | $ | 4,797 | | |
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
(millions of dollars)
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Net income (loss) | Net income (loss) | $ | (1,107) | | | $ | 2,784 | | | $ | 3,353 | | Net income (loss) | $ | 11,879 | | | $ | 1,288 | | | $ | (1,107) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss): | Other comprehensive income (loss): | | | | | | Other comprehensive income (loss): | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | Foreign currency translation adjustment | 161 | | | 349 | | | (517) | | Foreign currency translation adjustment | (613) | | | (47) | | | 161 | |
Net gain (loss) on pension and other postretirement benefits | Net gain (loss) on pension and other postretirement benefits | (80) | | | (234) | | | 49 | | Net gain (loss) on pension and other postretirement benefits | 335 | | | 378 | | | (80) | |
Net gain (loss) on cash flow hedges | Net gain (loss) on cash flow hedges | 2 | | | (8) | | | 0 | | Net gain (loss) on cash flow hedges | (6) | | | (2) | | | 2 | |
| Other comprehensive income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) | Other comprehensive income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) | 83 | | | 107 | | | (468) | | Other comprehensive income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) | (284) | | | 329 | | | 83 | |
Income tax expense (benefit) related to items of other comprehensive income (loss) | Income tax expense (benefit) related to items of other comprehensive income (loss) | (16) | | | (48) | | | 10 | | Income tax expense (benefit) related to items of other comprehensive income (loss) | 70 | | | 82 | | | (16) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) | Other comprehensive income (loss) | 99 | | | 155 | | | (478) | | Other comprehensive income (loss) | (354) | | | 247 | | | 99 | |
Comprehensive income (loss) | Comprehensive income (loss) | (1,008) | | | 2,939 | | | 2,875 | | Comprehensive income (loss) | 11,525 | | | 1,535 | | | (1,008) | |
Less: Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests | Less: Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests | 316 | | | 361 | | | 229 | | Less: Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests | 348 | | | 359 | | | 316 | |
Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | $ | (1,324) | | | $ | 2,578 | | | $ | 2,646 | | Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | $ | 11,177 | | | $ | 1,176 | | | $ | (1,324) | |
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY
(millions of dollars)
| | | Valero Energy Corporation Stockholders’ Equity | | | Valero Energy Corporation Stockholders’ Equity | |
| | Common Stock | | Additional Paid-in Capital | | Treasury Stock | | Retained Earnings | | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | | Total | | Non- controlling Interests | | Total Equity | | Common Stock | | Additional Paid-in Capital | | Treasury Stock | | Retained Earnings | | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | | Total | | Non- controlling Interests | | Total Equity |
Balance as of December 31, 2017 | $ | 7 | | | $ | 7,039 | | | $ | (13,315) | | | $ | 29,200 | | | $ | (940) | | | $ | 21,991 | | | $ | 909 | | | $ | 22,900 | | |
Reclassification of stranded income tax effects | — | | | — | | | — | | | 91 | | | (91) | | | 0 | | | — | | | 0 | | |
Net income | — | | | — | | | — | | | 3,122 | | | — | | | 3,122 | | | 231 | | | 3,353 | | |
Dividends on common stock ($3.20 per share) | — | | | — | | | — | | | (1,369) | | | — | | | (1,369) | | | — | | | (1,369) | | |
Stock-based compensation expense | — | | | 82 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 82 | | | — | | | 82 | | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | (70) | | | (99) | | | — | | | — | | | (169) | | | — | | | (169) | | |
Open market stock purchases | — | | | — | | | (1,511) | | | — | | | — | | | (1,511) | | | — | | | (1,511) | | |
Contributions from noncontrolling interests | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 32 | | | 32 | | |
Distributions to noncontrolling interests | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (116) | | | (116) | | |
Other | — | | | (3) | | | — | | | 0 | | | — | | | (3) | | | 10 | | | 7 | | |
Other comprehensive loss | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (476) | | | (476) | | | (2) | | | (478) | | |
Balance as of December 31, 2018 | 7 | | | 7,048 | | | (14,925) | | | 31,044 | | | (1,507) | | | 21,667 | | | 1,064 | | | 22,731 | | |
| Net income | — | | | — | | | — | | | 2,422 | | | — | | | 2,422 | | | 362 | | | 2,784 | | |
Dividends on common stock ($3.60 per share) | — | | | — | | | — | | | (1,492) | | | — | | | (1,492) | | | — | | | (1,492) | | |
Stock-based compensation expense | — | | | 77 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 77 | | | — | | | 77 | | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | (50) | | | 30 | | | — | | | — | | | (20) | | | — | | | (20) | | |
Open market stock purchases | — | | | — | | | (753) | | | — | | | — | | | (753) | | | — | | | (753) | | |
Acquisition of Valero Energy Partners LP (VLP) publicly held common units | — | | | (328) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (328) | | | (622) | | | (950) | | |
| Distributions to noncontrolling interests | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (70) | | | (70) | | |
Other | — | | | 74 | | | — | | | 0 | | | — | | | 74 | | | 0 | | | 74 | | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 156 | | | 156 | | | (1) | | | 155 | | |
Balance as of December 31, 2019 | Balance as of December 31, 2019 | 7 | | | 6,821 | | | (15,648) | | | 31,974 | | | (1,351) | | | 21,803 | | | 733 | | | 22,536 | | Balance as of December 31, 2019 | $ | 7 | | | $ | 6,821 | | | $ | (15,648) | | | $ | 31,974 | | | $ | (1,351) | | | $ | 21,803 | | | $ | 733 | | | $ | 22,536 | |
Net income (loss) | Net income (loss) | — | | | — | | | — | | | (1,421) | | | — | | | (1,421) | | | 314 | | | (1,107) | | Net income (loss) | — | | | — | | | — | | | (1,421) | | | — | | | (1,421) | | | 314 | | | (1,107) | |
Dividends on common stock ($3.92 per share) | Dividends on common stock ($3.92 per share) | — | | | — | | | — | | | (1,600) | | | — | | | (1,600) | | | — | | | (1,600) | | Dividends on common stock ($3.92 per share) | — | | | — | | | — | | | (1,600) | | | — | | | (1,600) | | | — | | | (1,600) | |
Stock-based compensation expense | Stock-based compensation expense | — | | | 76 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 76 | | | — | | | 76 | | Stock-based compensation expense | — | | | 76 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 76 | | | — | | | 76 | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | (83) | | | 59 | | | — | | | — | | | (24) | | | — | | | (24) | | Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | (83) | | | 85 | | | — | | | — | | | 2 | | | — | | | 2 | |
Open market stock purchases | — | | | — | | | (130) | | | — | | | — | | | (130) | | | — | | | (130) | | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | | Purchases of common stock for treasury | — | | | — | | | (156) | | | — | | | — | | | (156) | | | — | | | (156) | |
| Distributions to noncontrolling interests | Distributions to noncontrolling interests | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (208) | | | (208) | | Distributions to noncontrolling interests | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (208) | | | (208) | |
| Other comprehensive income | Other comprehensive income | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 97 | | | 97 | | | 2 | | | 99 | | Other comprehensive income | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 97 | | | 97 | | | 2 | | | 99 | |
Balance as of December 31, 2020 | Balance as of December 31, 2020 | $ | 7 | | | $ | 6,814 | | | $ | (15,719) | | | $ | 28,953 | | | $ | (1,254) | | | $ | 18,801 | | | $ | 841 | | | $ | 19,642 | | Balance as of December 31, 2020 | 7 | | | 6,814 | | | (15,719) | | | 28,953 | | | (1,254) | | | 18,801 | | | 841 | | | 19,642 | |
Net income | | Net income | — | | | — | | | — | | | 930 | | | — | | | 930 | | | 358 | | | 1,288 | |
Dividends on common stock ($3.92 per share) | | Dividends on common stock ($3.92 per share) | — | | | — | | | — | | | (1,602) | | | — | | | (1,602) | | | — | | | (1,602) | |
Stock-based compensation expense | | Stock-based compensation expense | — | | | 80 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 80 | | | — | | | 80 | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | | Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | (67) | | | 69 | | | — | | | — | | | 2 | | | — | | | 2 | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | | Purchases of common stock for treasury | — | | | — | | | (27) | | | — | | | — | | | (27) | | | — | | | (27) | |
Contributions from noncontrolling interests | | Contributions from noncontrolling interests | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 189 | | | 189 | |
Distributions to noncontrolling interests | | Distributions to noncontrolling interests | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (2) | | | (2) | |
| Other comprehensive income | | Other comprehensive income | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 246 | | | 246 | | | 1 | | | 247 | |
Balance as of December 31, 2021 | | Balance as of December 31, 2021 | 7 | | | 6,827 | | | (15,677) | | | 28,281 | | | (1,008) | | | 18,430 | | | 1,387 | | | 19,817 | |
Net income | | Net income | — | | | — | | | — | | | 11,528 | | | — | | | 11,528 | | | 351 | | | 11,879 | |
Dividends on common stock ($3.92 per share) | | Dividends on common stock ($3.92 per share) | — | | | — | | | — | | | (1,562) | | | — | | | (1,562) | | | — | | | (1,562) | |
Stock-based compensation expense | | Stock-based compensation expense | — | | | 89 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 89 | | | — | | | 89 | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | | Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | (53) | | | 57 | | | — | | | — | | | 4 | | | — | | | 4 | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | | Purchases of common stock for treasury | — | | | — | | | (4,577) | | | — | | | — | | | (4,577) | | | — | | | (4,577) | |
Contributions from noncontrolling interests | | Contributions from noncontrolling interests | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 265 | | | 265 | |
Distributions to noncontrolling interests | | Distributions to noncontrolling interests | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (93) | | | (93) | |
| Other comprehensive loss | | Other comprehensive loss | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (351) | | | (351) | | | (3) | | | (354) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2022 | | Balance as of December 31, 2022 | $ | 7 | | | $ | 6,863 | | | $ | (20,197) | | | $ | 38,247 | | | $ | (1,359) | | | $ | 23,561 | | | $ | 1,907 | | | $ | 25,468 | |
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(millions of dollars)
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Cash flows from operating activities: | | | | | |
Net income (loss) | $ | (1,107) | | | $ | 2,784 | | | $ | 3,353 | |
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities: | | | | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,351 | | | 2,255 | | | 2,069 | |
LCM inventory valuation adjustment | (19) | | | 0 | | | 0 | |
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Deferred income tax expense | 158 | | | 234 | | | 203 | |
Changes in current assets and current liabilities | (345) | | | 294 | | | (1,297) | |
Changes in deferred charges and credits and other operating activities, net | (90) | | | (36) | | | 43 | |
Net cash provided by operating activities | 948 | | | 5,531 | | | 4,371 | |
Cash flows from investing activities: | | | | | |
Capital expenditures (excluding variable interest entities (VIEs)) | (1,014) | | | (1,627) | | | (1,463) | |
Capital expenditures of VIEs: | | | | | |
Diamond Green Diesel Holdings LLC (DGD) | (523) | | | (142) | | | (165) | |
Other VIEs | (251) | | | (225) | | | (124) | |
Deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures (excluding VIEs) | (623) | | | (762) | | | (888) | |
Deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures of DGD | (25) | | | (18) | | | (27) | |
Investments in unconsolidated joint ventures | (54) | | | (164) | | | (181) | |
Peru Acquisition, net of cash acquired | 0 | | | 0 | | | (468) | |
Acquisition of ethanol plants | 0 | | | (3) | | | (320) | |
Acquisitions of undivided interests | 0 | | | (72) | | | (212) | |
Minor acquisitions | 0 | | | 0 | | | (88) | |
Other investing activities, net | 65 | | | 12 | | | 8 | |
Net cash used in investing activities | (2,425) | | | (3,001) | | | (3,928) | |
Cash flows from financing activities: | | | | | |
Proceeds from debt issuances and borrowings (excluding VIEs) | 4,320 | | | 1,892 | | | 1,258 | |
Proceeds from borrowings of VIEs | 250 | | | 239 | | | 109 | |
Repayments of debt and finance lease obligations (excluding VIEs) | (490) | | | (1,811) | | | (1,366) | |
Repayments of debt of VIEs | (5) | | | (6) | | | (6) | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | (156) | | | (777) | | | (1,708) | |
Common stock dividend payments | (1,600) | | | (1,492) | | | (1,369) | |
Acquisition of VLP publicly held common units | 0 | | | (950) | | | 0 | |
Contributions from noncontrolling interests | 0 | | | 0 | | | 32 | |
Distributions to noncontrolling interests | (208) | | | (70) | | | (116) | |
Other financing activities, net | (34) | | | (22) | | | (2) | |
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities | 2,077 | | | (2,997) | | | (3,168) | |
Effect of foreign exchange rate changes on cash | 130 | | | 68 | | | (143) | |
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents | 730 | | | (399) | | | (2,868) | |
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year | 2,583 | | | 2,982 | | | 5,850 | |
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year | $ | 3,313 | | | $ | 2,583 | | | $ | 2,982 | |
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| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Cash flows from operating activities: | | | | | |
Net income (loss) | $ | 11,879 | | | $ | 1,288 | | | $ | (1,107) | |
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities: | | | | | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,473 | | | 2,405 | | | 2,351 | |
Loss (gain) on early redemption and retirement of debt, net | (14) | | | 193 | | | — | |
LCM inventory valuation adjustment | — | | | — | | | (19) | |
Asset impairment loss | 61 | | | — | | | — | |
Gain on sale of assets | — | | | (62) | | | — | |
Deferred income tax expense (benefit) | 50 | | | (126) | | | 158 | |
Changes in current assets and current liabilities | (1,626) | | | 2,225 | | | (345) | |
Changes in deferred charges and credits and other operating activities, net | (249) | | | (64) | | | (90) | |
Net cash provided by operating activities | 12,574 | | | 5,859 | | | 948 | |
Cash flows from investing activities: | | | | | |
Capital expenditures (excluding variable interest entities (VIEs)) | (788) | | | (513) | | | (1,014) | |
Capital expenditures of VIEs: | | | | | |
Diamond Green Diesel Holdings LLC (DGD) | (853) | | | (1,042) | | | (523) | |
Other VIEs | (40) | | | (110) | | | (251) | |
Deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures (excluding VIEs) | (1,030) | | | (787) | | | (623) | |
Deferred turnaround and catalyst cost expenditures of DGD | (26) | | | (6) | | | (25) | |
Proceeds from sale of assets | 32 | | | 270 | | | — | |
Investments in nonconsolidated joint ventures | (1) | | | (9) | | | (54) | |
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Other investing activities, net | (99) | | | 38 | | | 65 | |
Net cash used in investing activities | (2,805) | | | (2,159) | | | (2,425) | |
Cash flows from financing activities: | | | | | |
Proceeds from debt issuances and borrowings (excluding VIEs) | 2,239 | | | 1,446 | | | 4,320 | |
Proceeds from borrowings of VIEs: | | | | | |
DGD | 809 | | | 301 | | | — | |
Other VIEs | 105 | | | 81 | | | 250 | |
Repayments of debt and finance lease obligations (excluding VIEs) | (5,067) | | | (2,849) | | | (490) | |
Repayments of debt and finance lease obligations of VIEs: | | | | | |
DGD | (823) | | | (180) | | | — | |
Other VIEs | (73) | | | (6) | | | (5) | |
Premiums paid on early redemption and retirement of debt | (56) | | | (179) | | | — | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | (4,577) | | | (27) | | | (156) | |
Common stock dividend payments | (1,562) | | | (1,602) | | | (1,600) | |
Contributions from noncontrolling interests | 265 | | | 189 | | | — | |
Distributions to noncontrolling interests | (93) | | | (2) | | | (208) | |
Other financing activities, net | (16) | | | (18) | | | (34) | |
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities | (8,849) | | | (2,846) | | | 2,077 | |
Effect of foreign exchange rate changes on cash | (180) | | | (45) | | | 130 | |
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents | 740 | | | 809 | | | 730 | |
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year | 4,122 | | | 3,313 | | | 2,583 | |
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year | $ | 4,862 | | | $ | 4,122 | | | $ | 3,313 | |
See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
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1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS, BASIS OF PRESENTATION, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Description of Business
The terms “Valero,” “we,” “our,” and “us,” as used in this report, may refer to Valero Energy Corporation, one or more of its consolidated subsidiaries, or all of them taken as a whole. The term “DGD,” as used in this report, may refer to Diamond Green Diesel Holdings LLC, its wholly owned consolidated subsidiary, or both of them taken as a whole.
We are an internationala multinational manufacturer and marketer of petroleum-based and low-carbon liquid transportation fuels and petrochemical products.products, and we sell our products primarily in the United States (U.S.), Canada, the United Kingdom (U.K.), Ireland, and Latin America. We own 15 petroleum refineries located in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 3.2 million barrels per day as of December 31, 2020 that are located in the United States (U.S.), Canada, and the United Kingdom (U.K.).day. We are also a joint venture partnermember in DGD, which owns a tworenewable diesel plantplants located in Norco, Louisiana with a production capacitythe Gulf Coast region of 290 million gallons per year as of December 31, 2020. We also own 13 ethanol plantsthe U.S. with a combined production capacity of 1.69approximately 1.2 billion gallons per year, as of December 31, 2020 that areand we own 12 ethanol plants located in the Mid-Continent region of the U.S. We sell our products primarily in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Latin America.
As discussed in Note 2, the outbreakwith a combined production capacity of COVID-19 and its development into a pandemic in March 2020 has resulted in significant economic disruption globally. While demand and market prices for most of our products increased during the second half of 2020 compared to the low product demand during the first half of 2020, developments with respect to COVID-19 have been occurring at a rapid pace and the risk remains that circumstances could change. For instance, beginning in the latter part of the second quarter of 2020, certain governmental authorities in the U.S. and other countries across the world began lifting many of the restrictions put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. However, in the second half of 2020, many locations where restrictions were lifted, and others where the restrictions were only more moderately lifted (such as California in our U.S. West Coast region, and New York, Canada, and the U.K. in our North Atlantic region), experienced a resurgence in the spread of COVID-19, which prompted many governmental authorities to reimpose certain restrictions. In December 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Canadian and U.K. regulators each granted emergency-use authorization for multiple COVID-19 vaccines to be used as immunization against the COVID-19 virus. Although these vaccines may be seen as a key factor in helping to restore public confidence, and thus stimulate and increase economic activity, potentially to pre-pandemic levels, they may not be distributed widely on a timely basis and they may not be effective against new variants of the virus. Based on these and other circumstances that cannot be predicted, the broader implications of the pandemic on our results of operations and financial position remain uncertain. Therefore, our operating results for the year ended December 31, 2020 do not fully reflect the impact this disruption will likely continue to have on us.approximately 1.6 billion gallons per year.
Basis of Presentation
General
These consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordanceconformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and with the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Reclassifications
Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the 2020 presentation. The changes were due to (i) the reclassification of amounts for income taxes receivable from prepaid expenses and other to
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“receivables, net” in the consolidated balance sheets and (ii) the reclassification of amounts for repayments of debt and finance lease obligations from “other financing activities, net” in the consolidated statements of cash flows to repayments of debt and finance lease obligations (excluding VIEs).
Significant Accounting Policies
Principles of Consolidation
These financial statements include those of Valero, our wholly owned subsidiaries, and VIEs in which we have a controlling financial interest. OurThe VIEs that we consolidate are described in Note 13.11. The ownership interests held by others in the VIEs are recorded as noncontrolling interests. Intercompany items and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Investments in less than wholly owned entities where we have significant influence are accounted for using the equity method.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates. On an ongoing basis, we review our estimates based on currently available information. Changes in facts and circumstances may result in revised estimates.
Cash Equivalents
Our cash equivalents are short-term, highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to known amounts of cash and have a maturity of three months or less when acquired.
Investments in Debt Securities
Investments in debt securities that have stated maturities of three months or less from the date of acquisition are classified as cash equivalents, and those with stated maturities of greater than three months
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but less than one year are classified as short-term investments, which are reflected in prepaid expenses and other on our balance sheet. Our investments in debt securities are classified as available-for-sale (AFS) and are subsequently measured and carried at fair value on our balance sheet with changes in fair value reported in other comprehensive income until realized. The cost of a security sold is determined using the first-in, first-out method.
Receivables
Trade receivables are carried at amortized cost, which is the original invoice amount adjusted for cash collections, write-offs, and foreign exchange. We maintain an allowance for credit losses, which is adjusted based on management’s assessment of our customers’ historical collection experience, known or expected credit risks, and industry and economic conditions.
Inventories
The cost of (i) refinery feedstocks and refined petroleum products and blendstocks, (ii) renewable diesel feedstocks (i.e., renderedwaste and recycled materials, includingrenewable feedstocks, predominately animal fats, used cooking oils, and other vegetable oils)inedible distillers corn oil) and products, and (iii) ethanol feedstocks and products is determined under the last-in, first-out (LIFO) method using the dollar-value LIFO approach, with any increments valued based on average purchase prices during the year. Our LIFO inventories are carried at the lower of cost or market. The cost of products purchased for resale and the cost of materials and supplies are determined principally under the weighted-average cost method. Our non-LIFO inventories are carried at the lower of cost or net realizable value.
In determining the market value of our inventories, we assume that feedstocks are converted into products, which requires us to make estimates regarding the products expected to be produced from those feedstocks and the conversion costs required to convert those feedstocks into products. We also estimate the usual and customary transportation costs required to move the inventory from our plants to the appropriate points of sale. We then apply an estimated selling price to our inventories. If the aggregate market value of our LIFO inventories or the aggregate net realizable value of our non-LIFO inventories is less than the related aggregate cost, we recognize a loss for the difference in our statements of income. To the extent the aggregate market value of our LIFO inventories subsequently increases, we recognize an increase to the value of our inventories (not to exceed cost) and a gain in our statements of income.
Property, Plant, and Equipment
The cost of property, plant, and equipment (property assets) purchased or constructed, including betterments of property assets, is capitalized. However, the cost of repairs to and normal maintenance of
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property assets is expensed as incurred. Betterments of property assets are those that extend the useful life, increase the capacity or improve the operating efficiency of the asset, or improve the safety of our operations. The cost of property assets constructed includes interest and certain overhead costs allocable to the construction activities.
Our operations are highly capital intensive. Each of our refineries and plants comprises a large base of property assets, consisting of a series of interconnected, highly integrated and interdependent crude oil and other feedstock processing facilities and supporting logistical infrastructure (Units), and these Units are improved continuously.other property assets that support our business. Improvements consist of the addition of new Units and other property assets and betterments of existing Units.those Units and assets. We plan for these improvements by developing a multi-year capital investment program that is updated and revised based on changing internal and external factors.
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Depreciation of property assets used in our refiningcrude oil processing and waste and renewable diesel segmentsfeedstocks processing facilities is recorded on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of these assets primarily using the composite method of depreciation. We maintain a separate composite group of property assets for each of our refineries and our renewable diesel plant.plants. We estimate the useful life of each group based on an evaluation of the property assets comprising the group, and such evaluations consist of, but are not limited to, the physical inspection of the assets to determine their condition, consideration of the manner in which the assets are maintained, assessment of the need to replace assets, and evaluation of the manner in which improvements impact the useful life of the group. The estimated useful lives of our composite groups range primarily from 20 to 30 years.
Under the composite method of depreciation, the cost of an improvement is added to the composite group to which it relates and is depreciated over that group’s estimated useful life. We design improvements to our refineriescrude oil processing and waste and renewable diesel plantfeedstocks processing facilities in accordance with engineering specifications, design standards, and practices we believe to be accepted in our industry, and these improvements have design lives consistent with our estimated useful lives. Therefore, we believe the use of the group life to depreciate the cost of improvements made to the group is reasonable because the estimated useful life of each improvement is consistent with that of the group.
Also under the composite method of depreciation, the historical cost of a minor property asset (net of salvage value) that is retired or replaced is charged to accumulated depreciation and no gain or loss is recognized in income.recognized. However, a gain or loss is recognized in income for a major property asset that is retired, replaced, sold, or for an abnormal disposition of a property asset (primarily involuntary conversions). Gains and losses are reflected in depreciation and amortization expense, unless such amounts are reported separately due to materiality.
Depreciation of propertyour corn processing facilities, administrative buildings, and other assets used in our ethanol segment is recorded on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the related assets.assets using the component method of deprecation. The estimated useful life of our corn processing facilities is 20 years.
Leasehold improvements are amortized on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the lease term or the estimated useful life of the related asset. Finance lease ROU (defined below)right-of-use assets are amortized as discussed in “Leases” below.below under “Leases.”
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Deferred Charges and Other Assets
“Deferred charges and other assets, net” primarily include the following:
•turnaround costs, which are incurred in connection with planned major maintenance activities at our refineries, renewable diesel plant,plants, and ethanol plants, are deferred when incurred and amortized on a straight-line basis over the period of time estimated to lapse until the next turnaround occurs;
•fixed-bed catalyst costs, representing the cost of catalyst that is changed out at periodic intervals when the quality of the catalyst has deteriorated beyond its prescribed function, are deferred when incurred and amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life of the specific catalyst;
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•operating lease ROU (defined below)right-of-use assets, which are amortized as discussed inbelow under “Leases” below;;
•investments in unconsolidatednonconsolidated joint ventures;
•noncurrent income taxes receivable;purchased compliance credits, which are described below under “Costs of Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs”;
•goodwill;
•intangible assets, which are amortized over their estimated useful lives; and
•goodwill.noncurrent income taxes receivable.
Leases
We evaluate if a contract is or contains a lease at inception of the contract. If we determine that a contract is or contains a lease, we recognize a right-of-use (ROU) asset and lease liability at the commencement date of the lease based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. The present value of the lease payments is determined by using the implicit rate when readily determinable. If not readily determinable, our centrally managed treasury group provides an incremental borrowing rate based on quoted interest rates obtained from financial institutions. The rate used is for a term similar to the duration of the lease based on information available at the commencement date. Lease terms include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise those options.
We recognize ROU assets and lease liabilities for leasing arrangements with terms greater than one year. Except for the marine transportation asset class, we account for lease and non-leasenonlease components in a contract as a single lease component for all classes of underlying assets. Our marine transportation contracts include non-leasenonlease components, such as maintenance and crew costs. We allocate the consideration in these contracts based on pricing information provided by the third-party broker.
Expense for an operating lease is recognized as a single lease cost on a straight-line basis over the lease term and is reflected in the appropriate income statement line item based on the leased asset’s function. Amortization expense of a finance lease ROU asset is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lesser of the useful life of the leased asset or the lease term. However, if the lessor transfers ownership of the finance lease ROU asset to us at the end of the lease term, the finance lease ROU asset is amortized over the useful life of the leased asset. Amortization expense is reflected in “depreciationdepreciation and amortization
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expense.” Interest expense is incurred based on the carrying value of the lease liability and is reflected in “interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest.”
Impairment of Assets
Long-lived assets are tested for recoverability whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the asset may not be recoverable. A long-lived asset is not deemed recoverable if its carrying amount exceeds the sum of the undiscounted cash flows expected to result from its use and eventual disposition. If a long-lived asset is not deemed recoverable, an impairment loss is recognized for the amount by which the carrying amount of the long-lived asset exceeds its fair value, with fair value determined based on discounted estimated net cash flows or other appropriate methods.
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We evaluate our equity method investments for impairment when there is evidence that we may not be able to recover the carrying amount of our investments or the investee is unable to sustain an earnings capacity that justifies the carrying amount. A loss in the value of an investment that is other than a temporary decline is recognized currently in income based on the difference between the estimated current fair value of the investment and its carrying amount.
Goodwill is not amortized, but is tested for impairment annually on October 1st and in interim periods when events or changes in circumstancecircumstances indicate that the fair value of a reporting unit with goodwill is below its carrying amount. A goodwill impairment loss is recognized for the amount that the carrying amount of a reporting unit, including goodwill, exceeds its fair value, limited to the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit.
Asset Retirement Obligations
We record a liability, which is referred to as an asset retirement obligation, at fair value for the estimated cost to retire a tangible long-lived asset at the time we incur that liability, which is generally when the asset is purchased, constructed, or leased. We record the liability when we have a legal obligation to incur costs to retire the asset and when a reasonable estimate of the fair value of the liability can be made. If a reasonable estimate cannot be made at the time the liability is incurred, we record the liability when sufficient information is available to estimate the liability’s fair value.
We have obligations with respect to certain of our assets related toat our refiningrefineries and ethanol segmentsplants to clean and/or dispose of various component parts of the assets at the time they are retired. However, these component parts can be used for extended and indeterminate periods of time as long as they are properly maintained and/or upgraded. It is our practice and current intent to maintain all our assets and continue making improvements to those assets based on technological advances. As a result, we believe that assets at our assets related to our refiningrefineries and ethanol segmentsplants have indeterminate lives for purposes of estimating asset retirement obligations because dates or ranges of dates upon which we would retire such assets cannot reasonably be estimated at this time. We will recognize a liability at such time when sufficient information exists to estimate a date or range of potential settlement dates that is needed to employ a present value technique to estimate fair value.
Environmental Matters
Liabilities for future remediation costs are recorded when environmental assessments and/or remedial efforts are probable and the costs can be reasonably estimated. Other than for assessments, the timing and magnitude of these accruals generally are based on the completion of investigations or other studies or a
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commitment to a formal plan of action. Amounts recorded for environmental liabilities have not been reduced by possible recoveries from third parties and have not been measured on a discounted basis.
Legal Contingencies
We are subject to legal proceedings, claims, and liabilities that arise in the ordinary course of business. We accrue losses associated with legal claims when such losses are probable and reasonably estimable. If we determine that a loss is probable and cannot estimate a specific amount for that loss but can estimate a range of loss, the best estimate within the range is accrued. If no amount within the range is a better estimate than any other, the minimum amount of the range is accrued. Estimates are adjusted as additional
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information becomes available or circumstances change. Legal defense costs associated with loss contingencies are expensed in the period incurred.
Foreign Currency Translation
Generally, our internationalforeign subsidiaries use their local currency as their functional currency. Balance sheet amounts are translated into U.S. dollars using exchange rates in effect as of the balance sheet date. Income statement amounts are translated into U.S. dollars using the exchange rates in effect at the time the underlying transactions occur. Foreign currency translation adjustments are recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss.
Revenue Recognition
Our revenues are primarily generated from contracts with customers. We generate revenue from contracts with customers from the sale of products by our refining, renewable diesel,Refining, Renewable Diesel, and ethanolEthanol segments. Revenues are recognized when we satisfy our performance obligation to transfer products to our customers, which typically occurs at a point in time upon shipment or delivery of the products, and for an amount that reflects the transaction price that is allocated to the performance obligation.
The customer is able to direct the use of, and obtain substantially all of the benefits from, the products at the point of shipment or delivery. As a result, we consider control to have transferred upon shipment or delivery because we have a present right to payment at that time, the customer has legal title to the asset, we have transferred physical possession of the asset, and the customer has significant risks and rewards of ownership of the asset.
Our contracts with customers state the final terms of the sale, including the description, quantity, and price for goods sold. Payment terms for our customers vary by type of customer and method of delivery; however, the payment is typically due in full within two to ten days from date of delivery.invoice. In the normal course of business, we generally do not accept product returns.
The transaction price is the consideration that we expect to be entitled to in exchange for our products. The transaction price for substantially all of our contracts is generally based on commodity market pricing (i.e., variable consideration). As such, this market pricing may be constrained (i.e., not estimable) at the inception of the contract but will be recognized based on the applicable market pricing, which will be known upon transfer of the goods to the customer. Some of our contracts also contain variable consideration in the form of sales incentives to our customers, such as discounts and rebates. For contracts that include variable consideration, we estimate the factors that determine the variable consideration in order to establish the transaction price.
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We have elected to exclude from the measurement of the transaction price all taxes assessed by governmentalgovernment authorities that are both imposed on and concurrent with a specific revenue-producing transaction and collected by us from a customer (e.g., sales tax, use tax, value-added tax, etc.). We continue to include in the transaction price excise taxes that are imposed on certain inventories in our internationalforeign operations. The amount of such taxes is provided in supplemental information in a footnote onto the statements of income.
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There are instances where we provide shipping services in relation to the goods sold to our customer. Shipping and handling costs that occur before the customer obtains control of the goods are deemed to be fulfillment activities and are included in cost of materials and other. We have elected to account for shipping and handling activities that occur after the customer has obtained control of a good as fulfillment activities rather than as a promised service and we have included these activities in cost of materials and other.
We enter into certain purchase and sale arrangements with the same counterparty that are deemed to be made in contemplation of one another. We combine these transactions and present the net effect in cost of materials and other. We also enter into refined petroleum product exchange transactions to fulfill sales contracts with our customers by accessing refined petroleum products in markets where we do not operate our own refineries. These refined petroleum product exchanges are accounted for as exchanges of nonmonetary assets, and no revenues are recorded on these transactions.
Cost Classifications
“Cost of materials and other”other primarily includes the cost of materials that are a component of our products sold. These costs include (i) the direct cost of materials (such as crude oil and other refinery feedstocks, refined petroleum products and blendstocks, renewable diesel feedstocks and products, and ethanol feedstocks and products) that are a component of our products sold; (ii) costs related to the delivery (such as shipping and handling costs) of products sold; (iii) costs related to our environmental credit obligations to comply with various governmentalthe Renewable and regulatory programs (such as the costLow-Carbon Fuel Programs defined below under “Costs of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) as required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Renewableand Low-Carbon Fuel Standard, emission credits under various cap-and-trade systems, as defined in Note 20)Programs”; (iv) the blender’s tax credit recognized on qualified biodieselfuel mixtures; (v) gains and losses on our commodity derivative instruments; and (vi) certain excise taxes.
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Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense)” include costs to operate our refineries (and associated logistics assets), renewable diesel plants, and ethanol plants, and logistics assets, except for depreciation and amortization expense.plants. These costs primarily include employee-related expenses, energy and utility costs, catalysts and chemical costs, and repair and maintenance expenses.
“Depreciation and amortization expense”expense associated with our operations is separately presented in our statement of income as a component of cost of sales and general and administrative expenses and is disclosed by reportable segment in Note 18.16.
“Other operating expenses”expenses include costs, if any, incurred by our reportable segments that are not associated with our cost of sales.
Costs of Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs
We purchase credits to comply with various government and regulatory blending programs, such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard, the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Canada Clean Fuel Regulations, and similar programs in other jurisdictions in which we operate (collectively, the Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs). We purchase compliance credits (primarily Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs)) to comply with government regulations that require us to blend a certain volume of renewable and low-carbon fuels into the petroleum-based transportation fuels we produce in, or import into, the respective jurisdiction to be consumed therein based on annual
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Environmental Compliance Program Costs
We purchase credits in the open market to meet our obligations under various environmental compliance programs. We purchase biofuel credits (primarily RINs in the U.S.) to comply with government regulations that require us to blend a certain percentage of biofuels into the products we produce.quotas. To the degree that we are unable to blend biofuelsrenewable and low-carbon fuels at the required percentage,quotas, we must purchase biofuelcompliance credits to meet our obligation. We purchase greenhouse gas (GHG) emission credits to comply with government regulations concerning various GHG emission programs, including cap-and-trade systems. These programs are described in Note 21 under “Risk Management Activities by Type of Risk—Environmental Compliance Program Price Risk.”obligations.
The costs of purchased biofuel credits and GHG emissioncompliance credits are charged to cost of materials and other aswhen such credits are needed to satisfy our obligation.compliance obligations. To the extent we have not purchased enough credits nor entered into fixed-price purchase contracts to satisfy our obligationobligations as of the balance sheet date, we charge cost of materials and other for such deficiency based on the market priceprices of the credits as of the balance sheet date, and we record a liability for our obligation to purchase those credits. See Note 2018 for disclosure of our fair value liability. If the number of purchased credits exceeds our obligation as of the balance sheet date, we record a prepaid asset equal to the amount paid for those excess credits.
Stock-Based Compensation
Compensation expense for our share-based compensation plans is based on the fair value of the awards granted and is recognized in income on a straight-line basis over the shorter of (i) the requisite service period of each award or (ii) the period from the grant date to the date retirement eligibility is achieved if that date is expected to occur during the vesting period established in the award.
Income Taxes
Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred amounts are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the year those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. Deferred tax assets are reduced by unrecognized tax benefits, if such items may be available to offset the unrecognized tax benefit. Stranded incomeIncome tax effects are released from accumulated other comprehensive loss to retained earnings, when applicable, on an individual item basis as those items are reclassified into income.
We have elected to classify any interest expense and penalties related to the underpayment of income taxes in income tax expense.
We have elected to treat the global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) tax as a period expense.
Earnings per Common Share
Earnings per common share is computed by dividing net income attributable to Valero stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the year. Participating securities are included in the computation of basic earnings per share using the two-class method. Earnings per common share – assuming dilution is computed by dividing net income attributable to Valero stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the year increased by the effect of dilutive securities. Potentially dilutive securities are excluded from the computation of earnings per common share – assuming dilution when the effect of including such shares would be antidilutive.
Financial Instruments
Our financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, investments in debt securities, receivables, payables, debt obligations, operating and finance lease obligations, commodity derivative contracts, and foreign currency derivative contracts. The estimated fair values of cash and cash equivalents, receivables,
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Financial Instruments
Our financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, receivables, payables, debt obligations, and operating and finance lease obligations commodity derivative contracts, and foreign currency derivative contracts. The estimated fair values of these financial instruments approximate their carrying amounts, except for certain debt as discusseddisclosed in Note 20.18. Investments in debt securities, commodity derivative contracts, and foreign currency derivative contracts are recognized at their fair values.
Derivatives and Hedging
All derivative instruments, not designated as normal purchases or sales, are recordedrecognized in the balance sheet as either assets or liabilities measured at their fair values with changes in fair value recognized currently in income.income or in other comprehensive income as appropriate. To manage commodity price risk, we primarily use cash flow hedges and economic hedges, and we also use fair value hedges from time to time. The cash flow effects of all of our derivative instruments are reflected in operating activities in the consolidated statements of cash flows.
Accounting PronouncementsPronouncement Adopted During 20202022
We adopted the following Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs) on January 1, 2020. Our adoptionUpdate (ASU)2022-06—“Reference Rate Reform (Topic848): Deferral of these ASUs did not have a material impact on our financial statements or related disclosures.
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2016-13 | Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326):
Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (including
codification improvements in ASUs 2018-19 and 2019-11 and
ASU 2020-02—Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326):
Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to SEC Staff Accounting
Bulletin No. 119)
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2018-15 | Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software
(Subtopic 350-40): Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs
Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement That Is a Service Contract
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2019-12 | Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting
for Income Taxes
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The following FASB ASUthe Sunset Date of Topic 848” was issued and adopted prospectively by us on March 12, 2020.December 21, 2022. Our adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on our financial statements or related disclosures.
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2020-04 | Reference Rate Reform (Topic848): Facilitation of the Effects of
Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting
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2. RECEIVABLES
Accounting Pronouncement Adopted During January2021
TheReceivables consisted of the following FASB ASU was issued and adopted by us on January 7, 2021. Our adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on our financial statements or related disclosures.(in millions):
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2021-01 | Reference Rate Reform (Topic848): Scope
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| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Receivables from contracts with customers | $ | 7,189 | | | $ | 6,228 | |
Receivables from certain purchase and sale arrangements | 3,602 | | | 3,768 | |
Receivables before allowance for credit losses | 10,791 | | | 9,996 | |
Allowance for credit losses | (30) | | | (28) | |
Receivables after allowance for credit losses | 10,761 | | | 9,968 | |
Income taxes receivable | 142 | | | 21 | |
Other receivables | 1,016 | | | 389 | |
Receivables, net | $ | 11,919 | | | $ | 10,378 | |
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2. UNCERTAINTIES AND CERTAIN SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES
Overview
The outbreak of COVID-19 and its development into a pandemic in March 2020 and certain developments in the global oil markets have impacted and continue to impact our business. We have responded in multiple ways to the impacts from these matters on our business, and we will strive to continue to respond to these impacts. During the early months of the pandemic, we reduced the amount of crude oil processed at most of our refineries in response to the decreased demand for our products, we temporarily idled various gasoline-making units at certain of our refineries to further limit gasoline production, and we took measures to reduce jet fuel production. We also temporarily idled 8 of our ethanol plants and reduced production at our remaining ethanol plants, in each case in order to address the decreased demand for ethanol. We have since increased the production to align with increasing demand, and we restarted the gasoline-making units and most of the ethanol plants that had been temporarily idled. Demand for our products taken as a whole, however, has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, and as of December 31, 2020, our refineries and plants are operating to meet current product demand.
Many uncertainties remain with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic, including its resulting economic effects, and we are unable to predict the ultimate economic impacts from the pandemic on our business and how quickly national economies can recover once the pandemic subsides, the timing or effectiveness of vaccine distributions, or whether any recovery will ultimately experience a reversal or other setbacks. However, the adverse impacts of the economic effects on our business have been and will likely continue to be significant. We believe we have proactively addressed many of the known impacts of the pandemic to the extent possible and we will strive to continue to do so, but there can be no assurance that any measures we have taken or may take will be fully effective. As a result, we expect these matters may affect our estimates and assumptions on amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes in the near term.
Impairment Analysis of Long-Lived Assets
Due to the adverse economic conditions discussed above, we reviewed our significant operating assets for the existence of impairment indicators during the year ended December 31, 2020. As a result, we reduced the estimated useful life of the ethanol plant in Riga, Michigan in September 2020 and evaluated 6 other ethanol plants and 1 refinery for potential impairment as of December 31, 2020, considering current economic conditions on our future estimated cash flows. Based on our analysis, we determined that the carrying amount of these assets was recoverable, as the undiscounted future cash flows from each asset exceeded its respective carrying value. The impact from the reduction in estimated useful life of the Riga, Michigan ethanol plant did not have a material impact on our results of operations or financial position; however, this plant ceased operations in 2020. We will continue to evaluate the economic conditions and their impact on our assumptions.
Impairment Analysis of Goodwill
We have $260 million of goodwill as of December 31, 2020. All of our goodwill is allocated to one reporting unit, the U.S. Gulf Coast refining region. Our annual test for the impairment of goodwill is performed on October 1 of each year. However, as discussed above, there were adverse changes in the capital and commodity markets that contributed to a significant decline in our common stock price compared to the price as of December 31, 2019 and early March 2020. Despite the decline in our common
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stock price, we determined our goodwill was 0t impaired as of October 1 and December 31, 2020. Nonetheless, we will continue to evaluate the economic conditions and their impact on our assumptions.
Inventory Valuation
See Note 5 regarding the estimates used to determine the market value of our inventories, as well as the recognition of a liquidation of LIFO inventory layers.
3. MERGER AND ACQUISITIONS
Merger with VLP
On January 10, 2019, we completed our acquisition of all of the outstanding publicly held common units of VLP pursuant to a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger (Merger Agreement, and together with the transactions contemplated thereby, the Merger Transaction) with VLP. Upon completion of the Merger Transaction, each outstanding publicly held common unit was converted into the right to receive $42.25 per common unit in cash without any interest thereon, and all such publicly traded common units were automatically canceled and ceased to exist. Upon completion of the Merger Transaction, we paid aggregate merger consideration of$950 million, which was funded with available cash on hand.
Prior to the completion of the Merger Transaction, we consolidated the financial statements of VLP and reflected noncontrolling interests on our balance sheet for the portion of VLP’s partners’ capital held by VLP’s public common unitholders. Upon completion of the Merger Transaction, VLP became our indirect wholly owned subsidiary and, as a result, we no longer reflect noncontrolling interests on our balance sheet with respect to VLP. In addition, we no longer attribute a portion of VLP’s net income to noncontrolling interests. Because we had a controlling financial interest in VLP before the Merger Transaction and retained our controlling financial interest in VLP after the Merger Transaction, the change in our ownership interest in VLP as a result of the merger was accounted for as an equity transaction. Accordingly, we did not recognize a gain or loss on the Merger Transaction.
Acquisition of Ethanol Plants
On November 15, 2018, we acquired 3 ethanol plants from two subsidiaries of Green Plains Inc. located in Bluffton, Indiana; Lakota, Iowa; and Riga, Michigan with a combined ethanol production capacity of 280 million gallons per year for total cash consideration of $320 million including working capital of $20 million. This acquisition was accounted for as an asset acquisition. Our Riga, Michigan ethanol plant ceased operations in 2020.
Peru Acquisition
On May 14, 2018, we acquired 100 percent of the issued and outstanding equity interests in Pure Biofuels del Peru S.A.C. (now known as Valero Peru S.A.C.) (Valero Peru) from Pegasus Capital Advisors L.P. and various minority equity holders. Valero Peru markets refined petroleum products through its logistics assets in Peru. Valero Peru owns a terminal at the Port of Callao, near Lima, with approximately 1 million barrels of storage capacity for refined petroleum and renewable products. Through one of its subsidiaries, Valero Peru also owns a 180,000-barrel storage terminal in Paita, in Northern Peru, which is scheduled to commence operations in the first quarter of 2021, pending regulatory approvals. This acquisition, which is referred to as the Peru Acquisition, was consistent with our general business strategy and broadens the geographic diversity of our refining segment. This acquisition was accounted for as a business combination.
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The following table summarizes the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date, based on an independent appraisal that was completed in the fourth quarter of 2018 (in millions). We paid $468 million from available cash on hand, of which $132 million was for working capital. During the third and fourth quarters of 2018, we recognized immaterial adjustments to the preliminary amounts recorded for the Peru Acquisition with a corresponding adjustment to goodwill due to the completion of the independent appraisal. These adjustments did not have a material effect on our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2018.
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Current assets, net of cash acquired | $ | 158 | |
Property, plant, and equipment | 102 | |
Deferred charges and other assets | 466 | |
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Current liabilities, excluding current portion of debt | (26) | |
Debt assumed, including current portion | (137) | |
Deferred income tax liabilities | (62) | |
Other long-term liabilities | (27) | |
Noncontrolling interest | (6) | |
Total consideration, net of cash acquired | $ | 468 | |
Deferred charges and other assets primarily include identifiable intangible assets of $200 million and goodwill of $260 million. Identifiable intangible assets, which consist of customer contracts and relationships, are amortized on a straight-line basis over ten years. Goodwill is calculated as the excess of the consideration transferred over the estimated fair values of the underlying tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed. Goodwill represents the future economic benefits expected to be recognized from our expansion into the Latin American refined petroleum products markets arising from other assets acquired that were not individually identified and separately recognized. We determined that the entire balance of goodwill is related to the refining segment. NaN of the goodwill is deductible for tax purposes.
Our statements of income include the results of operations of Valero Peru since the date of acquisition, and such results are reflected in the refining segment and allocated to one reporting unit, the U.S. Gulf Coast refining region. Results of operations since the date of acquisition, supplemental pro forma financial information, and acquisition-related costs have not been presented for the Peru Acquisition as such information is not material to our results of operations.
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4. RECEIVABLES
Receivables consisted of the following (in millions):
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| December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 |
Receivables from contracts with customers | $ | 3,642 | | | $ | 5,610 | |
Receivables from certain purchase and sale arrangements | 1,212 | | | 2,484 | |
Receivables before allowance for credit losses | 4,854 | | | 8,094 | |
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Allowance for credit losses | (47) | | | (36) | |
Receivables after allowance for credit losses | 4,807 | | | 8,058 | |
Income taxes receivable | 1,024 | | | 84 | |
Other receivables | 278 | | | 846 | |
Receivables, net | $ | 6,109 | | | $ | 8,988 | |
The increase to our income taxes receivable relates to the income tax benefit recorded during the year ended December 31, 2020 as described in Note 16.
There were no significant changes in our allowance for credit losses during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018.
5. INVENTORIES
Inventories consisted of the following (in millions):
| | | December 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Refinery feedstocks | Refinery feedstocks | $ | 1,979 | | | $ | 2,399 | | Refinery feedstocks | $ | 1,949 | | | $ | 1,995 | |
Refined petroleum products and blendstocks | Refined petroleum products and blendstocks | 3,425 | | | 4,034 | | Refined petroleum products and blendstocks | 3,579 | | | 3,567 | |
Renewable diesel feedstocks and products | Renewable diesel feedstocks and products | 50 | | | 46 | | Renewable diesel feedstocks and products | 583 | | | 135 | |
Ethanol feedstocks and products | Ethanol feedstocks and products | 297 | | | 260 | | Ethanol feedstocks and products | 328 | | | 273 | |
Materials and supplies | Materials and supplies | 287 | | | 274 | | Materials and supplies | 313 | | | 295 | |
| Inventories | Inventories | $ | 6,038 | | | $ | 7,013 | | Inventories | $ | 6,752 | | | $ | 6,265 | |
We compareAs of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the market valuereplacement cost (market value) of LIFO inventories toexceeded their cost on an aggregate basis, excluding materialsLIFO carrying amounts by $6.3 billion and supplies. In determining the market value of our inventories, we assume that feedstocks are converted into refined products, which requires us to make estimates regarding the refined products expected to be produced from those feedstocks and the conversion costs required to convert those feedstocks into refined products. We also estimate the usual and customary transportation costs required to move the inventory from our plants to the appropriate points of sale. We then apply an estimated selling price to our inventories. If the aggregate market value is less than the aggregate cost, we recognize a loss for the difference in our statements of income. To the extent the aggregate$5.2 billion, respectively. The market value of our LIFO inventories
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subsequently increases, we recognize an increase to the value of our inventories (not to exceed cost) and a gain in our statements of income.
The market value of our LIFO inventory fell below their LIFO inventory carrying amounts as of March 31, 2020, and as a result, we recorded an LCM inventory valuation reserve of $2.5 billion in order to state our inventories at market. As of September 30, 2020, we reevaluated our inventories and determined that our cost was lower than market. As a result, our LCM inventory valuation reserve was fully reversed as of September 30, 2020. The change in our LCM inventory valuation reserve resulted in a net benefit of $19 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 due to the foreign currency translation effect of the portion of the LCM inventory valuation adjustment attributable to our internationalforeign operations. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the replacement cost (market value) of LIFO inventories exceeded their LIFO carrying amounts by $1.3 billion and $2.5 billion, respectively.
During the year ended December 31, 2020,2022, we had a liquidation of certain LIFO inventory layers, which was due to weather-related production disruptions that increasedoccurred at the end of the year that decreased cost of materials and other by $224$323 million. Our LIFO inventory levels decreased during the year ended December 31, 2020 due to lower production resulting from lower demand for our products caused by the negative economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business.
Our non-LIFO inventories accounted for $918 million$1.6 billion and $1.4 billion of our total inventories as of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, respectively.
6.
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4. LEASES
General
We have entered into long-term leasing arrangements for the right to use various classes of underlying assets as follows:
•Pipelines, Terminals, and Tanks includes facilities and equipment used in the storage, transportation, production, and sale of refinery feedstock, refined petroleum product, ethanol, and corn inventories;
•Marine Transportation includes time charters for ocean-going tankers and coastal vessels;
•Rail Transportation includes railcars and related storage facilities; and
•Feedstock Processing EquipmentOther includes machinery, equipment, and various facilities used in our refining, renewable diesel, and ethanol operations;
•Energy and Gases includes facilities and equipment related to industrial gases and power used in our operations;
•Real Estate includes land and rights-of-way associated with our refineries, plants, and pipelines and other logistics assets, as well as office facilities; and
•Other includes equipment primarily used at our corporate offices, such as printers and copiers.
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In addition to fixed lease payments, some arrangements contain provisions for variable lease payments. Certain leases for pipelines, terminals, and tanks provide for variable lease payments based on, among other things, throughput volumes in excess of a base amount. Certain marine transportation leases contain provisions for payments that are contingent on usage. Additionally, if the rental increases are not scheduled in the lease, such as an increase based on subsequent changes in the index or rate, those rents are considered variable lease payments. In all instances, variable lease payments are recognized in the period in which the obligation for those payments is incurred.
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Lease Costs and Other Supplemental Information
In accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 842, “Leases,” (Topic 842), ourOur total lease cost comprises costs that are included in our income statement, as well as costs capitalized as part of an item of property, plant, and equipment or inventory. Total lease cost by class of underlying asset was as follows (in millions):
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| Pipelines, Terminals, and Tanks | | Transportation | | Feedstock Processing Equipment | | Energy and Gases | | Real Estate | | Other | | Total |
| | Marine | | Rail | | | | | |
Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Finance lease cost: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Amortization of ROU assets | $ | 109 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 2 | | | $ | 13 | | | $ | 4 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 128 | |
Interest on lease liabilities | 92 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 3 | | | 3 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 98 | |
Operating lease cost | 165 | | | 156 | | | 61 | | | 15 | | | 7 | | | 26 | | | 4 | | | 434 | |
Variable lease cost | 53 | | | 40 | | | 1 | | | 3 | | | 0 | | | 2 | | | 0 | | | 99 | |
Short-term lease cost | 9 | | | 45 | | | 0 | | | 37 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 91 | |
Sublease income | 0 | | | (10) | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (2) | | | 0 | | | (12) | |
Total lease cost | $ | 428 | | | $ | 231 | | | $ | 64 | | | $ | 71 | | | $ | 14 | | | $ | 26 | | | $ | 4 | | | $ | 838 | |
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Year ended December 31, 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Finance lease cost: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Amortization of ROU assets | $ | 44 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 7 | | | $ | 3 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 54 | |
Interest on lease liabilities | 47 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 1 | | | 2 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 50 | |
Operating lease cost | 182 | | | 145 | | | 52 | | | 20 | | | 9 | | | 27 | | | 4 | | | 439 | |
Variable lease cost | 66 | | | 35 | | | 0 | | | 1 | | | 0 | | | 1 | | | 0 | | | 103 | |
Short-term lease cost | 9 | | | 53 | | | 0 | | | 29 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 91 | |
Sublease income | 0 | | | (27) | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (3) | | | 0 | | | (30) | |
Total lease cost | $ | 348 | | | $ | 206 | | | $ | 52 | | | $ | 58 | | | $ | 14 | | | $ | 25 | | | $ | 4 | | | $ | 707 | |
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| Pipelines, Terminals, and Tanks | | Transportation | | Other | | Total |
| | Marine | | Rail | | |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
Finance lease cost: | | | | | | | | | |
Amortization of ROU assets | $ | 183 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 3 | | | $ | 32 | | | $ | 218 | |
Interest on lease liabilities | 78 | | | — | | | 1 | | | 5 | | | 84 | |
Operating lease cost | 171 | | | 102 | | | 68 | | | 38 | | | 379 | |
Variable lease cost | 79 | | | 50 | | | — | | | 9 | | | 138 | |
Short-term lease cost | 15 | | | 82 | | | 3 | | | 57 | | | 157 | |
Sublease income | — | | | (27) | | | — | | | (2) | | | (29) | |
Total lease cost | $ | 526 | | | $ | 207 | | | $ | 75 | | | $ | 139 | | | $ | 947 | |
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Year ended December 31, 2021 | | | | | | | | | |
Finance lease cost: | | | | | | | | | |
Amortization of ROU assets | $ | 137 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 2 | | | $ | 28 | | | $ | 167 | |
Interest on lease liabilities | 66 | | | — | | | 1 | | | 5 | | | 72 | |
Operating lease cost | 163 | | | 105 | | | 64 | | | 49 | | | 381 | |
Variable lease cost | 51 | | | 21 | | | — | | | 7 | | | 79 | |
Short-term lease cost | 5 | | | 44 | | | 1 | | | 46 | | | 96 | |
Sublease income | — | | | (4) | | | — | | | (3) | | | (7) | |
Total lease cost | $ | 422 | | | $ | 166 | | | $ | 68 | | | $ | 132 | | | $ | 788 | |
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Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | | | | | |
Finance lease cost: | | | | | | | | | |
Amortization of ROU assets | $ | 109 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 2 | | | $ | 17 | | | $ | 128 | |
Interest on lease liabilities | 92 | | | — | | | — | | | 6 | | | 98 | |
Operating lease cost | 165 | | | 156 | | | 61 | | | 52 | | | 434 | |
Variable lease cost | 53 | | | 40 | | | 1 | | | 5 | | | 99 | |
Short-term lease cost | 9 | | | 45 | | | — | | | 37 | | | 91 | |
Sublease income | — | | | (10) | | | — | | | (2) | | | (12) | |
Total lease cost | $ | 428 | | | $ | 231 | | | $ | 64 | | | $ | 115 | | | $ | 838 | |
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In accordance with FASB ASC Topic 840, “Leases,” which was superseded by Topic 842, “rental expense, net of sublease rental income” for the year ended December 31, 2018 was as follows (in millions):
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Minimum rental expense | $ | 515 | | | |
Contingent rental expense | 19 | | | |
Total rental expense | 534 | | | |
Less: Sublease rental income | 31 | | | |
Rental expense, net of sublease rental income | $ | 503 | | | |
The following table presents additional information related to our operating and finance leases (in millions, except for lease terms and discount rates):
| | | December 31, 2020 | | December 31, 2019 | | December 31, 2022 | | December 31, 2021 |
| | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases | | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases | | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases | | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases |
Supplemental balance sheet information | Supplemental balance sheet information | | | | | | Supplemental balance sheet information | | | | | |
ROU assets, net reflected in the following balance sheet line items: | ROU assets, net reflected in the following balance sheet line items: | | ROU assets, net reflected in the following balance sheet line items: | |
Property, plant, and equipment, net | Property, plant, and equipment, net | $ | — | | $ | 1,622 | | $ | — | | $ | 790 | Property, plant, and equipment, net | $ | — | | $ | 2,278 | | $ | — | | $ | 1,846 |
Deferred charges and other assets, net | Deferred charges and other assets, net | 1,204 | | — | | 1,329 | | — | Deferred charges and other assets, net | 1,114 | | — | | 1,284 | | — |
Total ROU assets, net | Total ROU assets, net | $ | 1,204 | | $ | 1,622 | | $ | 1,329 | | $ | 790 | Total ROU assets, net | $ | 1,114 | | $ | 2,278 | | $ | 1,284 | | $ | 1,846 |
| Current lease liabilities reflected in the following balance sheet line items: | Current lease liabilities reflected in the following balance sheet line items: | | Current lease liabilities reflected in the following balance sheet line items: | |
Current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | Current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | — | | $ | 120 | | $ | — | | $ | 41 | Current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | — | | $ | 248 | | $ | — | | $ | 154 |
Accrued expenses | Accrued expenses | 285 | | — | | 331 | | — | Accrued expenses | 311 | | — | | 315 | | — |
Noncurrent lease liabilities reflected in the following balance sheet line items: | Noncurrent lease liabilities reflected in the following balance sheet line items: | | Noncurrent lease liabilities reflected in the following balance sheet line items: | |
Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | — | | 1,544 | | — | | 750 | Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | — | | 2,146 | | — | | 1,766 |
Other long-term liabilities | Other long-term liabilities | 885 | | — | | 959 | | — | Other long-term liabilities | 776 | | — | | 940 | | — |
Total lease liabilities | Total lease liabilities | $ | 1,170 | | $ | 1,664 | | $ | 1,290 | | $ | 791 | Total lease liabilities | $ | 1,087 | | $ | 2,394 | | $ | 1,255 | | $ | 1,920 |
| Other supplemental information | Other supplemental information | | Other supplemental information | |
Weighted-average remaining lease term | Weighted-average remaining lease term | 7.6 years | | 14.5 years | | 7.7 years | | 19.7 years | Weighted-average remaining lease term | 7.5 years | | 14.6 years | | 7.1 years | | 14.3 years |
Weighted-average discount rate | Weighted-average discount rate | 4.7 | % | | 4.1 | % | | 4.9 | % | | 5.2 | % | Weighted-average discount rate | 5.2 | % | | 4.6 | % | | 4.2 | % | | 4.0 | % |
Supplemental cash flow information related to our operating and finance leases is presented in Note 19.17.
DGD Port Arthur Plant Finance Lease
In connection with the construction of the DGD plant located next to our Port Arthur Refinery (the DGD Port Arthur Plant), DGD entered into an agreement with a third party to utilize certain rail facilities, truck rack facilities, and tanks for the transportation and storage of feedstocks and renewable diesel. The agreement commenced in the fourth quarter of 2022, upon completion of the DGD Port Arthur Plant, and has an initial term of 20 years with two automatic five-year renewal periods. In the fourth quarter of 2022, DGD recognized a finance lease ROU asset and related liability of approximately $500 million in connection with this agreement.
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MVP Terminal Finance LeaseMaturity Analyses
We have a 50 percent membership interest in MVP Terminalling, LLC (MVP), an unconsolidated joint venture formed in September 2017 with a subsidiary of Magellan Midstream Partners LP (Magellan). MVP owns and operates a marine terminal (the MVP Terminal) located adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas. Concurrent with the formation of MVP, we entered into a terminaling agreement with MVP to utilize the MVP Terminal upon completion of construction of the terminal, whichoccurredin the first quarter of 2020. During the three months ended March 31, 2020, we recognized a finance lease ROU asset and related liability of approximately $1.4 billion in connection with this agreement. The lease term included the initial term of 12 years and renewal option periods. In the fourth quarter of 2020, we evaluated our strategy with regard to certain of our logistics investments, including MVP. As a result of this review, we formally notified MVP that we do not intend to renew the terminaling agreement after its initial noncancelable term. Consequently, we reassessed the lease term and remeasured the finance lease liability based on the shortened lease term. We derecognized approximately $600 million of the finance lease liability and related ROU asset, which are noncash financing and investing activities, respectively. As of December 31, 2020,2022, the total lease liability was approximately $800 million.
Maturity Analysis
The remaining minimum lease payments due under our long-term leases were as follows (in millions):
| | | December 31, 2020 | | December 31, 2019 | | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases | |
| | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases | | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases | |
2020 | n/a | | n/a | | $ | 376 | | | $ | 88 | | |
2021 | $ | 324 | | | $ | 187 | | | 250 | | | 86 | | |
2022 | 231 | | | 182 | | | 194 | | | 87 | | |
2023 | 2023 | 194 | | | 187 | | | 160 | | | 91 | | 2023 | $ | 345 | | | $ | 350 | | |
2024 | 2024 | 155 | | | 178 | | | 125 | | | 82 | | 2024 | 240 | | | 287 | | |
2025 | 2025 | 107 | | | 178 | | | n/a | | n/a | 2025 | 163 | | | 278 | | |
2026 | | 2026 | 125 | | | 254 | | |
2027 | | 2027 | 81 | | | 224 | | |
Thereafter | Thereafter | 435 | | | 1,498 | | | 498 | | | 1,011 | | Thereafter | 434 | | | 2,069 | | |
Total undiscounted lease payments | Total undiscounted lease payments | 1,446 | | | 2,410 | | | 1,603 | | | 1,445 | | Total undiscounted lease payments | 1,388 | | | 3,462 | | |
Less: Amount associated with discounting | Less: Amount associated with discounting | 276 | | | 746 | | | 313 | | | 654 | | Less: Amount associated with discounting | 301 | | | 1,068 | | |
Total lease liabilities | Total lease liabilities | $ | 1,170 | | | $ | 1,664 | | | $ | 1,290 | | | $ | 791 | | Total lease liabilities | $ | 1,087 | | | $ | 2,394 | | |
5. PROPERTY, PLANT, AND EQUIPMENT
Summary by Major Class
Major classes of property, plant, and equipment, including assets held under finance leases, consisted of the following (in millions):
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| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Land | $ | 499 | | | $ | 494 | |
Crude oil processing facilities | 32,699 | | | 32,744 | |
Transportation and terminaling facilities | 5,900 | | | 5,747 | |
Waste and renewable feedstocks processing facilities | 3,215 | | | 1,826 | |
Corn processing facilities | 1,052 | | | 1,216 | |
Administrative buildings | 1,095 | | | 1,055 | |
Finance lease ROU assets (see Note 4) | 2,906 | | | 2,293 | |
Other | 1,886 | | | 1,835 | |
Construction in progress | 1,324 | | | 1,862 | |
Property, plant, and equipment, at cost | 50,576 | | | 49,072 | |
Accumulated depreciation | (19,598) | | | (18,225) | |
Property, plant, and equipment, net | $ | 30,978 | | | $ | 30,847 | |
Depreciation expense for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020 was $1.7 billion, $1.7 billion, and $1.6 billion, respectively.
Asset Impairment
Our ethanol plant located in Lakota, Iowa (Lakota ethanol plant) is currently configured to produce a higher-grade ethanol product, as opposed to fuel-grade ethanol, suitable for hand sanitizer blending or industrial purposes that has a higher market value than fuel-grade ethanol. During 2022, demand for
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higher-grade ethanol declined and had a negative impact on the profitability of the plant. As a result, we tested the recoverability of the carrying value of the Lakota ethanol plant and concluded that it was impaired. Therefore, we reduced the carrying value of the plant to its estimated fair value and recognized an asset impairment loss of $61 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. See Note 18 for disclosure related to the method used to determine fair value.
Sale of Ethanol Plant
In June 2022, we sold our ethanol plant in Jefferson, Wisconsin (Jefferson ethanol plant) for $32 million, which resulted in a gain of $23 million that is included in depreciation and amortization expense for the year ended December 31, 2022.
Changes in Useful Lives
The Jefferson ethanol plant was temporarily idled in 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in response to the decreased demand for ethanol resulting from the effects of the pandemic on our business, and we had previously evaluated this plant for potential impairment assuming that operations would resume. However, we completed an evaluation of the plant during the third quarter of 2021 and concluded that it was no longer a strategic asset for our ethanol business. The plant’s operations permanently ceased at that time and we reduced its estimated useful life, which reduced its net book value to estimated salvage value. The additional depreciation expense of $48 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 resulting from this change did not have a material impact on our results of operations nor was there a material impact to our financial position.
Our ethanol plant in Riga, Michigan was temporarily idled in 2019 due to corn quality issues with the local third-party corn feedstock supply. Although we expected operations to resume after an improved corn harvest, we completed an evaluation of this plant during the third quarter of 2020 and concluded that it was no longer a strategic asset for our ethanol business. The plant’s operations permanently ceased at that time and we reduced its estimated useful life, which reduced its net book value to estimated salvage value. The additional depreciation expense of $30 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 resulting from this change did not have a material impact on our results of operations nor was there a material impact to our financial position.
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6. DEFERRED CHARGES AND OTHER ASSETS
“Deferred charges and other assets, net” consisted of the following (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Deferred turnaround and catalyst costs, net | $ | 2,139 | | | $ | 1,853 | |
Operating lease ROU assets, net (see Note 4) | 1,114 | | | 1,284 | |
Investments in nonconsolidated joint ventures | 724 | | | 734 | |
Purchased compliance credits | 543 | | | 222 | |
Goodwill | 260 | | | 260 | |
Intangible assets, net | 202 | | | 218 | |
Income taxes receivable | 26 | | | 586 | |
Other | 863 | | | 719 | |
Deferred charges and other assets, net | $ | 5,871 | | | $ | 5,876 | |
Amortization expense for deferred turnaround and catalyst costs and intangible assets was $745 million, $695 million, and $748 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
The entire balance of goodwill is related to our Refining segment. See Note 16 for information on our reportable segments.
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7. PROPERTY, PLANT,ACCRUED EXPENSES AND EQUIPMENTOTHER LONG-TERM LIABILITIES
Major classes of property, plant,Accrued expenses and equipment, including assets held under finance leases,other long-term liabilities consisted of the following (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 |
Land | $ | 485 | | | $ | 476 | |
Crude oil processing facilities | 32,246 | | | 31,419 | |
Transportation and terminaling facilities | 5,290 | | | 5,179 | |
Rendered and recycled materials processing facilities | 631 | | | 628 | |
Corn processing facilities | 1,212 | | | 1,201 | |
Administrative buildings | 1,038 | | | 1,015 | |
Finance lease ROU assets (see Note 6) | 1,902 | | | 944 | |
Other | 1,764 | | | 1,701 | |
Construction in progress | 2,399 | | | 1,731 | |
Property, plant, and equipment, at cost | 46,967 | | | 44,294 | |
Accumulated depreciation | (16,578) | | | (15,030) | |
Property, plant, and equipment, net | $ | 30,389 | | | $ | 29,264 | |
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| Accrued Expenses | | Other Long-Term Liabilities |
| December 31, | | December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Operating lease liabilities (see Note 4) | $ | 311 | | | $ | 315 | | | $ | 776 | | | $ | 940 | |
Liability for unrecognized tax benefits (see Note 14) | — | | | — | | | 239 | | | 863 | |
Defined benefit plan liabilities (see Note 12) | 35 | | | 41 | | | 448 | | | 601 | |
Repatriation tax liability (see Note 14) (a) | — | | | — | | | 301 | | | 367 | |
Environmental liabilities | 21 | | | 35 | | | 296 | | | 269 | |
Wage and other employee-related liabilities | 388 | | | 349 | | | 87 | | | 133 | |
Accrued interest expense | 67 | | | 88 | | | — | | | — | |
Contract liabilities from contracts with customers (see Note 16) | 129 | | | 78 | | | — | | | — | |
Blending program obligations (see Note 18) | 189 | | | 268 | | | — | | | — | |
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Other accrued liabilities | 75 | | | 79 | | | 163 | | | 231 | |
Accrued expenses and other long-term liabilities | $ | 1,215 | | | $ | 1,253 | | | $ | 2,310 | | | $ | 3,404 | |
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(a)
The current portion of repatriation tax liability is included in income taxes payable. As described in Note 6, our finance lease ROU assets arise from leasing arrangements forof December 31, 2022, the right to use various classescurrent portion of underlying assets including (i) pipelines, terminals, and tanks, (ii) marine and rail transportation, and (iii) feedstock processing equipment. Accumulated amortizationrepatriation tax liability was $100 million. There was no current portion of finance lease ROU assets was $280 million and $155 millionrepatriation tax liability as of December 31, 2021, as it was deemed paid in connection with the additional tax net operating loss (NOL) carryback on the superseding 2020 and 2019, respectively.federal income tax return filed in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Depreciation expense for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018 was $1.6 billion, $1.5 billion, and $1.4 billion, respectively.
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8. DEFERRED CHARGES AND OTHER ASSETS
“Deferred charges and other assets, net” consisted of the following (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 |
Deferred turnaround and catalyst costs, net | $ | 1,703 | | | $ | 1,778 | |
Operating lease ROU assets, net (see Note 6) | 1,204 | | | 1,329 | |
Investments in unconsolidated joint ventures | 972 | | | 942 | |
Income taxes receivable | 589 | | | 525 | |
Intangible assets, net | 248 | | | 283 | |
Goodwill | 260 | | | 260 | |
Other | 565 | | | 514 | |
Deferred charges and other assets, net | $ | 5,541 | | | $ | 5,631 | |
Amortization expense for deferred turnaround and catalyst costs and intangible assets was $748 million, $759 million, and $668 million for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018, respectively.
9. ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER LONG-TERM LIABILITIES
Accrued expenses and other long-term liabilities consisted of the following (in millions):
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| Accrued Expenses | | Other Long-Term Liabilities |
| December 31, | | December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | 2020 | | 2019 |
Operating lease liabilities (see Note 6) | $ | 285 | | | $ | 331 | | | $ | 885 | | | $ | 959 | |
Liability for unrecognized tax benefits (see Note 16) | — | | | — | | | 859 | | | 954 | |
Defined benefit plan liabilities (see Note 14) | 45 | | | 37 | | | 878 | | | 834 | |
Repatriation tax liability (see Note 16) (a) | — | | | — | | | 422 | | | 508 | |
Environmental liabilities | 59 | | | 27 | | | 272 | | | 319 | |
Wage and other employee-related liabilities | 210 | | | 292 | | | 124 | | | 121 | |
Accrued interest expense | 99 | | | 83 | | | — | | | — | |
Contract liabilities from contracts with customers (see Note 18) | 56 | | | 55 | | | — | | | — | |
Environmental credit obligations (see Note 20) | 159 | | | 31 | | | — | | | — | |
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Other accrued liabilities | 81 | | | 93 | | | 180 | | | 192 | |
Accrued expenses and other long-term liabilities | $ | 994 | | | $ | 949 | | | $ | 3,620 | | | $ | 3,887 | |
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(a)The current portion of repatriation tax liability is included in income taxes payable and was $54 million as of December 31, 2020 and 2019.
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10. DEBT AND FINANCE LEASE OBLIGATIONS
Debt, at stated values, and finance lease obligations consisted of the following (in millions):
| | | Final Maturity | | December 31, | | Final Maturity | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Credit facilities: | Credit facilities: | | | | | | Credit facilities: | | | | | |
Valero Revolver | Valero Revolver | 2024 | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | Valero Revolver | 2027 | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
364-day Revolving Credit Facility | 2021 | | 0 | | | 0 | | |
Canadian Revolver | | Canadian Revolver | 2023 | | — | | | — | |
Accounts Receivable Sales Facility | | Accounts Receivable Sales Facility | 2023 | | — | | | — | |
| DGD Revolver | | DGD Revolver | 2024 | | 100 | | | 100 | |
DGD Loan Agreement | | DGD Loan Agreement | 2023 | | 25 | | | 25 | |
IEnova Revolver | IEnova Revolver | 2028 | | 598 | | | 348 | | IEnova Revolver | 2028 | | 717 | | | 679 | |
Canadian Revolver | 2021 | | 0 | | | 0 | | |
Accounts receivable sales facility | 2021 | | 0 | | | 100 | | |
Public debt: | Public debt: | | Public debt: | |
Valero Senior Notes | Valero Senior Notes | | Valero Senior Notes | |
1.200% | | 1.200% | 2024 | | 167 | | | 169 | |
2.850% | | 2.850% | 2025 | | 251 | | | 1,050 | |
3.65% | | 3.65% | 2025 | | 189 | | | 324 | |
3.400% | | 3.400% | 2026 | | 426 | | | 1,250 | |
2.150% | | 2.150% | 2027 | | 578 | | | 600 | |
4.350% | | 4.350% | 2028 | | 606 | | | 750 | |
4.000% | | 4.000% | 2029 | | 439 | | | 1,000 | |
8.75% | | 8.75% | 2030 | | 200 | | | 200 | |
2.800% | | 2.800% | 2031 | | 472 | | | 500 | |
7.5% | | 7.5% | 2032 | | 733 | | | 750 | |
6.625% | 6.625% | 2037 | | 1,500 | | | 1,500 | | 6.625% | 2037 | | 1,442 | | | 1,500 | |
3.4% | 2026 | | 1,250 | | | 1,250 | | |
2.85% | 2025 | | 1,050 | | | 0 | | |
4.0% | 2029 | | 1,000 | | | 1,000 | | |
1.2% | 2024 | | 925 | | | 0 | | |
2.7% | 2023 | | 850 | | | 0 | | |
4.35% | 2028 | | 750 | | | 750 | | |
7.5% | 2032 | | 750 | | | 750 | | |
4.9% | 2045 | | 650 | | | 650 | | |
3.65% | 2025 | | 600 | | | 600 | | |
2.15% | 2027 | | 600 | | | 0 | | |
Floating Rate Notes at 1.3665% | 2023 | | 575 | | | 0 | | |
10.5% | 2039 | | 250 | | | 250 | | |
8.75% | 2030 | | 200 | | | 200 | | |
6.75% | | 6.75% | 2037 | | 24 | | | 24 | |
10.500% | | 10.500% | 2039 | | 113 | | | 113 | |
4.90% | | 4.90% | 2045 | | 626 | | | 650 | |
3.650% | | 3.650% | 2051 | | 855 | | | 950 | |
4.000% | | 4.000% | 2052 | | 553 | | | — | |
7.45% | 7.45% | 2097 | | 100 | | | 100 | | 7.45% | 2097 | | 70 | | | 100 | |
6.75% | 2037 | | 24 | | | 24 | | |
| VLP Senior Notes | VLP Senior Notes | | VLP Senior Notes | |
4.375% | 4.375% | 2026 | | 500 | | | 500 | | 4.375% | 2026 | | 146 | | | 376 | |
4.5% | 2028 | | 500 | | | 500 | | |
Gulf Opportunity Zone Revenue Bonds, Series 2010, 4.0% | 2040 | | 300 | | | 300 | | |
4.500% | | 4.500% | 2028 | | 474 | | | 500 | |
Debenture, 7.65% | Debenture, 7.65% | 2026 | | 100 | | | 100 | | Debenture, 7.65% | 2026 | | 100 | | | 100 | |
Gulf Opportunity Zone Revenue Bonds, Series 2010, 4.00% | | Gulf Opportunity Zone Revenue Bonds, Series 2010, 4.00% | 2040 | | — | | | 300 | |
Other debt | Other debt | Various | | 31 | | | 47 | | Other debt | 2023 | | 19 | | | 26 | |
Net unamortized debt issuance costs and other | Net unamortized debt issuance costs and other | | (90) | | | (88) | | Net unamortized debt issuance costs and other | | (84) | | | (86) | |
Total debt | Total debt | | 13,013 | | | 8,881 | | Total debt | | 9,241 | | | 11,950 | |
Finance lease obligations (see Note 6) | | 1,664 | | | 791 | | |
Finance lease obligations (see Note 4) | | Finance lease obligations (see Note 4) | | 2,394 | | | 1,920 | |
Total debt and finance lease obligations | Total debt and finance lease obligations | | 14,677 | | | 9,672 | | Total debt and finance lease obligations | | 11,635 | | | 13,870 | |
Less: Current portion | Less: Current portion | | 723 | | | 494 | | Less: Current portion | | 1,109 | | | 1,264 | |
Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | | $ | 13,954 | | | $ | 9,178 | | Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | | $ | 10,526 | | | $ | 12,606 | |
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Credit Facilities
Valero Revolver
We have aIn November 2022, we amended our revolving credit facility (the Valero Revolver) with, which has a borrowing capacity of $4 billion, that matures into extend the maturity date from March 2024.2024 to November 2027 and to transition the benchmark reference interest rate previously based on the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to a secured overnight financing rate (SOFR). We have the option to increase the aggregate commitments under the Valero Revolver to $5.5 billion, subject to certain conditions. The Valero Revolver also provides for the issuance of letters of credit of up to $2.4 billion.
OutstandingEffective November 2022, outstanding borrowings under the Valero Revolver bear interest, at our option, at either (i) the adjusted LIBO rate (asAdjusted Term SOFR or (ii) the Alternate Base Rate (each of these rates is defined in the Valero Revolver) for the applicable interest period in effect from time to time, plus the applicable margin or (ii) the alternate base rate (as defined in the Valero Revolver) plus the applicable margin.margins. The Valero Revolver also requires payments for customary fees, including facility fees, letter of credit participation fees, and administrative agent fees. The interest rate and facility fees under the Valero Revolver are subject to adjustment based upon the credit ratings assigned to our senior unsecured debt.
We had 0 borrowings or repayments under the Valero Revolver during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018.
364-day Revolving Credit Facility
In April 2020, we entered into an $875 million 364-Day Credit Agreement (the 364-day Revolving Credit Facility) with several lenders. This facility provides for a revolving credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $875 million and matures 364 days from April 13, 2020.
Borrowings under this facility bear interest at the base rate or the eurodollar rate (at our election) plus an applicable rate ranging from 0.150 percent to 1.700 percent, based upon the elected interest rate type and our debt ratings from certain rating agencies. The facility requires us to pay a commitment fee accruing on the daily amount of used and unused commitments of the lenders, which is also based upon our debt ratings mentioned above. The interest and commitment fees under this facility are payable quarterly. The facility also requires us to pay a customary agency fee to the administrative agent. The facility contains various customary covenants and events of default.
IEnova Revolver
Central Mexico Terminals (as described in Note 13) has a combined unsecured revolving credit facility (IEnova Revolver) with IEnova (defined in Note 13) that matures in February 2028. In November 2019, the borrowing capacity under the IEnova Revolver was increased from $340 million to $491 million, and during the year ended December 31, 2020, it was increased to $660 million. IEnova may terminate this revolver at any time and demand repayment of all outstanding amounts; therefore, all outstanding borrowings are reflected in current portion of debt. The IEnova Revolver is available only to the operations of Central Mexico Terminals, and the creditors of Central Mexico Terminals do not have recourse against us.
Outstanding borrowings under this revolver bear interest at the three-month LIBO rate for the applicable interest period in effect from time to time plus the applicable margin. The interest rate under this revolver is subject to adjustment, with agreement by both parties, based upon changes in market conditions. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, the variable rate was 3.870 percent and 5.749 percent, respectively.
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During the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Central Mexico Terminals borrowed $250 million,$239 million, and $109 million, respectively, and had 0 repayments under this revolver.
Canadian Revolver
In November 2020,2022, one of our Canadian subsidiaries amended its committed revolving credit facility (the Canadian Revolver) of C$150 million to extend the maturity date from November 20202022 to November 2021.2023. Outstanding borrowings under the Canadian Revolver bear interest at the adjusted term SOFR or applicable market rates as allowed under the terms of the agreement, plus applicable margins. The Canadian Revolver also provides for the issuance of letters of credit.
We had 0 borrowings or repayments The interest rates and fees under this revolver during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018.Canadian Revolver are subject to adjustment based upon the credit ratings assigned to Valero’s senior unsecured debt.
Accounts Receivable Sales Facility
We have an accounts receivable sales facility with a group of third-party entities and financial institutions to sell eligible trade receivables on a revolving basis. In July 2020,2022, we extended the maturity date of this facility to July 2021 and decreased the facility amount from $1.3 billion to $1.0 billion.2023. Under this program, one of our marketing subsidiaries (Valero Marketing) sells eligible receivables, without recourse, to another of our subsidiaries (Valero Capital), whereupon the receivables are no longer owned by Valero Marketing. Valero Capital, in turn, sells an undivided percentage ownership interest in the eligible receivables, without recourse, to the third-party entities and financial institutions. To the extent that Valero Capital retains an ownership interest in the receivables it has purchased from Valero Marketing, such interest is included in our financial statements solely as a result of the consolidation of the financial statements of Valero Capital with those of Valero Energy Corporation; the receivables are not available to satisfy the claims of the creditors of Valero Marketing or Valero Energy Corporation.
As of December 31, 20202022 and 2019, $1.42021, $3.0 billion and $2.2$2.8 billion, respectively, of our accounts receivable composed the designated pool of accounts receivable included in the program. All amounts outstanding under the accounts receivable sales facility are reflected as debt on our balance sheets and proceeds and repayments are reflected as cash flows from financing activities onactivities. Outstanding borrowings under the statementsfacility bear interest, at either (i) an adjusted daily simple SOFR or (ii) an alternate base rate as allowed under the terms of cash flows.
During the year ended December 31, 2020, we sold $300 million of eligible receivables under our accounts receivable sales facility and repaid $400 million. During the year ended December 31, 2019, we sold $900 million of eligible receivables under our accounts receivable sales facility and repaid $900 million. The variable interest rate on the borrowings outstanding under this facility, as of December 31, 2019 was 2.3866 percent. During the year ended December 31, 2018, we had 0 proceeds from or repaymentsplus applicable margins. The interest rates under the accounts receivable sales facility.
VLP Revolver
As of December 31, 2018, VLP had a $750 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility (the VLP Revolver) with a group of lenders that was scheduled to mature in November 2020. However, on January 10, 2019, in connection with the completion of the Merger Transaction as described in Note 3, the VLP Revolver was terminated.
During the year ended December 31, 2018, VLP repaid the outstanding balance of $410 million on the VLP Revolver using proceeds from its public offering of $500 million 4.5 percent Senior Notes as described in “Public Debt” below.program are subject
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to adjustment based upon the credit ratings assigned to our senior unsecured debt. The program also requires payments for customary fees, including facility fees.
364-Day Revolving Credit Facility
In April 2020, we entered into an $875 million 364-Day Credit Agreement (the 364-Day Revolving Credit Facility) with several lenders. This facility provided for a revolving credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $875 million. No borrowings were made under this facility prior to its maturity on April 12, 2021 and the facility was not renewed.
DGD Revolver
In March 2021, DGD, as described in Note 11, entered into a $400 million unsecured revolving credit facility (the DGD Revolver) with a syndicate of financial institutions that matures in March 2024. DGD has the option to increase the aggregate commitments under the DGD Revolver to $550 million, subject to certain restrictions. Initially, the DGD Revolver also provided for the issuance of letters of credit of up to $10 million. In September 2021, the DGD Revolver was amended to increase the letter of credit sublimit from $10 million to $50 million and to limit DGD’s indebtedness arising under other letters of credit that DGD may obtain up to $25 million at any one time outstanding. This restriction does not impact Valero’s letter of credit facilities. In November 2022, the DGD Revolver was amended to increase the letter of credit sublimit from $50 million to $150 million. The DGD Revolver is only available to fund the operations of DGD. DGD’s lenders do not have recourse against us. As of December 31, 2022, all outstanding borrowings under this revolver are reflected in current portion of debt as payment is expected to occur in 2023.
Outstanding borrowings under the DGD Revolver generally bear interest, at DGD’s option, at either (i) an alternate base rate or (ii) an adjusted LIBOR as allowed under the terms of the agreement for the applicable interest period in effect from time to time, plus the applicable margins. As of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the variable interest rate on the DGD Revolver was 5.880 percent and 1.860 percent, respectively. The DGD Revolver also requires payments for customary fees, including unused commitment fees, letter of credit fees, and administrative agent fees.
DGD Loan Agreement
DGD has a $50 million unsecured revolving loan agreement (the DGD Loan Agreement) with its members (Darling Ingredients Inc. (Darling) and us). In March 2022, the maturity date of this facility was extended to April 2023. Each member has committed $25 million, resulting in aggregate commitments of $50 million. The DGD Loan Agreement is only available to fund the operations of DGD. Any outstanding borrowings under this revolver represent loans made by the noncontrolling member as any transactions between DGD and us under this revolver are eliminated in consolidation.
Outstanding borrowings under the DGD Loan Agreement bear interest at the LIBOR for the applicable interest period in effect from time to time plus the applicable margin. As of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the variable interest rate on the DGD Loan Agreement was 6.672 percent and 2.603 percent, respectively. Principal and accrued interest are due on the last day of the calendar month unless DGD provides at least two days prior written notice of their election to extend repayment to the next calendar month end.
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IEnova Revolver
Central Mexico Terminals, as described in Note 11, has a combined unsecured revolving credit facility (IEnova Revolver) with IEnova (defined in Note 11) that matures in February 2028. In 2020, the borrowing capacity under the IEnova Revolver was increased from $491 million to $660 million, and during the year ended December 31, 2021, it was increased to $830 million. IEnova may terminate this revolver at any time and demand repayment of all outstanding amounts; therefore, all outstanding borrowings are reflected in current portion of debt. The IEnova Revolver is only available to the operations of Central Mexico Terminals, and the creditors of Central Mexico Terminals do not have recourse against us.
Outstanding borrowings under the IEnova Revolver bear interest at the three-month LIBOR for the applicable interest period in effect from time to time plus the applicable margin. The interest rate under this revolver is subject to adjustment, with agreement by both parties, based upon changes in market conditions. As of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the variable interest rate was 7.393 percent and 3.781 percent, respectively.
Summary of Credit Facilities
We had outstanding borrowings, letters of credit issued, and availability under our credit facilities as follows (amounts in millions and currency in U.S. dollars, except as noted):
| | | December 31, 2020 | | December 31, 2022 |
| | Facility Amount | | Maturity Date | | Outstanding Borrowings | | Letters of Credit Issued (a) | | Availability | | Facility Amount | | Maturity Date | | Outstanding Borrowings | | Letters of Credit Issued (a) | | Availability |
| Committed facilities: | Committed facilities: | | | | | | | | | | | Committed facilities: | | | | | | | | | | |
Valero Revolver | Valero Revolver | | $ | 4,000 | | | March 2024 | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 34 | | | $ | 3,966 | | Valero Revolver | | $ | 4,000 | | | November 2027 | | $ | — | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 3,994 | |
364-day Revolving Credit Facility | | $ | 875 | | | April 2021 | | $ | 0 | | | n/a | | $ | 875 | | |
Canadian Revolver | Canadian Revolver | | C$ | 150 | | | November 2021 | | C$ | 0 | | | C$ | 5 | | | C$ | 145 | | Canadian Revolver | | C$ | 150 | | | November 2023 | | C$ | — | | | C$ | 5 | | | C$ | 145 | |
Accounts receivable sales facility (b) | | $ | 1,000 | | | July 2021 | | $ | 0 | | | n/a | | $ | 885 | | |
Letter of credit facility (c) | | $ | 50 | | | November 2021 | | n/a | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 50 | | |
Committed facility of VIE (d): | | |
Accounts receivable sales facility | | Accounts receivable sales facility | | $ | 1,300 | | | July 2023 | | $ | — | | | n/a | | $ | 1,300 | |
| Committed facilities of VIEs (b): | | Committed facilities of VIEs (b): | |
DGD Revolver | | DGD Revolver | | $ | 400 | | | March 2024 | | $ | 100 | | | $ | 117 | | | $ | 183 | |
DGD Loan Agreement (c) | | DGD Loan Agreement (c) | | $ | 25 | | | April 2023 | | $ | 25 | | | n/a | | $ | — | |
IEnova Revolver | IEnova Revolver | | $ | 660 | | | February 2028 | | $ | 598 | | | n/a | | $ | 62 | | IEnova Revolver | | $ | 830 | | | February 2028 | | $ | 717 | | | n/a | | $ | 113 | |
Uncommitted facilities: | Uncommitted facilities: | | Uncommitted facilities: | |
Letter of credit facilities | Letter of credit facilities | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a | | $ | 150 | | | n/a | Letter of credit facilities | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a | | $ | 1,523 | | | n/a |
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(a)Letters of credit issued as of December 31, 20202022 expire at various times in 20212023 through 2023.2024.
(b)The available borrowing capacity was lower than the facility amount due to low product prices impacting the amount of eligible receivables.
(c)We extended the maturity dateCreditors of the letter of credit facility from November 2020 to November 2021.
(d)Creditors of our VIEVIEs do not have recourse against us.
(c)The amounts shown for this facility represent the facility amount available from, and borrowings outstanding to, the noncontrolling member as any transactions between DGD and us under this facility are eliminated in consolidation.
We are charged letter of credit issuance fees under our various uncommitted short-term bank credit facilities. These uncommitted credit facilities have no commitment fees or compensating balance requirements.
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Activity under our credit facilities was as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Borrowings: | | | | | |
Accounts receivable sales facility | $ | 1,600 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 300 | |
DGD Revolver | 759 | | | 276 | | | — | |
DGD Loan Agreement | 50 | | | 25 | | | — | |
IEnova Revolver | 105 | | | 81 | | | 250 | |
Repayments: | | | | | |
Accounts receivable sales facility | (1,600) | | | — | | | (400) | |
DGD Revolver | (759) | | | (176) | | | — | |
DGD Loan Agreement | (50) | | | — | | | — | |
IEnova Revolver | (67) | | | — | | | — | |
Public Debt
During the year ended December 31, 2022, the following activity occurred:
•In November and December 2022, we used cash on hand to purchase and retire the following notes (in millions):
| | | | | | | | |
Debt Purchased and Retired | | Principal Amount |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
2.150% Senior Notes due 2027 | | $ | 22 | |
4.500% VLP Senior Notes due 2028 | | 26 | |
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2.800% Senior Notes due 2031 | | 28 | |
| | |
6.625% Senior Notes due 2037 | | 58 | |
4.90% Senior Notes due 2045 | | 24 | |
3.650% Senior Notes due 2051 | | 95 | |
4.000% Senior Notes due 2052 | | 97 | |
7.45% Senior Notes due 2097 | | 30 | |
Various other Valero Senior Notes | | 62 | |
Total | | $ | 442 | |
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•In September 2022, we used cash on hand to purchase and retire the following notes in connection with cash tender offers that we publicly announced in August 2022 and completed in September 2022 (in millions):
| | | | | | | | |
Debt Purchased and Retired | | Principal Amount |
3.65% Senior Notes due 2025 | | $ | 48 | |
2.850% Senior Notes due 2025 | | 291 | |
4.375% VLP Senior Notes due 2026 | | 62 | |
3.400% Senior Notes due 2026 | | 166 | |
4.350% Senior Notes due 2028 | | 131 | |
4.000% Senior Notes due 2029 | | 552 | |
Total | | $ | 1,250 | |
•In June 2022, we reduced our debt through the acquisition of the $300 million of 4.00 percent Gulf Opportunity Zone Revenue Bonds Series 2010 that are due December 1, 2040, but were subject to mandatory tender on June 1, 2022. We have the option to effectuate a remarketing of these bonds.
•In February 2022, we issued $650 million of 4.000 percent Senior Notes due June 1, 2052. Proceeds from this debt issuance totaled $639 million before deducting the underwriting discount and other debt issuance costs. The proceeds and cash on hand were used to purchase and retire the following notes in connection with cash tender offers that we publicly announced and completed in February 2022 (in millions):
| | | | | | | | |
Debt Purchased and Retired | | Principal Amount |
3.65% Senior Notes due 2025 | | $ | 72 | |
2.850% Senior Notes due 2025 | | 507 | |
4.375% VLP Senior Notes due 2026 | | 168 | |
3.400% Senior Notes due 2026 | | 653 | |
Total | | $ | 1,400 | |
During the year ended December 31, 2021, the following activity occurred:
•In November 2021, we issued $500 million of 2.800 percent Senior Notes due December 1, 2031 and $950 million of 3.650 percent Senior Notes due December 1, 2051. Proceeds from these debt issuances totaled $1.446 billion before deducting the underwriting discounts and other debt issuance costs. These proceeds and cash on hand were used to purchase and retire or redeem the
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following notes in connection with cash tender offers that we publicly announced in November 2021 and completed in December 2021 (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Debt Purchased and Retired or Redeemed | | Principal Amount | | | | |
2.700% Senior Notes due 2023 | | $ | 850 | | | | | |
1.200% Senior Notes due 2024 | | 756 | | | | | |
3.65% Senior Notes due 2025 | | 276 | | | | | |
4.375% VLP Senior Notes due 2026 | | 124 | | | | | |
10.500% Senior Notes due 2039 | | 137 | | | | | |
Total | | $ | 2,143 | | | | | |
In connection with the early debt redemption and retirement activity described above, we recognized a charge of $193 million in “other income, net” comprised of $179 million of premiums paid, $10 million of unamortized debt discounts and deferred debt costs, and $4 million of bank fees.
•In September 2021, we redeemed our Floating Rate Senior Notes due September 15, 2023 (the Floating Rate Notes) for $575 million.
During the year ended December 31, 2020, the following activity occurred:
•In September 2020, we issued the following senior notes:
◦$575 million ofthe Floating Rate Senior Notes, due September 15, 2023 (the Floating Rate Notes), which bearbore interest at a rate of three-month London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)LIBOR plus 1.150 percent per annum, subject to certain adjustments set forth in the terms of the Floating Rate Notes;
◦$925 million of 1.200 percent Senior Notes due March 15, 2024;
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◦$400 million of 2.850 percent Senior Notes due April 15, 2025 that constitute an additional issuance of our 2.850 percent Senior Notes due April 15, 2025 of which $650 million aggregate principal amount wasthat were issued in April 2020;2020 (see below); and
◦$600 million of 2.150 percent Senior Notes due September 15, 2027.
•In April 2020, we issued $850 million of 2.700 percent Senior Notes due April 15, 2023 and $650 million of 2.850 percent Senior Notes due April 15, 2025.
Proceeds from the April and September 2020 debt issuances totaled $4.020 billion before deducting the underwriting discountdiscounts and other debt issuance costs.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, the following activity occurred:
•We issued $1 billion of 4.00 percent Senior Notes due April 1, 2029. Proceeds from this debt issuance totaled $992 million before deducting the underwriting discount and other debt issuance costs. The proceeds were used to redeem our 6.125 percent Senior Notes due February 1, 2020 for $871 million, or 102.48 percent of stated value, which includes an early redemption fee of $21 million that is reflected in “other income, net” in our statement of income for the year ended December 31, 2019.
•In connection with the completion of the Merger Transaction as described in Note 3, Valero Energy Corporation, the parent company, entered into a guarantee agreement to fully and unconditionally guarantee the prompt payment, when due, of the following debt issued by VLP, one of its wholly owned subsidiaries, that was outstanding upon completion of the Merger Transaction:
◦$500 million of 4.375 percent Senior Notes due December 15, 2026; and
◦$500 million of 4.5 percent Senior Notes due March 15, 2028.
Effective March 31, 2020, we early applied the U.S. SEC’s Final Rule Release No. 33-10762, Financial Disclosures About Guarantors and Issuers of Guaranteed Securities and Affiliates Whose Securities Collateralize a Registrant’s Securities. This rule allows us to cease providing the previously required condensed consolidating financial information in our periodic reports while the senior notes issued by VLP noted above are outstanding, as VLP’s reporting obligation was suspended on January 22, 2019 in connection with the completion of the Merger Transaction.
During the year ended December 31, 2018, the following activity occurred:
•We issued $750 million of 4.35 percent Senior Notes due June 1, 2028. Proceeds from this debt issuance totaled $749 million before deducting the underwriting discount and other debt issuance costs. The proceeds were used to redeem our 9.375 percent Senior Notes due March 15, 2019 for $787 million, or 104.9 percent of stated value, which includes an early redemption fee of $37 million that is reflected in “other income, net” in our statement of income for the year ended December 31, 2018.
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•VLP issued $500 million of 4.5 percent Senior Notes due March 15, 2028. Proceeds from this debt issuance totaled $498 million before deducting the underwriting discount and other debt issuance costs. The proceeds were available only to the operations of VLP and were used to repay the outstanding balance of $410 million on the VLP Revolver and $85 million on its notes payable to us, which is eliminated in consolidation.
Other Debt
During the year ended December 31, 2018, we retired $137 million of debt assumed in connection with the Peru Acquisition with available cash on hand.
Other Disclosures
“Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest” is comprised as follows (in millions):
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Interest and debt expense | Interest and debt expense | $ | 638 | | | $ | 544 | | | $ | 557 | | Interest and debt expense | $ | 619 | | | $ | 651 | | | $ | 638 | |
Less: Capitalized interest | Less: Capitalized interest | 75 | | | 90 | | | 87 | | Less: Capitalized interest | 57 | | | 48 | | | 75 | |
Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | $ | 563 | | | $ | 454 | | | $ | 470 | | Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | $ | 562 | | | $ | 603 | | | $ | 563 | |
Our credit facilities and other debt arrangements contain various customary restrictive covenants, including cross-default and cross-acceleration clauses.
Principal maturities for our debt obligations as of December 31, 20202022 were as follows (in millions):
| 2021 (a) | $ | 603 | | |
2022 | 6 | | |
2023 | 1,445 | | |
2023 (a) | | 2023 (a) | $ | 861 | |
2024 | 2024 | 925 | | 2024 | 167 | |
2025 | 2025 | 1,650 | | 2025 | 441 | |
2026 | | 2026 | 672 | |
2027 | | 2027 | 578 | |
Thereafter | Thereafter | 8,474 | | Thereafter | 6,606 | |
Net unamortized debt issuance costs and other | Net unamortized debt issuance costs and other | (90) | | Net unamortized debt issuance costs and other | (84) | |
Total debt | Total debt | $ | 13,013 | | Total debt | $ | 9,241 | |
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(a)As of December 31, 2020, our debt obligations due in 2021Maturities for 2023 include $598 millionassociated with borrowings underthe DGD Revolver, the DGD Loan Agreement, and the IEnova Revolver.
11.9. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Purchase Obligations
We have various purchase obligations under certain crude oil and other feedstock supply arrangements, industrial gas supply arrangements (such as hydrogen supply arrangements), natural gas supply arrangements, and various throughput, transportation, and terminaling agreements. We enter into these contracts to ensure an adequate supply of feedstock and utilities and adequate storage capacity to operate
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our refineries and ethanol plants. Substantially all of our purchase obligations are based on market prices or adjustments based on market indices. Certain of these purchase obligations include fixed or minimum volume requirements, while others are based on our usage requirements. None of these obligations is associated with suppliers’ financing arrangements. These purchase obligations are not reflected as liabilities.
Self-Insurance
We are self-insured for certain medical and dental, workers’ compensation, automobile liability, general liability, and propertyother third-party liability claims up to applicable retention limits. Liabilities are accrued for self-insured claims, or when estimated losses exceed coverage limits, and when sufficient information is available to reasonably estimate the amount of the loss. These liabilities are included in accrued expenses and other long-term liabilities.
12. EQUITY
Share Activity
Activity in the number of shares of common stock and treasury stock was as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Common Stock | | Treasury Stock |
Balance as of December 31, 2017 | 673 | | | (240) | |
| | | |
Open market stock purchases | — | | | (16) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2018 | 673 | | | (256) | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | 1 | |
Open market stock purchases | — | | | (9) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2019 | 673 | | | (264) | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | 1 | |
Open market stock purchases | — | | | (2) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2020 | 673 | | | (265) | |
Preferred Stock
We have 20 million shares of preferred stock authorized with a par value of $0.01 per share. NaN shares of preferred stock were outstanding as of December 31, 2020 or 2019.
Treasury Stock
We purchase shares of our outstanding common stock as authorized under our common stock purchase program (described below) and to meet our obligations under employee stock-based compensation plans.
On September 21, 2016, our board of directors authorized our purchase of up to $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, and we completed that program during 2018. On January 23, 2018, our board of directors authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock (the 2018 Program) with no expiration date. During the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018, we purchased $83 million, $752 million, and $1.5 billion,
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respectively,available to reasonably estimate the amount of the loss. These liabilities are included in accrued expenses and other long-term liabilities.
10. EQUITY
Share Activity
Activity in the number of shares of common stock and treasury stock was as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Common Stock | | Treasury Stock |
Balance as of December 31, 2019 | 673 | | | (264) | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | 1 | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | — | | | (2) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2020 | 673 | | | (265) | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | 1 | |
| | | |
Balance as of December 31, 2021 | 673 | | | (264) | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | 1 | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | — | | | (38) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2022 | 673 | | | (301) | |
Preferred Stock
We have 20 million shares of preferred stock authorized with a par value of $0.01 per share. No shares of preferred stock were outstanding as of December 31, 2022 or 2021.
Treasury Stock
We purchase shares of our outstanding common stock as authorized by our board of directors (Board), including under share purchase programs (described below) and with respect to our programs.employee stock-based compensation plans.
On January 23, 2018, our Board authorized our purchase of up to $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, and we completed all authorized share purchases under that program during the second quarter of 2022. On July 7, 2022, we announced that our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, and we completed all authorized share purchases under that program during the fourth quarter of 2022. On October 26, 2022, our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date (the October 2022 Program). As of December 31, 2020,2022, we have approvalhad$2.3 billionremaining available for purchase under the 2018 ProgramOctober 2022 Program. On February 23, 2023, our Board authorized our purchase of up to purchase approximately $1.4an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock.stock with no expiration date, which is in addition to the amount remaining under the October 2022 Program.
Common Stock Dividends
On January 26, 2021,31, 2023, our board of directorsBoard declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.98$1.02 per common share payable on March 4, 202116, 2023 to holders of record at the close of business on February 11, 2021.14, 2023.
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Income Tax Effects Related to Components of Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
The tax effects allocated to each component of other comprehensive income (loss) were as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Before-Tax Amount | | Tax Expense (Benefit) | | Net Amount |
Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | 161 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 161 | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
Loss arising during the year related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | (128) | | | (26) | | | (102) | |
| | | | | |
Prior service cost | (5) | | | (1) | | | (4) | |
| | | | | |
Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 74 | | | 17 | | | 57 | |
Prior service credit | (26) | | | (6) | | | (20) | |
Curtailment and settlement loss | 5 | | | 1 | | | 4 | |
Net loss on pension and other postretirement benefits | (80) | | | (15) | | | (65) | |
Derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges: | | | | | |
Net gain arising during the year | 36 | | | 3 | | | 33 | |
Net gain reclassified into income | (34) | | | (4) | | | (30) | |
Net gain on cash flow hedges | 2 | | | (1) | | | 3 | |
Other comprehensive income | $ | 83 | | | $ | (16) | | | $ | 99 | |
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| Before-Tax Amount | | Tax Expense (Benefit) | | Net Amount |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | (613) | | | $ | (7) | | | $ | (606) | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Net actuarial gain arising during the year | 244 | | | 57 | | | 187 | |
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Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 52 | | | 12 | | | 40 | |
Prior service credit | (22) | | | (5) | | | (17) | |
Settlement loss | 61 | | | 13 | | | 48 | |
| | | | | |
Net gain on pension and other postretirement benefits | 335 | | | 77 | | | 258 | |
Derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges: | | | | | |
Net loss arising during the year | (292) | | | (32) | | | (260) | |
Net loss reclassified into income | 286 | | | 32 | | | 254 | |
Net loss on cash flow hedges | (6) | | | — | | | (6) | |
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Other comprehensive loss | $ | (284) | | | $ | 70 | | | $ | (354) | |
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| Before-Tax Amount | | Tax Expense (Benefit) | | Net Amount |
Year ended December 31, 2019 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | 349 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 349 | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
Loss arising during the year related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | (245) | | | (54) | | | (191) | |
| | | | | |
Prior service cost | (3) | | | (1) | | | (2) | |
Miscellaneous loss | 0 | | | 4 | | | (4) | |
Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 38 | | | 9 | | | 29 | |
Prior service credit | (28) | | | (6) | | | (22) | |
Curtailment and settlement loss | 4 | | | 1 | | | 3 | |
Net loss on pension and other postretirement benefits | (234) | | | (47) | | | (187) | |
Derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges: | | | | | |
Net loss arising during the year | (6) | | | (1) | | | (5) | |
Net gain reclassified into income | (2) | | | 0 | | | (2) | |
Net loss on cash flow hedges | (8) | | | (1) | | | (7) | |
Other comprehensive income | $ | 107 | | | $ | (48) | | | $ | 155 | |
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Year ended December 31, 2018 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | (517) | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | (517) | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
Gain arising during the year related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial gain | 1 | | | 0 | | | 1 | |
| | | | | |
Prior service credit | 7 | | | 1 | | | 6 | |
| | | | | |
Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 63 | | | 14 | | | 49 | |
Prior service credit | (29) | | | (7) | | | (22) | |
Curtailment and settlement loss | 7 | | | 2 | | | 5 | |
Net gain on pension and other postretirement benefits | 49 | | | 10 | | | 39 | |
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Other comprehensive loss | $ | (468) | | | $ | 10 | | | $ | (478) | |
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| Before-Tax Amount | | Tax Expense (Benefit) | | Net Amount |
Year ended December 31, 2021 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | (47) | | | $ | — | | | $ | (47) | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
Gain arising during the year related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial gain | 317 | | | 69 | | | 248 | |
| | | | | |
Prior service cost | (4) | | | (1) | | | (3) | |
| | | | | |
Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 80 | | | 18 | | | 62 | |
Prior service credit | (25) | | | (6) | | | (19) | |
Settlement loss | 8 | | | 2 | | | 6 | |
Effect of exchange rates | 2 | | | — | | | 2 | |
Net gain on pension and other postretirement benefits | 378 | | | 82 | | | 296 | |
Derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges: | | | | | |
Net loss arising during the year | (48) | | | (5) | | | (43) | |
Net loss reclassified into income | 46 | | | 5 | | | 41 | |
Net loss on cash flow hedges | (2) | | | — | | | (2) | |
Other comprehensive income | $ | 329 | | | $ | 82 | | | $ | 247 | |
| | | | | |
Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | 161 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 161 | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
Loss arising during the year related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | (128) | | | (26) | | | (102) | |
| | | | | |
Prior service cost | (5) | | | (1) | | | (4) | |
| | | | | |
Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 74 | | | 17 | | | 57 | |
Prior service credit | (26) | | | (6) | | | (20) | |
Settlement loss | 5 | | | 1 | | | 4 | |
| | | | | |
Net loss on pension and other postretirement benefits | (80) | | | (15) | | | (65) | |
Derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges: | | | | | |
Net gain arising during the year | 36 | | | 3 | | | 33 | |
Net gain reclassified into income | (34) | | | (4) | | | (30) | |
Net gain on cash flow hedges | 2 | | | (1) | | | 3 | |
Other comprehensive income | $ | 83 | | | $ | (16) | | | $ | 99 | |
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Accumulated Other ComprehensiveLoss
Changes in accumulated other comprehensive loss by component, net of tax, were as follows (in millions):
| | | Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment | | Defined Benefit Plans Items | | Gains (Losses) on Cash Flow Hedges | | Total | | Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment | | Defined Benefit Plans Items | | Gains (Losses) on Cash Flow Hedges | | | Total |
Balance as of December 31, 2017 | $ | (507) | | | $ | (433) | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | (940) | | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | (515) | | | 7 | | | 0 | | | (508) | | |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | 0 | | | 32 | | | 0 | | | 32 | | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) | (515) | | | 39 | | | 0 | | | (476) | | |
Reclassification of stranded income tax effects | 0 | | | (91) | | | 0 | | | (91) | | |
Balance as of December 31, 2018 | (1,022) | | | (485) | | | 0 | | | (1,507) | | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | 346 | | | (197) | | | (2) | | | 147 | | |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | 0 | | | 10 | | | (1) | | | 9 | | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) | 346 | | | (187) | | | (3) | | | 156 | | |
Balance as of December 31, 2019 | Balance as of December 31, 2019 | (676) | | | (672) | | | (3) | | | (1,351) | | Balance as of December 31, 2019 | $ | (676) | | | $ | (672) | | | $ | (3) | | | | $ | (1,351) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | 161 | | | (106) | | | 14 | | | 69 | | Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | 161 | | | (106) | | | 14 | | | | 69 | |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | 0 | | | 41 | | | (13) | | | 28 | | Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | — | | | 41 | | | (13) | | | | 28 | |
| Other comprehensive income (loss) | Other comprehensive income (loss) | 161 | | | (65) | | | 1 | | | 97 | | Other comprehensive income (loss) | 161 | | | (65) | | | 1 | | | | 97 | |
Balance as of December 31, 2020 | Balance as of December 31, 2020 | $ | (515) | | | $ | (737) | | | $ | (2) | | | $ | (1,254) | | Balance as of December 31, 2020 | (515) | | | (737) | | | (2) | | | | (1,254) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | | Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | (47) | | | 245 | | | (21) | | | | 177 | |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | | Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | — | | | 49 | | | 18 | | | | 67 | |
Effect of exchange rates | | Effect of exchange rates | — | | | 2 | | | — | | | | 2 | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) | | Other comprehensive income (loss) | (47) | | | 296 | | | (3) | | | | 246 | |
Balance as of December 31, 2021 | | Balance as of December 31, 2021 | (562) | | | (441) | | | (5) | | | | (1,008) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | | Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | (606) | | | 187 | | | (114) | | | | (533) | |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | | Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | — | | | 71 | | | 111 | | | | 182 | |
| Other comprehensive income (loss) | | Other comprehensive income (loss) | (606) | | | 258 | | | (3) | | | | (351) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2022 | | Balance as of December 31, 2022 | $ | (1,168) | | | $ | (183) | | | $ | (8) | | | | $ | (1,359) | |
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Gains (losses) reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensiveloss and into net income (loss) were as follows (in millions):
| Details about Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss Components | Details about Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss Components | | | | Affected Line Item in the Statement of Income | Details about Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss Components | | | | Affected Line Item in the Statement of Income |
| Year Ended December 31, | | | Year Ended December 31, | |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | |
Amortization of items related to defined benefit pension plans: | Amortization of items related to defined benefit pension plans: | | | | | | | | | Amortization of items related to defined benefit pension plans: | | | | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | Net actuarial loss | | $ | (74) | | | $ | (38) | | | $ | (63) | | | (a) Other income, net | Net actuarial loss | | $ | (52) | | | $ | (80) | | | $ | (74) | | | (a) Other income, net |
Prior service credit | Prior service credit | | 26 | | | 28 | | | 29 | | | (a) Other income, net | Prior service credit | | 22 | | | 25 | | | 26 | | | (a) Other income, net |
Curtailment and settlement | | (5) | | | (4) | | | (7) | | | (a) Other income, net | |
Settlement loss | | Settlement loss | | (61) | | | (8) | | | (5) | | | (a) Other income, net |
| | (53) | | | (14) | | | (41) | | | Total before tax | | (91) | | | (63) | | | (53) | | | Total before tax |
| | 12 | | | 4 | | | 9 | | | Tax benefit | | 20 | | | 14 | | | 12 | | | Tax benefit |
| | $ | (41) | | | $ | (10) | | | $ | (32) | | | Net of tax | | $ | (71) | | | $ | (49) | | | $ | (41) | | | Net of tax |
| Gains on cash flow hedges: | | |
Gains (losses) on cash flow hedges: | | Gains (losses) on cash flow hedges: | |
Commodity contracts | Commodity contracts | | $ | 34 | | | $ | 2 | | | $ | 0 | | | Revenues | Commodity contracts | | $ | (286) | | | $ | (46) | | | $ | 34 | | | Revenues |
| | 34 | | | 2 | | | 0 | | | Total before tax | | (286) | | | (46) | | | 34 | | | Total before tax |
| | (4) | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | Tax expense | | 32 | | | 5 | | | (4) | | | Tax (expense) benefit |
| | $ | 30 | | | $ | 2 | | | $ | 0 | | | Net of tax | | $ | (254) | | | $ | (41) | | | $ | 30 | | | Net of tax |
| | Total reclassifications for the year | Total reclassifications for the year | | $ | (11) | | | $ | (8) | | | $ | (32) | | | Net of tax | Total reclassifications for the year | | $ | (325) | | | $ | (90) | | | $ | (11) | | | Net of tax |
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(a)These accumulated other comprehensive loss components are included in the computation of net periodic benefit cost, as discussed in Note 14.12.
13.11. VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES
Consolidated VIEs
In the normal course of business, we have financial interests in certain entities that have been determined to be VIEs. We consolidate a VIE when we have a variable interest in an entity for which we are the primary beneficiary such that we have (i) the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the VIE’s economic performance and (ii) the obligation to absorb losses of or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE. In order to make this determination, we evaluated our contractual arrangements with the VIE, including arrangements for the use of assets, purchases of products and services, debt, equity, or management of operating activities.
The following discussion summarizes our involvement with ourthe consolidated VIEs:
•DGD is a joint venture with a subsidiary of Darling Ingredients Inc. that owns and operates a planttwo plants that processes renderedprocess waste and recycled materials, includingrenewable feedstocks (predominately animal fats, used cooking oils, and other vegetable oils,inedible distillers corn oils) into renewable diesel. Thediesel and renewable naphtha. One plant is located in Norco, Louisiana next to our St. Charles Refinery (the DGD St. Charles Plant) and the other plant is the DGD
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St. Charles Refinery.Port Arthur Plant. Our significant agreements with DGD include an operations agreement that outlines our responsibilities as operator of the plant.
both plants.
As operator, we operate the plantplants and perform certain day-to-day operating and management functions for DGD as an independent contractor. The operations agreement provides us (as operator) with certain power to direct the activities that most significantly impact DGD’s economic performance. Because this agreement conveys such power to us and is separate from our ownership rights, we determined that DGD was a VIE. For this reason and because we hold a 50 percent ownership interest that provides us with significant economic rights and obligations, we determined that we are the primary beneficiary of DGD. DGD has risk associated with its operations because it generates revenues from third-partyexternal customers.
•Central Mexico Terminals is a collective group of three subsidiaries of Infraestructura Energetica Nova, S.A.B.S.A.P.I. de C.V. (IEnova), a Mexican company and indirect subsidiary of Sempra Energy, a U.S. public company. We have terminaling agreements with Central Mexico Terminals that represent variable interests because we have determined them to be finance leases due to our exclusive use of the terminals. Although we do not have an ownership interest in the entities that own each of the three terminals, the finance leases convey to us (i) the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of all three terminals and (ii) the ability to influence the benefits received or the losses incurred by the terminals because of our use of the terminals. As a result, we determined each of the entities was a VIE and that we are the primary beneficiary of each. Substantially all of Central Mexico Terminals’ revenues will be derived from us; therefore, we believe there is limited risk to us associated with Central Mexico Terminals’ operations.
•We also have financial interests in other entities that have been determined to be VIEs because the entities’ contractual arrangements transfer the power to us to direct the activities that most significantly impact their economic performance or reduce the exposure to operational variability and risk of loss created by the entity that otherwise would be held exclusively by the equity owners. Furthermore, we determined that we are the primary beneficiary of these VIEs because (i) certain contractual arrangements (exclusive of our ownership rights) provide us with the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of these entities and/or (ii) our 50 percent ownership interests provide us with significant economic rights and obligations.
The assets of ourthe consolidated VIEs can only be used to settle their own obligations and the creditors of ourthe consolidated VIEs have no recourse to our other assets. We generally do not provide financial guarantees to ourthe VIEs. Although we have provided credit facilities to some of ourthe VIEs in support of their construction or acquisition activities, these transactions are eliminated in consolidation. Our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows are impacted by the performance of ourthe consolidated VIEs, net of intercompany eliminations, to the extent of our ownership interest in each VIE.
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The following tables presenttable presents summarized balance sheet information for the significant assets and liabilities of ourthe consolidated VIEs, which are included in our balance sheets (in millions).:
| | | December 31, 2020 | | DGD | | Central Mexico Terminals | | Other | | Total |
| DGD | | Central Mexico Terminals | | Other | | Total | |
December 31, 2022 | | December 31, 2022 | | | | | | | |
Assets | Assets | | | | | | | | Assets | |
Cash and cash equivalents | Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 144 | | | $ | 1 | | | $ | 16 | | | $ | 161 | | Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 133 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 16 | | | $ | 149 | |
Other current assets | Other current assets | 219 | | | 24 | | | 8 | | | 251 | | Other current assets | 1,106 | | | 7 | | | 32 | | | 1,145 | |
Property, plant, and equipment, net | Property, plant, and equipment, net | 1,232 | | | 590 | | | 96 | | | 1,918 | | Property, plant, and equipment, net | 3,785 | | | 681 | | | 79 | | | 4,545 | |
Liabilities | Liabilities | | Liabilities | |
Current liabilities, including current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | Current liabilities, including current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | 90 | | | $ | 620 | | | $ | 8 | | | $ | 718 | | Current liabilities, including current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | 626 | | | $ | 737 | | | $ | 21 | | | $ | 1,384 | |
Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | 1 | | | 0 | | | 25 | | | 26 | | Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | 693 | | | — | | | — | | | 693 | |
| | | December 31, 2019 | |
| | DGD | | Central Mexico Terminals | | Other | | Total | |
December 31, 2021 | | December 31, 2021 | |
Assets | Assets | | | | | | | | Assets | |
Cash and cash equivalents | Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 85 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 25 | | | $ | 110 | | Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 21 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 15 | | | $ | 36 | |
Other current assets | Other current assets | 567 | | | 33 | | | 89 | | | 689 | | Other current assets | 558 | | | 10 | | | 13 | | | 581 | |
Property, plant, and equipment, net | Property, plant, and equipment, net | 706 | | | 381 | | | 105 | | | 1,192 | | Property, plant, and equipment, net | 2,629 | | | 676 | | | 91 | | | 3,396 | |
Liabilities | Liabilities | | Liabilities | |
Current liabilities, including current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | Current liabilities, including current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | 66 | | | $ | 409 | | | $ | 8 | | | $ | 483 | | Current liabilities, including current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | 398 | | | $ | 729 | | | $ | 9 | | | $ | 1,136 | |
Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | 0 | | | 0 | | | 31 | | | 31 | | Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | 264 | | | — | | | 20 | | | 284 | |
Non-ConsolidatedNonconsolidated VIEs
We hold variable interests in VIEs that have not been consolidated because we are not considered the primary beneficiary. These non-consolidatednonconsolidated VIEs are not material to our financial position or results of operations and are accounted for as equity investments.
On April 19, 2021, we sold a 24.99 percent membership interest in MVP Terminalling, LLC (MVP), a nonconsolidated joint venture, for $270 million that resulted in a gain of $62 million, which is included in “other income, net” for the year ended December 31, 2021. MVP owns and operates a marine terminal (the MVP Terminal) located on the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas. We retained a 25.01 percent membership interest in MVP.
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14.12. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
Defined Benefit Plans
We have defined benefit pension plans, some of which are subject to collective bargaining agreements, that cover most of our employees. These plans provide eligible employees with retirement income based primarily on years of service and compensation during specific periods under final average pay and cash balance formulas. We fund all of our pension plans as required by local regulations. In the U.S., all qualified pension plans are subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act’s minimum funding standard. We typically do not fund or fully fund U.S. nonqualified and certain internationalforeign pension plans that are not subject to funding requirements because contributions to these pension plans may be less economic and investment returns may be less attractive than our other investment alternatives.
We also provide health care and life insurance benefits for certain retired employees through our postretirement benefit plans. Most of our employees become eligible for these benefits if, while still working for us, they reach normal retirement age or take early retirement. These plans are unfunded, and retired employees share the cost with us. Individuals who became our employees as a result of an acquisition became eligible for postretirement benefits under our plans as determined by the terms of the relevant acquisition agreement.
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The changes in benefit obligation related to all of our defined benefit plans, the changes in fair value of plan assets(a), and the funded status of our defined benefit plans as of and for the years ended below were as follows (in millions):
| | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| | December 31, | | December 31, | | December 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Changes in benefit obligation | Changes in benefit obligation | | | | | | | | Changes in benefit obligation | | | | | | | |
Benefit obligation as of beginning of year | Benefit obligation as of beginning of year | $ | 3,239 | | | $ | 2,639 | | | $ | 336 | | | $ | 292 | | Benefit obligation as of beginning of year | $ | 3,463 | | | $ | 3,625 | | | $ | 347 | | | $ | 358 | |
Service cost | Service cost | 140 | | | 119 | | | 6 | | | 5 | | Service cost | 152 | | | 161 | | | 6 | | | 7 | |
Interest cost | Interest cost | 85 | | | 98 | | | 9 | | | 11 | | Interest cost | 85 | | | 73 | | | 8 | | | 7 | |
| Participant contributions | Participant contributions | 0 | | | 0 | | | 12 | | | 11 | | Participant contributions | — | | | — | | | 13 | | | 13 | |
| Benefits paid | | Benefits paid | (366) | | | (284) | | | (29) | | | (29) | |
Actuarial gain | | Actuarial gain | (882) | | | (111) | | | (86) | | | (9) | |
| Benefits paid | (195) | | | (154) | | | (28) | | | (29) | | |
Actuarial loss | 339 | | | 528 | | | 23 | | | 41 | | |
Other | 17 | | | 9 | | | 0 | | | 5 | | |
Foreign currency exchange rate changes | | Foreign currency exchange rate changes | (39) | | | (1) | | | (1) | | | — | |
| Benefit obligation as of end of year | Benefit obligation as of end of year | $ | 3,625 | | | $ | 3,239 | | | $ | 358 | | | $ | 336 | | Benefit obligation as of end of year | $ | 2,413 | | | $ | 3,463 | | | $ | 258 | | | $ | 347 | |
| Changes in plan assets (a) | Changes in plan assets (a) | | Changes in plan assets (a) | |
Fair value of plan assets as of beginning of year | Fair value of plan assets as of beginning of year | $ | 2,709 | | | $ | 2,236 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | Fair value of plan assets as of beginning of year | $ | 3,303 | | | $ | 3,067 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Actual return on plan assets | Actual return on plan assets | 413 | | | 490 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | Actual return on plan assets | (532) | | | 389 | | | — | | | — | |
Valero contributions | 129 | | | 128 | | | 16 | | | 18 | | |
Company contributions | | Company contributions | 120 | | | 135 | | | 16 | | | 16 | |
Participant contributions | Participant contributions | 0 | | | 0 | | | 12 | | | 11 | | Participant contributions | — | | | — | | | 13 | | | 13 | |
Benefits paid | | Benefits paid | (366) | | | (284) | | | (29) | | | (29) | |
| Benefits paid | (195) | | | (154) | | | (28) | | | (29) | | |
Other | 11 | | | 9 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | |
Foreign currency exchange rate changes | | Foreign currency exchange rate changes | (40) | | | (4) | | | — | | | — | |
| Fair value of plan assets as of end of year | Fair value of plan assets as of end of year | $ | 3,067 | | | $ | 2,709 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | Fair value of plan assets as of end of year | $ | 2,485 | | | $ | 3,303 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
| Reconciliation of funded status (a) | Reconciliation of funded status (a) | | Reconciliation of funded status (a) | |
Fair value of plan assets as of end of year | Fair value of plan assets as of end of year | $ | 3,067 | | | $ | 2,709 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | Fair value of plan assets as of end of year | $ | 2,485 | | | $ | 3,303 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Less: Benefit obligation as of end of year | Less: Benefit obligation as of end of year | 3,625 | | | 3,239 | | | 358 | | | 336 | | Less: Benefit obligation as of end of year | 2,413 | | | 3,463 | | | 258 | | | 347 | |
Funded status as of end of year | Funded status as of end of year | $ | (558) | | | $ | (530) | | | $ | (358) | | | $ | (336) | | Funded status as of end of year | $ | 72 | | | $ | (160) | | | $ | (258) | | | $ | (347) | |
| Accumulated benefit obligation | Accumulated benefit obligation | $ | 3,398 | | | $ | 3,039 | | | n/a | | n/a | Accumulated benefit obligation | $ | 2,271 | | | $ | 3,238 | | | n/a | | n/a |
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(a)Plan assets include only the assets associated with pension plans subject to legal minimum funding standards. Plan assets associated with U.S. nonqualified pension plans are not included here because they are not protected from our creditors and therefore cannot be reflected as a reduction from our obligations under the pension plans. As a result, the reconciliation of funded status does not reflect the effect of plan assets that exist for all of our defined benefit plans. See Note 2018 for the assets associated with certain U.S. nonqualified pension plans.
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The actuarial lossgain for the year ended December 31, 20202022 primarily resulted from a decreasean increase in the discount rates used to determine our benefit obligations for our pension plans from 3.142.93 percent in 20192021 to 2.625.19 percent in 2020.2022 due primarily to rising interest rates during 2022 as a result of actions by the Federal Reserve System and other central banks to address inflation. The actuarial lossgain for the year ended December 31, 20192021 primarily resulted from a decreasean increase in the discount rates used to determine our benefit obligations for our pension plans from 4.252.62 percent in 20182020 to 3.142.93 percent in 2019.2021.
Benefits paid for the year ended December 31, 2022 were higher than those paid in 2021 due to a greater number of participants retiring in 2022 who elected lump-sum distributions. We believe that the increase in lump-sum elections was driven by the negative impact higher interest rates will have on lump-sum payments made after December 31, 2022.
The fair value of our plan assets as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 were2022 was unfavorably impacted by the negative return on plan assets resulting primarily from a significant decline in equity market prices throughout the year. The fair value of our plan assets as of December 31, 2021 was favorably impacted by thereturn on plan assets resulting primarily from an improvement in equity market prices for eachthroughout the year.
Amounts recognized in our balance sheet for our pension and other postretirement benefits plans include (in millions):
| | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| | December 31, | | December 31, | | December 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Deferred charges and other assets, net | Deferred charges and other assets, net | $ | 7 | | | $ | 5 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | Deferred charges and other assets, net | $ | 297 | | | $ | 135 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Accrued expenses | Accrued expenses | (24) | | | (17) | | | (21) | | | (20) | | Accrued expenses | (14) | | | (19) | | | (21) | | | (22) | |
Other long-term liabilities | Other long-term liabilities | (541) | | | (518) | | | (337) | | | (316) | | Other long-term liabilities | (211) | | | (276) | | | (237) | | | (325) | |
| | $ | (558) | | | $ | (530) | | | $ | (358) | | | $ | (336) | | | $ | 72 | | | $ | (160) | | | $ | (258) | | | $ | (347) | |
The following table presents information for our pension plans with projected benefit obligations in excess of plan assets (in millions):
| | | December 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Projected benefit obligation | Projected benefit obligation | $ | 3,561 | | | $ | 3,182 | | Projected benefit obligation | $ | 249 | | | $ | 335 | |
Fair value of plan assets | Fair value of plan assets | 2,997 | | | 2,647 | | Fair value of plan assets | 24 | | | 40 | |
The following table presents information for our pension plans with accumulated benefit obligations in excess of plan assets (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 |
Accumulated benefit obligation | $ | 3,336 | | | $ | 2,760 | |
Fair value of plan assets | 2,997 | | | 2,402 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Accumulated benefit obligation | $ | 209 | | | $ | 265 | |
Fair value of plan assets | 24 | | | 31 | |
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Benefit payments that we expect to pay, including amounts related to expected future services that we expect to receive, are as follows for the years ending December 31 (in millions):
| | | Pension Benefits | | Other Postretirement Benefits | | Pension Benefits | | Other Postretirement Benefits |
2021 | $ | 195 | | | $ | 21 | | |
2022 | 227 | | | 21 | | |
2023 | 2023 | 199 | | | 21 | | 2023 | $ | 159 | | | $ | 21 | |
2024 | 2024 | 202 | | | 20 | | 2024 | 203 | | | 21 | |
2025 | 2025 | 215 | | | 20 | | 2025 | 181 | | | 20 | |
2026-2030 | 1,107 | | | 90 | | |
2026 | | 2026 | 192 | | | 19 | |
2027 | | 2027 | 198 | | | 19 | |
2028-2032 | | 2028-2032 | 969 | | | 88 | |
We plan to contribute $128$108 million to our pension plansand $22$21 million to our other postretirement benefit plans during 2021.2023.
The components of net periodic benefit cost related to our defined benefit plans were as follows (in millions):
| | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Service cost | Service cost | $ | 140 | | | $ | 119 | | | $ | 133 | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 5 | | | $ | 6 | | Service cost | $ | 152 | | | $ | 161 | | | $ | 140 | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 7 | | | $ | 6 | |
Interest cost | Interest cost | 85 | | | 98 | | | 91 | | | 9 | | | 11 | | | 10 | | Interest cost | 85 | | | 73 | | | 85 | | | 8 | | | 7 | | | 9 | |
Expected return on plan assets | Expected return on plan assets | (179) | | | (166) | | | (163) | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | Expected return on plan assets | (192) | | | (192) | | | (179) | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
Amortization of: | Amortization of: | | Amortization of: | |
Net actuarial (gain) loss | Net actuarial (gain) loss | 74 | | | 41 | | | 65 | | | 0 | | | (3) | | | (2) | | Net actuarial (gain) loss | 52 | | | 81 | | | 74 | | | — | | | (1) | | | — | |
Prior service credit | Prior service credit | (19) | | | (19) | | | (18) | | | (7) | | | (9) | | | (11) | | Prior service credit | (18) | | | (18) | | | (19) | | | (4) | | | (7) | | | (7) | |
Special charges | 5 | | | 4 | | | 7 | | | 0 | | | 1 | | | 0 | | |
Settlement loss | | Settlement loss | 61 | | | 8 | | | 5 | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
Net periodic benefit cost | Net periodic benefit cost | $ | 106 | | | $ | 77 | | | $ | 115 | | | $ | 8 | | | $ | 5 | | | $ | 3 | | Net periodic benefit cost | $ | 140 | | | $ | 113 | | | $ | 106 | | | $ | 10 | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 8 | |
The components of net periodic benefit cost other than the service cost component (i.e., the non-service cost components) are included in “other income, net” in the statements of income.net.”
Amortization of prior service credit shown in the preceding table was based on a straight-line amortization of the cost over the average remaining service period of employees expected to receive benefits under each respective plan. Amortization of the net actuarial (gain) loss shown in the preceding table was based on the straight-line amortization of the excess of the unrecognized (gain) loss over 10 percent of the greater of the projected benefit obligation or market-related value of plan assets (smoothed asset value) over the average remaining service period of active employees expected to receive benefits under each respective plan. Amortization of prior service credit shown in the preceding table was based on a straight-line amortization of the credit over the average remaining service period of employees expected to receive benefits under each respective plan.
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Pre-tax amounts recognized in other comprehensive income (loss) were as follows (in millions):
| | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Net gain (loss) arising during the year: | Net gain (loss) arising during the year: | | | | | | | | | | | | Net gain (loss) arising during the year: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net actuarial gain (loss) | Net actuarial gain (loss) | $ | (105) | | | $ | (204) | | | $ | (8) | | | $ | (23) | | | $ | (41) | | | $ | 9 | | Net actuarial gain (loss) | $ | 158 | | | $ | 308 | | | $ | (105) | | | $ | 86 | | | $ | 9 | | | $ | (23) | |
Prior service (cost) credit | (5) | | | 0 | | | 7 | | | 0 | | | (3) | | | 0 | | |
Prior service cost | | Prior service cost | — | | | (4) | | | (5) | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Net (gain) loss reclassified into income: | Net (gain) loss reclassified into income: | | Net (gain) loss reclassified into income: | |
Net actuarial (gain) loss | Net actuarial (gain) loss | 74 | | | 41 | | | 65 | | | 0 | | | (3) | | | (2) | | Net actuarial (gain) loss | 53 | | | 81 | | | 74 | | | (1) | | | (1) | | | — | |
Prior service credit | Prior service credit | (19) | | | (19) | | | (18) | | | (7) | | | (9) | | | (11) | | Prior service credit | (18) | | | (18) | | | (19) | | | (4) | | | (7) | | | (7) | |
Curtailment and settlement loss | 5 | | | 4 | | | 7 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | |
Settlement loss | | Settlement loss | 61 | | | 8 | | | 5 | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
Effect of exchange rates | | Effect of exchange rates | — | | | 2 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| Total changes in other comprehensive income (loss) | Total changes in other comprehensive income (loss) | $ | (50) | | | $ | (178) | | | $ | 53 | | | $ | (30) | | | $ | (56) | | | $ | (4) | | Total changes in other comprehensive income (loss) | $ | 254 | | | $ | 377 | | | $ | (50) | | | $ | 81 | | | $ | 1 | | | $ | (30) | |
The pre-tax amounts in accumulated other comprehensive loss that have not yet been recognized as components of net periodic benefit cost were as follows (in millions):
| | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| | December 31, | | December 31, | | December 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Net actuarial (gain) loss | Net actuarial (gain) loss | $ | 1,014 | | | $ | 988 | | | $ | 4 | | | $ | (20) | | Net actuarial (gain) loss | $ | 342 | | | $ | 615 | | | $ | (89) | | | $ | (4) | |
Prior service credit | Prior service credit | (66) | | | (90) | | | (13) | | | (19) | | Prior service credit | (25) | | | (44) | | | (2) | | | (6) | |
Total | Total | $ | 948 | | | $ | 898 | | | $ | (9) | | | $ | (39) | | Total | $ | 317 | | | $ | 571 | | | $ | (91) | | | $ | (10) | |
The weighted-average assumptions used to determine the benefit obligations were as follows:
| | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| | December 31, | | December 31, | | December 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Discount rate | Discount rate | 2.62 | % | | 3.14 | % | | 2.64 | % | | 3.32 | % | Discount rate | 5.19 | % | | 2.93 | % | | 5.20 | % | | 2.96 | % |
Rate of compensation increase | Rate of compensation increase | 3.66 | % | | 3.75 | % | | n/a | | n/a | Rate of compensation increase | 3.76 | % | | 3.70 | % | | n/a | | n/a |
Interest crediting rate for cash balance plans | Interest crediting rate for cash balance plans | 3.03 | % | | 3.03 | % | | n/a | | n/a | Interest crediting rate for cash balance plans | 3.76 | % | | 3.03 | % | | n/a | | n/a |
The discount rate assumption used to determine the benefit obligations as of December 31, 20202022 and 20192021 for the majority of our pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans was based on the Aon AA Only Above Median yield curve and considered the timing of the projected cash outflows under our plans. This curve was designed by Aon, our actuarial consultant, to provide a means for plan sponsors to
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plans. This curve was designed by Aon, our actuarial consultant, to provide a means for plan sponsors to value the liabilities of their pension plans or postretirement benefit plans. To develop this curve, a hypothetical double-A yield curve represented by a series of annualized individual discount rates with maturities from one-half yearsix months to 99 years is constructed. Each bond issue underlying the double-A yield curve is required to have an average rating of double-A when averaging all available ratings by Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, and Fitch Ratings. Only the bonds representing the 50 percent highest yielding issuances of this double-A yield curve are then included in the Aon AA Only Above Median yield curve.
We based our discount rate assumption on the Aon AA Only Above Median yield curve because we believe it is representative of the types of bonds we would use to settle our pension and other postretirement benefit plan liabilities as of those dates. We believe that the yields associated with the bonds used to develop this yield curve reflect the current level of interest rates.
The weighted-average assumptions used to determine the net periodic benefit cost were as follows:
| | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans | | Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Discount rate | Discount rate | 3.14 | % | | 4.24 | % | | 3.59 | % | | 3.32 | % | | 4.40 | % | | 3.72 | % | Discount rate | 2.94 | % | | 2.62 | % | | 3.14 | % | | 2.96 | % | | 2.64 | % | | 3.32 | % |
Expected long-term rate of return on plan assets | Expected long-term rate of return on plan assets | 7.20 | % | | 7.22 | % | | 7.24 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a | Expected long-term rate of return on plan assets | 6.71 | % | | 7.09 | % | | 7.20 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a |
Rate of compensation increase | Rate of compensation increase | 3.75 | % | | 3.78 | % | | 3.86 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a | Rate of compensation increase | 3.70 | % | | 3.66 | % | | 3.75 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a |
Interest crediting rate for cash balance plans | Interest crediting rate for cash balance plans | 3.03 | % | | 3.04 | % | | 3.04 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a | Interest crediting rate for cash balance plans | 3.03 | % | | 3.03 | % | | 3.03 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a |
The assumed health care cost trend rates were as follows:
| | | December 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Health care cost trend rate assumed for the next year | Health care cost trend rate assumed for the next year | 6.83 | % | | 7.32 | % | Health care cost trend rate assumed for the next year | 6.78 | % | | 6.61 | % |
Rate to which the cost trend rate was assumed to decline (the ultimate trend rate) | Rate to which the cost trend rate was assumed to decline (the ultimate trend rate) | 5.00 | % | | 5.00 | % | Rate to which the cost trend rate was assumed to decline (the ultimate trend rate) | 4.97 | % | | 5.00 | % |
Year that the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate | Year that the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate | 2026 | | 2026 | Year that the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate | 2032 | | 2026 |
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The following tables presenttable presents the fair values of the assets of our pension plans (in millions) as of December 31, 20202022 and 20192021 by level of the fair value hierarchy. Assets categorized in Level 1 of the hierarchy are measured at fair value using a market approach based on unadjusted quoted prices from national securities exchanges. Assets categorized in Level 2 of the hierarchy are measured at net asset value in a market that is not active or inputs other than quoted prices that are observable. No assets were categorized in Level 3 of the hierarchy as of December 31, 2022 and 2021. As previously noted, we do not fund or fully fund U.S. nonqualified and certain internationalforeign pension plans that are not subject to funding requirements, and we do not fund our other postretirement benefit plans.
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| Fair Value Hierarchy | | Total as of December 31, 2020 | | | | | | |
| Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | | | | | | |
Equity securities (a) | $ | 682 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 682 | | | | | | | |
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Mutual funds | 244 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 244 | | | | | | | |
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Corporate debt instruments (a) | 0 | | | 297 | | | 0 | | | 297 | | | | | | | |
Government securities | 85 | | | 142 | | | 0 | | | 227 | | | | | | | |
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Common collective trusts (b) | 0 | | | 1,066 | | | 0 | | | 1,066 | | | | | | | |
Pooled separate accounts (c) | 0 | | | 316 | | | 0 | | | 316 | | | | | | | |
Private funds | 0 | | | 128 | | | 0 | | | 128 | | | | | | | |
Insurance contract | 0 | | | 15 | | | 0 | | | 15 | | | | | | | |
Interest and dividends receivable | 5 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 5 | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | 98 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 98 | | | | | | | |
Securities transactions payable, net | (11) | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (11) | | | | | | | |
Total pension plan assets | $ | 1,103 | | | $ | 1,964 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 3,067 | | | | | | | |
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| | | Fair Value Hierarchy | | Total as of December 31, 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 | |
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Total | | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Total | |
Equity securities (a) | Equity securities (a) | $ | 831 | | | $ | 1 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 832 | | Equity securities (a) | $ | 528 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 528 | | | $ | 681 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 681 | | |
| Mutual funds | Mutual funds | 213 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 213 | | Mutual funds | 191 | | | — | | | 191 | | | 246 | | | — | | | 246 | | |
| Corporate debt instruments (a) | Corporate debt instruments (a) | 0 | | | 293 | | | 0 | | | 293 | | Corporate debt instruments (a) | — | | | 253 | | | 253 | | | — | | | 355 | | | 355 | | |
Government securities | Government securities | 53 | | | 148 | | | 0 | | | 201 | | Government securities | 69 | | | 127 | | | 196 | | | 94 | | | 141 | | | 235 | | |
| Common collective trusts (b) | Common collective trusts (b) | 0 | | | 751 | | | 0 | | | 751 | | Common collective trusts (b) | — | | | 940 | | | 940 | | | — | | | 1,202 | | | 1,202 | | |
Pooled separate accounts (c) | Pooled separate accounts (c) | 0 | | | 250 | | | 0 | | | 250 | | Pooled separate accounts (c) | — | | | 279 | | | 279 | | | — | | | 370 | | | 370 | | |
Private funds | Private funds | 0 | | | 104 | | | 0 | | | 104 | | Private funds | — | | | 43 | | | 43 | | | — | | | 112 | | | 112 | | |
Insurance contract | Insurance contract | 0 | | | 17 | | | 0 | | | 17 | | Insurance contract | — | | | 14 | | | 14 | | | — | | | 15 | | | 15 | | |
Interest and dividends receivable | Interest and dividends receivable | 5 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 5 | | Interest and dividends receivable | 5 | | | — | | | 5 | | | 5 | | | — | | | 5 | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | Cash and cash equivalents | 59 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 59 | | Cash and cash equivalents | 38 | | | 3 | | | 41 | | | 82 | | | — | | | 82 | | |
Securities transactions payable, net | Securities transactions payable, net | (16) | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (16) | | Securities transactions payable, net | (5) | | | — | | | (5) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | |
Total pension plan assets | Total pension plan assets | $ | 1,145 | | | $ | 1,564 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 2,709 | | Total pension plan assets | $ | 826 | | | $ | 1,659 | | | $ | 2,485 | | | $ | 1,108 | | | $ | 2,195 | | | $ | 3,303 | | |
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(a)This class of securities includes domestic and international stocks,securities, which are held in a wide range of industry sectors.
(b)This class primarily includes investments in approximately 80 percent equities and 20 percent bonds as of December 31, 2020. As of December 31, 2019, this class included primarily investments in approximately 75 percent equities2022 and 25 percent bonds.2021.
(c)This class primarily includes investments in approximately 6055 percent equities and 4045 percent bonds as of December 31, 20202022 and 2019. These pension assets are held by our international pension plans.2021.
The investment policies and strategies for the assets of our pension plans incorporate a well-diversified approach that is expected to earn long-term returns from capital appreciation and a growing stream of current income. This approach recognizes that assets are exposed to risk and the market value of the pension plans’ assets may fluctuate from year to year. Risk tolerance is determined based on our financial ability to withstand risk within the investment program and the willingness to accept return volatility. In line with the investment return objective and risk parameters, the pension plans’ mix of assets includes a diversified portfolio of equity and fixed-income investments. Equity securities include international stockssecurities and a blend of U.S. growth and value stocks of various sizes of capitalization. Fixed income securities include bonds and notes issued by the U.S. government and its agencies, corporate bonds, and mortgage-backed securities. The aggregate asset allocation is reviewed on an annual basis. As of December 31, 2020,2022, the target allocations for plan assets under our primary pension plan are 70 percent equity securities and 30 percent fixed income investments.
The expected long-term rate of return on plan assets is based on a forward-looking expected asset return model. This model derives an expected rate of return based on the target asset allocation of a plan’s
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assets. The underlying assumptions regarding expected rates of return for each asset class reflect Aon’s best expectations for these asset classes. The model reflects the positive effect of periodic rebalancing among diversified asset classes. We select an expected asset return that is supported by this model.
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Defined Contribution Plans
We have defined contribution plans that cover most of our employees. Our contributions to these plans are based on employees’ compensation and/or a partial match of employee contributions to the plans. Our contributions to these defined contribution plans were $80$83 million, $77$82 million, and $74$80 million for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018,2020, respectively.
15.13. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
Overview
Under our 2020 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (the 2020 OSIP), various stock and stock-based awards may be granted to employees, non-employee directors, and third-party service providers. The 2020 OSIP permits grants of (i) restricted stock and restricted stock units; (ii) stock options (including incentive and non-qualified stock options); (iii) stock appreciation rights; (iv) performance awards of cash, stock, or other securities; and (v) other stock-based awards (e.g., stock unit awards). Awards under the 2020 OSIP are granted at the discretion of our compensationHuman Resources and Compensation Committee, a committee of our Board, and may be subject to vesting or performance periods, performance goals, or other restrictions. The 2020 OSIP was approved by our stockholders on April 30, 2020, and as of such date, any shares of common stock that were available to be awarded under the 2011 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (the 2011 OSIP) became available for issuance under the 2020 OSIP and any shares of common stock subject to awards under the 2011 OSIP outstanding as of April 30, 2020, that are subsequently forfeited, terminated, canceled or rescinded, settled in cash in lieu of common stock, exchanged for awards not involving common stock, or expire unexercised also become available for issuance under the 2020 OSIP. No future awards will be made under the 2011 OSIP. As of December 31, 2020, 14,787,2132022, 12,747,181 shares of our common stock remained available to be awarded under the 2020 OSIP.
The following table reflects activity related to our stock-based compensation arrangements (in millions):
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Stock-based compensation expense: | Stock-based compensation expense: | | | | | | Stock-based compensation expense: | | | | | |
Restricted stock | Restricted stock | $ | 63 | | | $ | 64 | | | $ | 63 | | Restricted stock | $ | 67 | | | $ | 65 | | | $ | 63 | |
Performance awards | Performance awards | 15 | | | 23 | | | 22 | | Performance awards | 32 | | | 21 | | | 15 | |
Stock options and other awards | Stock options and other awards | 2 | | | 2 | | | 1 | | Stock options and other awards | 4 | | | 2 | | | 2 | |
Total stock-based compensation expense | Total stock-based compensation expense | $ | 80 | | | $ | 89 | | | $ | 86 | | Total stock-based compensation expense | $ | 103 | | | $ | 88 | | | $ | 80 | |
Tax benefit recognized on stock-based compensation expense | Tax benefit recognized on stock-based compensation expense | $ | 13 | | | $ | 19 | | | $ | 18 | | Tax benefit recognized on stock-based compensation expense | $ | 15 | | | $ | 13 | | | $ | 13 | |
Tax benefit realized for tax deductions resulting from exercises and vestings | Tax benefit realized for tax deductions resulting from exercises and vestings | 1 | | | 17 | | | 32 | | Tax benefit realized for tax deductions resulting from exercises and vestings | 2 | | | 1 | | | 1 | |
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Restricted Stock
Restricted stock is a discussion of our most significant stock-based compensation arrangement.
Restricted Stock
Employees, non-employee directors, and third-party service providers are eligible to receive restricted stock, which vests in accordance with individual written agreements between the participants and us, usually in equal annual installments over a period of three years beginning one year after the date of
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grant. The fair value of each share of restricted stock is equal to the market price of our common stock. A summary of the status of our restricted stock awards is presented in the following table:
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Number of Shares | | Weighted- Average Grant-Date Fair Value Per Share |
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Number of Shares | | Weighted- Average Grant-Date Fair Value Per Share |
Nonvested shares as of January 1, 2020 | 1,091,854 | | | $ | 93.38 | | |
Nonvested shares as of January 1, 2022 | | Nonvested shares as of January 1, 2022 | 1,458,191 | | | $ | 70.93 | |
Granted | Granted | 1,126,483 | | | 55.62 | | Granted | 575,074 | | | 112.88 | |
Vested | Vested | (770,727) | | | 82.80 | | Vested | (835,828) | | | 76.54 | |
Forfeited | Forfeited | (9,698) | | | 93.73 | | Forfeited | (15,260) | | | 72.52 | |
Nonvested shares as of December 31, 2020 | 1,437,912 | | | 69.47 | | |
Nonvested shares as of December 31, 2022 | | Nonvested shares as of December 31, 2022 | 1,182,177 | | | 87.36 | |
As of December 31, 2020,2022, there was $57$54 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to outstanding unvested restricted stock awards, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately two years.
The following table reflects activity related to our restricted stock:
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Weighted-average grant-date fair value per share of restricted stock granted | Weighted-average grant-date fair value per share of restricted stock granted | $ | 55.62 | | | $ | 98.75 | | | $ | 92.12 | | Weighted-average grant-date fair value per share of restricted stock granted | $ | 112.88 | | | $ | 77.71 | | | $ | 55.62 | |
Fair value of restricted stock vested (in millions) | Fair value of restricted stock vested (in millions) | 35 | | | 74 | | | 80 | | Fair value of restricted stock vested (in millions) | 99 | | | 59 | | | 35 | |
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16.14. INCOME TAXES
Income Statement Components
Income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) was as follows (in millions):
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
U.S. operations | U.S. operations | $ | (2,072) | | | $ | 2,496 | | | $ | 3,168 | | U.S. operations | $ | 11,716 | | | $ | 1,023 | | | $ | (2,072) | |
International operations | 62 | | | 990 | | | 1,064 | | |
Foreign operations | | Foreign operations | 3,591 | | | 520 | | | 62 | |
Income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) | Income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) | $ | (2,010) | | | $ | 3,486 | | | $ | 4,232 | | Income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) | $ | 15,307 | | | $ | 1,543 | | | $ | (2,010) | |
Statutory income tax rates applicable to the countries in which we operate during each of the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 20182020 were as follows:
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U.S. | 21 | % |
Canada | 15 | % |
U.K. | 19 | % |
Ireland | 13 | % |
Peru | 30 | % |
Mexico | 30 | % |
The following is a reconciliation of income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying statutory income tax rates to actual income tax expense (benefit) (in millions):
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| U.S. | | International | | Total |
| Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent |
Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | | | | | | | |
Income tax benefit at statutory rates | $ | (435) | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | (10) | | | (16.1) | % | | $ | (445) | | | 22.1 | % |
U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense (benefit), net of federal income tax effect | (33) | | | 1.6 | % | | 27 | | | 43.5 | % | | (6) | | | 0.3 | % |
Permanent differences | (23) | | | 1.1 | % | | 15 | | | 24.2 | % | | (8) | | | 0.4 | % |
CARES Act (a) | (360) | | | 17.4 | % | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (360) | | | 17.9 | % |
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Lapse of federal statute of limitations | (39) | | | 1.8 | % | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (39) | | | 1.9 | % |
Change in tax law | 0 | | | 0 | | | 21 | | | 33.9 | % | | 21 | | | (1.0) | % |
Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (66) | | | 3.2 | % | | (8) | | | (12.9) | % | | (74) | | | 3.7 | % |
Other, net | 7 | | | (0.3) | % | | 1 | | | 1.6 | % | | 8 | | | (0.4) | % |
Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | (949) | | | 45.8 | % | | $ | 46 | | | 74.2 | % | | $ | (903) | | | 44.9 | % |
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| U.S. | | Foreign | | Total |
| Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | |
Income tax expense at statutory rates | $ | 2,460 | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | 611 | | | 17.0 | % | | $ | 3,071 | | | 20.1 | % |
U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense, net of federal income tax effect | 182 | | | 1.6 | % | | 255 | | | 7.1 | % | | 437 | | | 2.8 | % |
Permanent differences | (61) | | | (0.5) | % | | (16) | | | (0.5) | % | | (77) | | | (0.5) | % |
GILTI tax | 413 | | | 3.5 | % | | — | | | — | | | 413 | | | 2.7 | % |
Foreign tax credits | (396) | | | (3.4) | % | | — | | | — | | | (396) | | | (2.6) | % |
Repatriation withholding tax | 51 | | | 0.4 | % | | — | | | — | | | 51 | | | 0.3 | % |
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Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (78) | | | (0.7) | % | | 25 | | | 0.7 | % | | (53) | | | (0.3) | % |
Other, net | (27) | | | (0.2) | % | | 9 | | | 0.3 | % | | (18) | | | (0.1) | % |
Income tax expense | $ | 2,544 | | | 21.7 | % | | $ | 884 | | | 24.6 | % | | $ | 3,428 | | | 22.4 | % |
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| | | U.S. | | International | | Total | | U.S. | | Foreign | | Total |
| | Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent |
Year ended December 31, 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Year ended December 31, 2021 | | Year ended December 31, 2021 | | | | | | | | | | | |
Income tax expense at statutory rates | Income tax expense at statutory rates | $ | 524 | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | 147 | | | 14.8 | % | | $ | 671 | | | 19.2 | % | Income tax expense at statutory rates | $ | 215 | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | 73 | | | 14.0 | % | | $ | 288 | | | 18.7 | % |
U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense, net of federal income tax effect | U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense, net of federal income tax effect | 16 | | | 0.7 | % | | 88 | | | 8.9 | % | | 104 | | | 3.0 | % | U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense, net of federal income tax effect | 16 | | | 1.6 | % | | 53 | | | 10.2 | % | | 69 | | | 4.5 | % |
Permanent differences | Permanent differences | (36) | | | (1.5) | % | | 10 | | | 1.0 | % | | (26) | | | (0.7) | % | Permanent differences | (34) | | | (3.3) | % | | (14) | | | (2.7) | % | | (48) | | | (3.1) | % |
GILTI tax (b) | 115 | | | 4.6 | % | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 115 | | | 3.3 | % | |
Changes in tax law (a) | | Changes in tax law (a) | (10) | | | (1.0) | % | | 74 | | | 14.2 | % | | 64 | | | 4.1 | % |
CARES Act (b) | | CARES Act (b) | (56) | | | (5.5) | % | | — | | | — | | | (56) | | | (3.6) | % |
GILTI tax | | GILTI tax | 125 | | | 12.2 | % | | — | | | — | | | 125 | | | 8.1 | % |
| Foreign tax credits | Foreign tax credits | (95) | | | (3.8) | % | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (95) | | | (2.7) | % | Foreign tax credits | (103) | | | (10.1) | % | | — | | | — | | | (103) | | | (6.7) | % |
Repatriation withholding tax | 45 | | | 1.8 | % | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 45 | | | 1.3 | % | |
Settlements | | Settlements | (22) | | | (2.1) | % | | — | | | — | | | (22) | | | (1.4) | % |
Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (77) | | | (3.1) | % | | 2 | | | 0.2 | % | | (75) | | | (2.2) | % | Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (74) | | | (7.2) | % | | 30 | | | 5.8 | % | | (44) | | | (2.9) | % |
Other, net | Other, net | (36) | | | (1.4) | % | | (1) | | | (0.1) | % | | (37) | | | (1.1) | % | Other, net | (7) | | | (0.7) | % | | (11) | | | (2.1) | % | | (18) | | | (1.2) | % |
Income tax expense | Income tax expense | $ | 456 | | | 18.3 | % | | $ | 246 | | | 24.8 | % | | $ | 702 | | | 20.1 | % | Income tax expense | $ | 50 | | | 4.9 | % | | $ | 205 | | | 39.4 | % | | $ | 255 | | | 16.5 | % |
| Year ended December 31, 2018 | | |
Income tax expense at statutory rates | $ | 665 | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | 163 | | | 15.3 | % | | $ | 828 | | | 19.6 | % | |
U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense, net of federal income tax effect | 44 | | | 1.4 | % | | 80 | | | 7.5 | % | | 124 | | | 2.9 | % | |
Year ended December 31, 2020 | | Year ended December 31, 2020 | |
Income tax benefit at statutory rates | | Income tax benefit at statutory rates | $ | (435) | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | (10) | | | (16.1) | % | | $ | (445) | | | 22.1 | % |
U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense (benefit), net of federal income tax effect | | U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense (benefit), net of federal income tax effect | (33) | | | 1.6 | % | | 27 | | | 43.5 | % | | (6) | | | 0.3 | % |
Permanent differences | Permanent differences | (9) | | | (0.3) | % | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (9) | | | (0.2) | % | Permanent differences | (23) | | | 1.1 | % | | 15 | | | 24.2 | % | | (8) | | | 0.4 | % |
GILTI tax (b) | 67 | | | 2.1 | % | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 67 | | | 1.6 | % | |
Foreign tax credits | (50) | | | (1.6) | % | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (50) | | | (1.2) | % | |
Effects of Tax Reform (b) | (12) | | | (0.4) | % | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (12) | | | (0.3) | % | |
CARES Act (b) | | CARES Act (b) | (360) | | | 17.4 | % | | — | | | — | | | (360) | | | 17.9 | % |
| Lapse of federal statute of limitations | | Lapse of federal statute of limitations | (39) | | | 1.8 | % | | — | | | — | | | (39) | | | 1.9 | % |
| Change in tax law | | Change in tax law | — | | | — | % | | 21 | | | 33.9 | % | | 21 | | | (1.0) | % |
Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (49) | | | (1.5) | % | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (49) | | | (1.2) | % | Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (66) | | | 3.2 | % | | (8) | | | (12.9) | % | | (74) | | | 3.7 | % |
Other, net | Other, net | (23) | | | (0.7) | % | | 3 | | | 0.3 | % | | (20) | | | (0.5) | % | Other, net | 7 | | | (0.3) | % | | 1 | | | 1.6 | % | | 8 | | | (0.4) | % |
Income tax expense | $ | 633 | | | 20.0 | % | | $ | 246 | | | 23.1 | % | | $ | 879 | | | 20.7 | % | |
Income tax expense (benefit) | | Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | (949) | | | 45.8 | % | | $ | 46 | | | 74.2 | % | | $ | (903) | | | 44.9 | % |
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(a)During the three months ended June 30, 2021, certain statutory income tax rate changes (primarily an increase in the U.K. rate from 19 percent to 25 percent effective in 2023) were enacted that resulted in the remeasurement of our deferred tax liabilities and related deferred income tax expense.
(b)See “CARES Act” on page 119123 for a discussion of significant changes in tax law in the U.SU.S. that were enacted in 2020. (b)Relates to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (Tax Reform), which, among other provisions, resulted in a minimum tax on the income of international subsidiaries (the GILTI tax).
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Components of income tax expense (benefit) were as follows (in millions):
| | | | U.S. | | Foreign | | Total |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | | Year ended December 31, 2022 | | | | | |
Current: | | Current: | |
Country | | Country | $ | 2,147 | | | $ | 766 | | | $ | 2,913 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | | U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 153 | | | 312 | | | 465 | |
Total current | | Total current | 2,300 | | | 1,078 | | | 3,378 | |
Deferred: | | Deferred: | | | | | |
Country | | Country | 164 | | | (138) | | | 26 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | | U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 80 | | | (56) | | | 24 | |
Total deferred | | Total deferred | 244 | | | (194) | | | 50 | |
Income tax expense | | Income tax expense | $ | 2,544 | | | $ | 884 | | | $ | 3,428 | |
| Year ended December 31, 2021 | | Year ended December 31, 2021 | |
Current: | | Current: | |
Country | | Country | $ | 68 | | | $ | 215 | | | $ | 283 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | | U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 1 | | | 97 | | | 98 | |
Total current | | Total current | 69 | | | 312 | | | 381 | |
Deferred: | | Deferred: | | | | | |
Country | | Country | 5 | | | (63) | | | (58) | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | | U.S. state / Canadian provincial | (24) | | | (44) | | | (68) | |
Total deferred | | Total deferred | (19) | | | (107) | | | (126) | |
Income tax expense | | Income tax expense | $ | 50 | | | $ | 205 | | | $ | 255 | |
| | U.S. | | International | | Total | | | | | | |
Year ended December 31, 2020 | Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | | Year ended December 31, 2020 | |
Current: | Current: | | Current: | |
Country | Country | $ | (1,033) | | | $ | (34) | | | $ | (1,067) | | Country | $ | (1,033) | | | $ | (34) | | | $ | (1,067) | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 9 | | | (3) | | | 6 | | U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 9 | | | (3) | | | 6 | |
Total current | Total current | (1,024) | | | (37) | | | (1,061) | | Total current | (1,024) | | | (37) | | | (1,061) | |
Deferred: | Deferred: | | | | | | Deferred: | | | | | |
Country | Country | 126 | | | 53 | | | 179 | | Country | 126 | | | 53 | | | 179 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | U.S. state / Canadian provincial | (51) | | | 30 | | | (21) | | U.S. state / Canadian provincial | (51) | | | 30 | | | (21) | |
Total deferred | Total deferred | 75 | | | 83 | | | 158 | | Total deferred | 75 | | | 83 | | | 158 | |
Income tax expense (benefit) | Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | (949) | | | $ | 46 | | | $ | (903) | | Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | (949) | | | $ | 46 | | | $ | (903) | |
| Year ended December 31, 2019 | | |
Current: | | |
Country | $ | 145 | | | $ | 186 | | | $ | 331 | | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 37 | | | 100 | | | 137 | | |
Total current | 182 | | | 286 | | | 468 | | |
Deferred: | | | | | | |
Country | 290 | | | (28) | | | 262 | | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | (16) | | | (12) | | | (28) | | |
Total deferred | 274 | | | (40) | | | 234 | | |
Income tax expense | $ | 456 | | | $ | 246 | | | $ | 702 | | |
| Year ended December 31, 2018 | | |
Current: | | |
Country | $ | 432 | | | $ | 141 | | | $ | 573 | | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 37 | | | 66 | | | 103 | | |
Total current | 469 | | | 207 | | | 676 | | |
Deferred: | | | | | | |
Country | 145 | | | 25 | | | 170 | | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 19 | | | 14 | | | 33 | | |
Total deferred | 164 | | | 39 | | | 203 | | |
Income tax expense | $ | 633 | | | $ | 246 | | | $ | 879 | | |
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Income Taxes Paid (Refunded)
Income taxes paid to (received from) U.S. and internationalforeign taxing authorities were as follows (in millions):
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, | |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | |
U.S. | U.S. | $ | 130 | | | $ | (298) | | (a) | $ | 1,016 | | U.S. | $ | 2,396 | | | $ | (878) | | (a) | $ | 130 | | |
International | 73 | | | 182 | | | 345 | | |
Foreign | | Foreign | 892 | | | 36 | | | 73 | | |
Income taxes paid (refunded), net | Income taxes paid (refunded), net | $ | 203 | | | $ | (116) | | | $ | 1,361 | | Income taxes paid (refunded), net | $ | 3,288 | | | $ | (842) | | | $ | 203 | | |
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(a)This amount includes a refund of $348$962 million including interest, that we received related to the settlement of the combined audit of our U.S. federal income tax returnsreturn for 2010 and 2011. See “Tax Returns Under Audit – U.S. Federal” on page 119.2020.
Deferred Income Tax Assets and Liabilities
The tax effects of significant temporary differences representing deferred income tax assets and liabilities were as follows (in millions):
| | | December 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Deferred income tax assets: | Deferred income tax assets: | | | | Deferred income tax assets: | | | |
Tax credit carryforwards | Tax credit carryforwards | $ | 681 | | | $ | 683 | | Tax credit carryforwards | $ | 660 | | | $ | 679 | |
Net operating losses (NOLs) | 678 | | | 582 | | |
NOLs | | NOLs | 642 | | | 697 | |
Inventories | Inventories | 70 | | | 141 | | Inventories | 326 | | | 217 | |
| Compensation and employee benefit liabilities | Compensation and employee benefit liabilities | 199 | | | 213 | | Compensation and employee benefit liabilities | 44 | | | 123 | |
Environmental liabilities | Environmental liabilities | 64 | | | 69 | | Environmental liabilities | 57 | | | 53 | |
Other | Other | 128 | | | 156 | | Other | 186 | | | 149 | |
Total deferred income tax assets | Total deferred income tax assets | 1,820 | | | 1,844 | | Total deferred income tax assets | 1,915 | | | 1,918 | |
Valuation allowance | Valuation allowance | (1,223) | | | (1,200) | | Valuation allowance | (1,234) | | | (1,262) | |
Net deferred income tax assets | Net deferred income tax assets | 597 | | | 644 | | Net deferred income tax assets | 681 | | | 656 | |
| Deferred income tax liabilities: | Deferred income tax liabilities: | | Deferred income tax liabilities: | | | |
Property, plant, and equipment | Property, plant, and equipment | 4,895 | | | 4,924 | | Property, plant, and equipment | 4,708 | | | 4,866 | |
Deferred turnaround costs | Deferred turnaround costs | 302 | | | 331 | | Deferred turnaround costs | 369 | | | 308 | |
Inventories | Inventories | 269 | | | 217 | | Inventories | 234 | | | 191 | |
Investments | Investments | 171 | | | 122 | | Investments | 431 | | | 268 | |
Other | Other | 235 | | | 153 | | Other | 156 | | | 233 | |
Total deferred income tax liabilities | Total deferred income tax liabilities | 5,872 | | | 5,747 | | Total deferred income tax liabilities | 5,898 | | | 5,866 | |
Net deferred income tax liabilities | Net deferred income tax liabilities | $ | 5,275 | | | $ | 5,103 | | Net deferred income tax liabilities | $ | 5,217 | | | $ | 5,210 | |
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
We had the following income tax credit and loss carryforwards as of December 31, 20202022 (in millions):
| | | Amount | | Expiration | | Amount | | Expiration |
U.S. state income tax credits (gross amount) | U.S. state income tax credits (gross amount) | $ | 86 | | | 2021 through 2033 | U.S. state income tax credits (gross amount) | $ | 73 | | | 2023 through 2033 |
U.S. state income tax credits (gross amount) | U.S. state income tax credits (gross amount) | 17 | | | Unlimited | U.S. state income tax credits (gross amount) | 5 | | | Unlimited |
U.S. foreign tax credits | U.S. foreign tax credits | 598 | | | 2027 | U.S. foreign tax credits | 598 | | | 2027 |
U.S. state income tax NOLs (gross amount) | U.S. state income tax NOLs (gross amount) | 12,333 | | | 2021 through 2040 | U.S. state income tax NOLs (gross amount) | 12,002 | | | 2023 through 2040 |
U.S. state income tax NOLs (gross amount) | U.S. state income tax NOLs (gross amount) | 34 | | | Unlimited | U.S. state income tax NOLs (gross amount) | 390 | | | Unlimited |
International NOLs (gross amount) | 20 | | | 2021 through 2030 | |
International NOLs (gross amount) | 120 | | | Unlimited | |
| Foreign NOLs (gross amount) | | Foreign NOLs (gross amount) | 9 | | | Unlimited |
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We have recorded a valuation allowance as of December 31, 2020 2022and 2019 2021due to uncertainties related to our ability to utilize some of our deferred income tax assets associated with our U.S. foreign tax credits, certain U.S. state income tax credits, certain foreign deferred tax assets, and certain NOLs before they expire. The valuation allowance is based on our estimates of future taxable income in the various jurisdictions in which we operate and the period over which deferred income tax assets will be recoverable. The valuation allowance increaseddecreased by $23$28 million in 20202022 primarily due to an increase in U.S. state income tax NOLs.
As of December 31, 2020, the cumulative undistributed earnings of our international subsidiaries that is considered permanently reinvested in those countries were approximately $3.2 billion. We are able to distribute cash via a dividend from our international subsidiaries with a full dividend received deductionincreases in the U.S. However, there may berealizability of assets and NOLs in a cost to repatriate the undistributed earnings of certain of our international subsidiaries to us, including, but not limited to, withholding taxes imposed by certain international jurisdictions and U.S. state income taxes. It is not practicable to estimate the amount of additional tax that would be payable on those earnings, if distributed.foreign jurisdiction.
Unrecognized Tax Benefits
ChangeOther Disclosures
“Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest” is comprised as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Interest and debt expense | $ | 619 | | | $ | 651 | | | $ | 638 | |
Less: Capitalized interest | 57 | | | 48 | | | 75 | |
Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | $ | 562 | | | $ | 603 | | | $ | 563 | |
Our credit facilities and other debt arrangements contain various customary restrictive covenants, including cross-default and cross-acceleration clauses.
Principal maturities for our debt obligations as of December 31, 2022 were as follows (in millions):
| | | | | |
2023 (a) | $ | 861 | |
2024 | 167 | |
2025 | 441 | |
2026 | 672 | |
2027 | 578 | |
Thereafter | 6,606 | |
Net unamortized debt issuance costs and other | (84) | |
Total debt | $ | 9,241 | |
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(a)Maturities for 2023 include the DGD Revolver, the DGD Loan Agreement, and the IEnova Revolver.
9. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Purchase Obligations
We have various purchase obligations under certain crude oil and other feedstock supply arrangements, industrial gas supply arrangements (such as hydrogen supply arrangements), natural gas supply arrangements, and various throughput, transportation, and terminaling agreements. We enter into these contracts to ensure an adequate supply of feedstock and utilities and adequate storage capacity to operate our refineries and ethanol plants. Substantially all of our purchase obligations are based on market prices or adjustments based on market indices. Certain of these purchase obligations include fixed or minimum volume requirements, while others are based on our usage requirements. None of these obligations is associated with suppliers’ financing arrangements. These purchase obligations are not reflected as liabilities.
Self-Insurance
We are self-insured for certain medical and dental, workers’ compensation, automobile liability, general liability, and other third-party liability claims up to applicable retention limits. Liabilities are accrued for self-insured claims, or when estimated losses exceed coverage limits, and when sufficient information is
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
available to reasonably estimate the amount of the loss. These liabilities are included in Unrecognizedaccrued expenses and other long-term liabilities.
10. EQUITY
Share Activity
Activity in the number of shares of common stock and treasury stock was as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Common Stock | | Treasury Stock |
Balance as of December 31, 2019 | 673 | | | (264) | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | 1 | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | — | | | (2) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2020 | 673 | | | (265) | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | 1 | |
| | | |
Balance as of December 31, 2021 | 673 | | | (264) | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | 1 | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | — | | | (38) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2022 | 673 | | | (301) | |
Preferred Stock
We have 20 million shares of preferred stock authorized with a par value of $0.01 per share. No shares of preferred stock were outstanding as of December 31, 2022 or 2021.
Treasury Stock
We purchase shares of our outstanding common stock as authorized by our board of directors (Board), including under share purchase programs (described below) and with respect to our employee stock-based compensation plans.
On January 23, 2018, our Board authorized our purchase of up to $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, and we completed all authorized share purchases under that program during the second quarter of 2022. On July 7, 2022, we announced that our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, and we completed all authorized share purchases under that program during the fourth quarter of 2022. On October 26, 2022, our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date (the October 2022 Program). As of December 31, 2022, we had$2.3 billionremaining available for purchase under the October 2022 Program. On February 23, 2023, our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, which is in addition to the amount remaining under the October 2022 Program.
Common Stock Dividends
On January 31, 2023, our Board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.02 per common share payable on March 16, 2023 to holders of record at the close of business on February 14, 2023.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Income Tax Effects Related to Components of Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
The tax effects allocated to each component of other comprehensive income (loss) were as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Before-Tax Amount | | Tax Expense (Benefit) | | Net Amount |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | (613) | | | $ | (7) | | | $ | (606) | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Net actuarial gain arising during the year | 244 | | | 57 | | | 187 | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 52 | | | 12 | | | 40 | |
Prior service credit | (22) | | | (5) | | | (17) | |
Settlement loss | 61 | | | 13 | | | 48 | |
| | | | | |
Net gain on pension and other postretirement benefits | 335 | | | 77 | | | 258 | |
Derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges: | | | | | |
Net loss arising during the year | (292) | | | (32) | | | (260) | |
Net loss reclassified into income | 286 | | | 32 | | | 254 | |
Net loss on cash flow hedges | (6) | | | — | | | (6) | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
Other comprehensive loss | $ | (284) | | | $ | 70 | | | $ | (354) | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Before-Tax Amount | | Tax Expense (Benefit) | | Net Amount |
Year ended December 31, 2021 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | (47) | | | $ | — | | | $ | (47) | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
Gain arising during the year related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial gain | 317 | | | 69 | | | 248 | |
| | | | | |
Prior service cost | (4) | | | (1) | | | (3) | |
| | | | | |
Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 80 | | | 18 | | | 62 | |
Prior service credit | (25) | | | (6) | | | (19) | |
Settlement loss | 8 | | | 2 | | | 6 | |
Effect of exchange rates | 2 | | | — | | | 2 | |
Net gain on pension and other postretirement benefits | 378 | | | 82 | | | 296 | |
Derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges: | | | | | |
Net loss arising during the year | (48) | | | (5) | | | (43) | |
Net loss reclassified into income | 46 | | | 5 | | | 41 | |
Net loss on cash flow hedges | (2) | | | — | | | (2) | |
Other comprehensive income | $ | 329 | | | $ | 82 | | | $ | 247 | |
| | | | | |
Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | 161 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 161 | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
Loss arising during the year related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | (128) | | | (26) | | | (102) | |
| | | | | |
Prior service cost | (5) | | | (1) | | | (4) | |
| | | | | |
Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 74 | | | 17 | | | 57 | |
Prior service credit | (26) | | | (6) | | | (20) | |
Settlement loss | 5 | | | 1 | | | 4 | |
| | | | | |
Net loss on pension and other postretirement benefits | (80) | | | (15) | | | (65) | |
Derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges: | | | | | |
Net gain arising during the year | 36 | | | 3 | | | 33 | |
Net gain reclassified into income | (34) | | | (4) | | | (30) | |
Net gain on cash flow hedges | 2 | | | (1) | | | 3 | |
Other comprehensive income | $ | 83 | | | $ | (16) | | | $ | 99 | |
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
Changes in accumulated other comprehensive loss by component, net of tax, were as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment | | Defined Benefit Plans Items | | Gains (Losses) on Cash Flow Hedges | | | | Total |
Balance as of December 31, 2019 | $ | (676) | | | $ | (672) | | | $ | (3) | | | | | $ | (1,351) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | 161 | | | (106) | | | 14 | | | | | 69 | |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | — | | | 41 | | | (13) | | | | | 28 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) | 161 | | | (65) | | | 1 | | | | | 97 | |
Balance as of December 31, 2020 | (515) | | | (737) | | | (2) | | | | | (1,254) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | (47) | | | 245 | | | (21) | | | | | 177 | |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | — | | | 49 | | | 18 | | | | | 67 | |
Effect of exchange rates | — | | | 2 | | | — | | | | | 2 | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) | (47) | | | 296 | | | (3) | | | | | 246 | |
Balance as of December 31, 2021 | (562) | | | (441) | | | (5) | | | | | (1,008) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | (606) | | | 187 | | | (114) | | | | | (533) | |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | — | | | 71 | | | 111 | | | | | 182 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) | (606) | | | 258 | | | (3) | | | | | (351) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2022 | $ | (1,168) | | | $ | (183) | | | $ | (8) | | | | | $ | (1,359) | |
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Gains (losses) reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive loss and into net income (loss) were as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Details about Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss Components | | | | Affected Line Item in the Statement of Income |
| Year Ended December 31, | |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | |
Amortization of items related to defined benefit pension plans: | | | | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | | $ | (52) | | | $ | (80) | | | $ | (74) | | | (a) Other income, net |
Prior service credit | | 22 | | | 25 | | | 26 | | | (a) Other income, net |
Settlement loss | | (61) | | | (8) | | | (5) | | | (a) Other income, net |
| | (91) | | | (63) | | | (53) | | | Total before tax |
| | 20 | | | 14 | | | 12 | | | Tax benefit |
| | $ | (71) | | | $ | (49) | | | $ | (41) | | | Net of tax |
| | | | | | | | |
Gains (losses) on cash flow hedges: | | | | | | | | |
Commodity contracts | | $ | (286) | | | $ | (46) | | | $ | 34 | | | Revenues |
| | (286) | | | (46) | | | 34 | | | Total before tax |
| | 32 | | | 5 | | | (4) | | | Tax (expense) benefit |
| | $ | (254) | | | $ | (41) | | | $ | 30 | | | Net of tax |
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Total reclassifications for the year | | $ | (325) | | | $ | (90) | | | $ | (11) | | | Net of tax |
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(a)These accumulated other comprehensive loss components are included in the computation of net periodic benefit cost, as discussed in Note 12.
11. VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES
Consolidated VIEs
In the normal course of business, we have financial interests in certain entities that have been determined to be VIEs. We consolidate a VIE when we have a variable interest in an entity for which we are the primary beneficiary such that we have (i) the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the VIE’s economic performance and (ii) the obligation to absorb losses of or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE. In order to make this determination, we evaluated our contractual arrangements with the VIE, including arrangements for the use of assets, purchases of products and services, debt, equity, or management of operating activities.
The following discussion summarizes our involvement with the consolidated VIEs:
•DGD is a joint venture with a subsidiary of Darling that owns and operates two plants that process waste and renewable feedstocks (predominately animal fats, used cooking oils, and inedible distillers corn oils) into renewable diesel and renewable naphtha. One plant is located next to our St. Charles Refinery (the DGD St. Charles Plant) and the other plant is the DGD
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Port Arthur Plant. Our significant agreements with DGD include an operations agreement that outlines our responsibilities as operator of both plants.
As operator, we operate the plants and perform certain day-to-day operating and management functions for DGD as an independent contractor. The operations agreement provides us (as operator) with certain power to direct the activities that most significantly impact DGD’s economic performance. Because this agreement conveys such power to us and is separate from our ownership rights, we determined that DGD was a VIE. For this reason and because we hold a 50 percent ownership interest that provides us with significant economic rights and obligations, we determined that we are the primary beneficiary of DGD. DGD has risk associated with its operations because it generates revenues from external customers.
•Central Mexico Terminals is a collective group of three subsidiaries of Infraestructura Energetica Nova, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (IEnova), a Mexican company and indirect subsidiary of Sempra Energy, a U.S. public company. We have terminaling agreements with Central Mexico Terminals that represent variable interests because we have determined them to be finance leases due to our exclusive use of the terminals. Although we do not have an ownership interest in the entities that own each of the three terminals, the finance leases convey to us (i) the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of all three terminals and (ii) the ability to influence the benefits received or the losses incurred by the terminals because of our use of the terminals. As a result, we determined each of the entities was a VIE and that we are the primary beneficiary of each. Substantially all of Central Mexico Terminals’ revenues will be derived from us; therefore, we believe there is limited risk to us associated with Central Mexico Terminals’ operations.
•We also have financial interests in other entities that have been determined to be VIEs because the entities’ contractual arrangements transfer the power to us to direct the activities that most significantly impact their economic performance or reduce the exposure to operational variability and risk of loss created by the entity that otherwise would be held exclusively by the equity owners. Furthermore, we determined that we are the primary beneficiary of these VIEs because (i) certain contractual arrangements (exclusive of our ownership rights) provide us with the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of these entities and/or (ii) our 50 percent ownership interests provide us with significant economic rights and obligations.
The assets of the consolidated VIEs can only be used to settle their own obligations and the creditors of the consolidated VIEs have no recourse to our other assets. We generally do not provide financial guarantees to the VIEs. Although we have provided credit facilities to some of the VIEs in support of their construction or acquisition activities, these transactions are eliminated in consolidation. Our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows are impacted by the performance of the consolidated VIEs, net of intercompany eliminations, to the extent of our ownership interest in each VIE.
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The following table presents summarized balance sheet information for the significant assets and liabilities of the consolidated VIEs, which are included in our balance sheets (in millions):
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| DGD | | Central Mexico Terminals | | Other | | Total |
December 31, 2022 | | | | | | | |
Assets | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 133 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 16 | | | $ | 149 | |
Other current assets | 1,106 | | | 7 | | | 32 | | | 1,145 | |
Property, plant, and equipment, net | 3,785 | | | 681 | | | 79 | | | 4,545 | |
Liabilities | | | | | | | |
Current liabilities, including current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | 626 | | | $ | 737 | | | $ | 21 | | | $ | 1,384 | |
Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | 693 | | | — | | | — | | | 693 | |
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Assets | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 21 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 15 | | | $ | 36 | |
Other current assets | 558 | | | 10 | | | 13 | | | 581 | |
Property, plant, and equipment, net | 2,629 | | | 676 | | | 91 | | | 3,396 | |
Liabilities | | | | | | | |
Current liabilities, including current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | 398 | | | $ | 729 | | | $ | 9 | | | $ | 1,136 | |
Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | 264 | | | — | | | 20 | | | 284 | |
Nonconsolidated VIEs
We hold variable interests in VIEs that have not been consolidated because we are not considered the primary beneficiary. These nonconsolidated VIEs are not material to our financial position or results of operations and are accounted for as equity investments.
On April 19, 2021, we sold a 24.99 percent membership interest in MVP Terminalling, LLC (MVP), a nonconsolidated joint venture, for $270 million that resulted in a gain of $62 million, which is included in “other income, net” for the year ended December 31, 2021. MVP owns and operates a marine terminal (the MVP Terminal) located on the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas. We retained a 25.01 percent membership interest in MVP.
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12. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
Defined Benefit Plans
We have defined benefit pension plans, some of which are subject to collective bargaining agreements, that cover most of our employees. These plans provide eligible employees with retirement income based primarily on years of service and compensation during specific periods under final average pay and cash balance formulas. We fund all of our pension plans as required by local regulations. In the U.S., all qualified pension plans are subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act’s minimum funding standard. We typically do not fund or fully fund U.S. nonqualified and certain foreign pension plans that are not subject to funding requirements because contributions to these pension plans may be less economic and investment returns may be less attractive than our other investment alternatives.
We also provide health care and life insurance benefits for certain retired employees through our postretirement benefit plans. Most of our employees become eligible for these benefits if, while still working for us, they reach normal retirement age or take early retirement. These plans are unfunded, and retired employees share the cost with us. Individuals who became our employees as a result of an acquisition became eligible for postretirement benefits under our plans as determined by the terms of the relevant acquisition agreement.
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The changes in benefit obligation related to all of our defined benefit plans, the changes in fair value of plan assets(a), and the funded status of our defined benefit plans as of and for the years ended below were as follows (in millions):
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| December 31, | | December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Changes in benefit obligation | | | | | | | |
Benefit obligation as of beginning of year | $ | 3,463 | | | $ | 3,625 | | | $ | 347 | | | $ | 358 | |
Service cost | 152 | | | 161 | | | 6 | | | 7 | |
Interest cost | 85 | | | 73 | | | 8 | | | 7 | |
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Participant contributions | — | | | — | | | 13 | | | 13 | |
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Benefits paid | (366) | | | (284) | | | (29) | | | (29) | |
Actuarial gain | (882) | | | (111) | | | (86) | | | (9) | |
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Foreign currency exchange rate changes | (39) | | | (1) | | | (1) | | | — | |
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Benefit obligation as of end of year | $ | 2,413 | | | $ | 3,463 | | | $ | 258 | | | $ | 347 | |
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Fair value of plan assets as of beginning of year | $ | 3,303 | | | $ | 3,067 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Actual return on plan assets | (532) | | | 389 | | | — | | | — | |
Company contributions | 120 | | | 135 | | | 16 | | | 16 | |
Participant contributions | — | | | — | | | 13 | | | 13 | |
Benefits paid | (366) | | | (284) | | | (29) | | | (29) | |
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Foreign currency exchange rate changes | (40) | | | (4) | | | — | | | — | |
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Fair value of plan assets as of end of year | $ | 2,485 | | | $ | 3,303 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
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Reconciliation of funded status (a) | | | | | | | |
Fair value of plan assets as of end of year | $ | 2,485 | | | $ | 3,303 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Less: Benefit obligation as of end of year | 2,413 | | | 3,463 | | | 258 | | | 347 | |
Funded status as of end of year | $ | 72 | | | $ | (160) | | | $ | (258) | | | $ | (347) | |
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Accumulated benefit obligation | $ | 2,271 | | | $ | 3,238 | | | n/a | | n/a |
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(a)Plan assets include only the assets associated with pension plans subject to legal minimum funding standards. Plan assets associated with U.S. nonqualified pension plans are not included here because they are not protected from our creditors and therefore cannot be reflected as a reduction from our obligations under the pension plans. As a result, the reconciliation of funded status does not reflect the effect of plan assets that exist for all of our defined benefit plans. See Note 18 for the assets associated with certain U.S. nonqualified pension plans.
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The actuarialgain for the year ended December 31, 2022 primarily resulted from an increase in the discount rates used to determine our benefit obligations for our pension plans from 2.93 percent in 2021 to 5.19 percent in 2022 due primarily to rising interest rates during 2022 as a result of actions by the Federal Reserve System and other central banks to address inflation. The actuarial gain for the year ended December 31, 2021 primarily resulted from an increase in the discount rates used to determine our benefit obligations for our pension plans from 2.62 percent in 2020 to 2.93 percent in 2021.
Benefits paid for the year ended December 31, 2022 were higher than those paid in 2021 due to a greater number of participants retiring in 2022 who elected lump-sum distributions. We believe that the increase in lump-sum elections was driven by the negative impact higher interest rates will have on lump-sum payments made after December 31, 2022.
The fair value of our plan assets as of December 31, 2022 was unfavorably impacted by the negative return on plan assets resulting primarily from a significant decline in equity market prices throughout the year. The fair value of our plan assets as of December 31, 2021 was favorably impacted by the return on plan assets resulting primarily from an improvement in equity market prices throughout the year.
Amounts recognized in our balance sheet for our pension and other postretirement benefits plans include (in millions):
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| December 31, | | December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Deferred charges and other assets, net | $ | 297 | | | $ | 135 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Accrued expenses | (14) | | | (19) | | | (21) | | | (22) | |
Other long-term liabilities | (211) | | | (276) | | | (237) | | | (325) | |
| $ | 72 | | | $ | (160) | | | $ | (258) | | | $ | (347) | |
The following table presents information for our pension plans with projected benefit obligations in excess of plan assets (in millions):
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| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Projected benefit obligation | $ | 249 | | | $ | 335 | |
Fair value of plan assets | 24 | | | 40 | |
The following table presents information for our pension plans with accumulated benefit obligations in excess of plan assets (in millions):
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| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Accumulated benefit obligation | $ | 209 | | | $ | 265 | |
Fair value of plan assets | 24 | | | 31 | |
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Benefit payments that we expect to pay, including amounts related to expected future services that we expect to receive, are as follows for the years ending December 31 (in millions):
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| Pension Benefits | | Other Postretirement Benefits |
2023 | $ | 159 | | | $ | 21 | |
2024 | 203 | | | 21 | |
2025 | 181 | | | 20 | |
2026 | 192 | | | 19 | |
2027 | 198 | | | 19 | |
2028-2032 | 969 | | | 88 | |
We plan to contribute $108 million to our pension plans and $21 million to our other postretirement benefit plans during 2023.
The components of net periodic benefit cost related to our defined benefit plans were as follows (in millions):
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Service cost | $ | 152 | | | $ | 161 | | | $ | 140 | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 7 | | | $ | 6 | |
Interest cost | 85 | | | 73 | | | 85 | | | 8 | | | 7 | | | 9 | |
Expected return on plan assets | (192) | | | (192) | | | (179) | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
Amortization of: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net actuarial (gain) loss | 52 | | | 81 | | | 74 | | | — | | | (1) | | | — | |
Prior service credit | (18) | | | (18) | | | (19) | | | (4) | | | (7) | | | (7) | |
Settlement loss | 61 | | | 8 | | | 5 | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
Net periodic benefit cost | $ | 140 | | | $ | 113 | | | $ | 106 | | | $ | 10 | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 8 | |
The components of net periodic benefit cost other than the service cost component (i.e., the non-service cost components) are included in “other income, net.”
Amortization of the net actuarial (gain) loss shown in the preceding table was based on the straight-line amortization of the excess of the unrecognized (gain) loss over 10 percent of the greater of the projected benefit obligation or market-related value of plan assets (smoothed asset value) over the average remaining service period of active employees expected to receive benefits under each respective plan. Amortization of prior service credit shown in the preceding table was based on a straight-line amortization of the credit over the average remaining service period of employees expected to receive benefits under each respective plan.
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Pre-tax amounts recognized in other comprehensive income (loss) were as follows (in millions):
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Net gain (loss) arising during the year: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net actuarial gain (loss) | $ | 158 | | | $ | 308 | | | $ | (105) | | | $ | 86 | | | $ | 9 | | | $ | (23) | |
Prior service cost | — | | | (4) | | | (5) | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
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Net (gain) loss reclassified into income: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net actuarial (gain) loss | 53 | | | 81 | | | 74 | | | (1) | | | (1) | | | — | |
Prior service credit | (18) | | | (18) | | | (19) | | | (4) | | | (7) | | | (7) | |
Settlement loss | 61 | | | 8 | | | 5 | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
Effect of exchange rates | — | | | 2 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
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Total changes in other comprehensive income (loss) | $ | 254 | | | $ | 377 | | | $ | (50) | | | $ | 81 | | | $ | 1 | | | $ | (30) | |
The pre-tax amounts in accumulated other comprehensive loss that have not yet been recognized as components of net periodic benefit cost were as follows (in millions):
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| December 31, | | December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Net actuarial (gain) loss | $ | 342 | | | $ | 615 | | | $ | (89) | | | $ | (4) | |
Prior service credit | (25) | | | (44) | | | (2) | | | (6) | |
Total | $ | 317 | | | $ | 571 | | | $ | (91) | | | $ | (10) | |
The weighted-average assumptions used to determine the benefit obligations were as follows:
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| December 31, | | December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Discount rate | 5.19 | % | | 2.93 | % | | 5.20 | % | | 2.96 | % |
Rate of compensation increase | 3.76 | % | | 3.70 | % | | n/a | | n/a |
Interest crediting rate for cash balance plans | 3.76 | % | | 3.03 | % | | n/a | | n/a |
The discount rate assumption used to determine the benefit obligations as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 for the majority of our pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans was based on the Aon AA Only Above Median yield curve and considered the timing of the projected cash outflows under our plans. This curve was designed by Aon, our actuarial consultant, to provide a means for plan sponsors to
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value the liabilities of their pension plans or postretirement benefit plans. To develop this curve, a hypothetical double-A yield curve represented by a series of annualized individual discount rates with maturities from six months to 99 years is constructed. Each bond issue underlying the double-A yield curve is required to have an average rating of double-A when averaging all available ratings by Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, and Fitch Ratings. Only the bonds representing the 50 percent highest yielding issuances of this double-A yield curve are then included in the Aon AA Only Above Median yield curve.
We based our discount rate assumption on the Aon AA Only Above Median yield curve because we believe it is representative of the types of bonds we would use to settle our pension and other postretirement benefit plan liabilities as of those dates. We believe that the yields associated with the bonds used to develop this yield curve reflect the current level of interest rates.
The weighted-average assumptions used to determine the net periodic benefit cost were as follows:
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Discount rate | 2.94 | % | | 2.62 | % | | 3.14 | % | | 2.96 | % | | 2.64 | % | | 3.32 | % |
Expected long-term rate of return on plan assets | 6.71 | % | | 7.09 | % | | 7.20 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a |
Rate of compensation increase | 3.70 | % | | 3.66 | % | | 3.75 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a |
Interest crediting rate for cash balance plans | 3.03 | % | | 3.03 | % | | 3.03 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a |
The assumed health care cost trend rates were as follows:
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| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Health care cost trend rate assumed for the next year | 6.78 | % | | 6.61 | % |
Rate to which the cost trend rate was assumed to decline (the ultimate trend rate) | 4.97 | % | | 5.00 | % |
Year that the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate | 2032 | | 2026 |
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The following table presents the fair values of the assets of our pension plans (in millions) as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 by level of the fair value hierarchy. Assets categorized in Level 1 of the hierarchy are measured at fair value using a market approach based on unadjusted quoted prices from national securities exchanges. Assets categorized in Level 2 of the hierarchy are measured at net asset value in a market that is not active or inputs other than quoted prices that are observable. No assets were categorized in Level 3 of the hierarchy as of December 31, 2022 and 2021. As previously noted, we do not fund or fully fund U.S. nonqualified and certain foreign pension plans that are not subject to funding requirements, and we do not fund our other postretirement benefit plans.
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| Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Total | | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Total | | | | | | |
Equity securities (a) | $ | 528 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 528 | | | $ | 681 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 681 | | | | | | | |
Mutual funds | 191 | | | — | | | 191 | | | 246 | | | — | | | 246 | | | | | | | |
Corporate debt instruments (a) | — | | | 253 | | | 253 | | | — | | | 355 | | | 355 | | | | | | | |
Government securities | 69 | | | 127 | | | 196 | | | 94 | | | 141 | | | 235 | | | | | | | |
Common collective trusts (b) | — | | | 940 | | | 940 | | | — | | | 1,202 | | | 1,202 | | | | | | | |
Pooled separate accounts (c) | — | | | 279 | | | 279 | | | — | | | 370 | | | 370 | | | | | | | |
Private funds | — | | | 43 | | | 43 | | | — | | | 112 | | | 112 | | | | | | | |
Insurance contract | — | | | 14 | | | 14 | | | — | | | 15 | | | 15 | | | | | | | |
Interest and dividends receivable | 5 | | | — | | | 5 | | | 5 | | | — | | | 5 | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | 38 | | | 3 | | | 41 | | | 82 | | | — | | | 82 | | | | | | | |
Securities transactions payable, net | (5) | | | — | | | (5) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | | | | |
Total pension plan assets | $ | 826 | | | $ | 1,659 | | | $ | 2,485 | | | $ | 1,108 | | | $ | 2,195 | | | $ | 3,303 | | | | | | | |
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(a)This class of securities includes domestic and international securities, which are held in a wide range of industry sectors.
(b)This class primarily includes investments in approximately 80 percent equities and 20 percent bonds as of December 31, 2022 and 2021.
(c)This class primarily includes investments in approximately 55 percent equities and 45 percent bonds as of December 31, 2022 and 2021.
The investment policies and strategies for the assets of our pension plans incorporate a well-diversified approach that is expected to earn long-term returns from capital appreciation and a growing stream of current income. This approach recognizes that assets are exposed to risk and the market value of the pension plans’ assets may fluctuate from year to year. Risk tolerance is determined based on our financial ability to withstand risk within the investment program and the willingness to accept return volatility. In line with the investment return objective and risk parameters, the pension plans’ mix of assets includes a diversified portfolio of equity and fixed-income investments. Equity securities include international securities and a blend of U.S. growth and value stocks of various sizes of capitalization. Fixed income securities include bonds and notes issued by the U.S. government and its agencies, corporate bonds, and mortgage-backed securities. The aggregate asset allocation is reviewed on an annual basis. As of December 31, 2022, the target allocations for plan assets under our primary pension plan are 70 percent equity securities and 30 percent fixed income investments.
The expected long-term rate of return on plan assets is based on a forward-looking expected asset return model. This model derives an expected rate of return based on the target asset allocation of a plan’s
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assets. The underlying assumptions regarding expected rates of return for each asset class reflect Aon’s best expectations for these asset classes. The model reflects the positive effect of periodic rebalancing among diversified asset classes. We select an expected asset return that is supported by this model.
Defined Contribution Plans
We have defined contribution plans that cover most of our employees. Our contributions to these plans are based on employees’ compensation and/or a partial match of employee contributions to the plans. Our contributions to these defined contribution plans were $83 million, $82 million, and $80 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
13. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
Overview
Under our 2020 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (the 2020 OSIP), various stock and stock-based awards may be granted to employees, non-employee directors, and third-party service providers. The 2020 OSIP permits grants of (i) restricted stock and restricted stock units; (ii) stock options (including incentive and non-qualified stock options); (iii) stock appreciation rights; (iv) performance awards of cash, stock, or other securities; and (v) other stock-based awards (e.g., stock unit awards). Awards under the 2020 OSIP are granted at the discretion of our Human Resources and Compensation Committee, a committee of our Board, and may be subject to vesting or performance periods, performance goals, or other restrictions. The 2020 OSIP was approved by our stockholders on April 30, 2020, and as of such date, any shares of common stock that were available to be awarded under the 2011 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (the 2011 OSIP) became available for issuance under the 2020 OSIP and any shares of common stock subject to awards under the 2011 OSIP outstanding as of April 30, 2020, that are subsequently forfeited, terminated, canceled or rescinded, settled in cash in lieu of common stock, exchanged for awards not involving common stock, or expire unexercised also become available for issuance under the 2020 OSIP. No future awards will be made under the 2011 OSIP. As of December 31, 2022, 12,747,181 shares of our common stock remained available to be awarded under the 2020 OSIP.
The following table reflects activity related to our stock-based compensation arrangements (in millions):
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Stock-based compensation expense: | | | | | |
Restricted stock | $ | 67 | | | $ | 65 | | | $ | 63 | |
Performance awards | 32 | | | 21 | | | 15 | |
Stock options and other awards | 4 | | | 2 | | | 2 | |
Total stock-based compensation expense | $ | 103 | | | $ | 88 | | | $ | 80 | |
Tax benefit recognized on stock-based compensation expense | $ | 15 | | | $ | 13 | | | $ | 13 | |
Tax benefit realized for tax deductions resulting from exercises and vestings | 2 | | | 1 | | | 1 | |
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Restricted Stock
Restricted stock is our most significant stock-based compensation arrangement. Employees, non-employee directors, and third-party service providers are eligible to receive restricted stock, which vests in accordance with individual written agreements between the participants and us, usually in equal annual installments over a period of three years beginning one year after the date of grant. The fair value of each share of restricted stock is equal to the market price of our common stock. A summary of the status of our restricted stock awards is presented in the following table:
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Number of Shares | | Weighted- Average Grant-Date Fair Value Per Share |
Nonvested shares as of January 1, 2022 | 1,458,191 | | | $ | 70.93 | |
Granted | 575,074 | | | 112.88 | |
Vested | (835,828) | | | 76.54 | |
Forfeited | (15,260) | | | 72.52 | |
Nonvested shares as of December 31, 2022 | 1,182,177 | | | 87.36 | |
As of December 31, 2022, there was $54 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to outstanding unvested restricted stock awards, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately two years.
The following table reflects activity related to our restricted stock:
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Weighted-average grant-date fair value per share of restricted stock granted | $ | 112.88 | | | $ | 77.71 | | | $ | 55.62 | |
Fair value of restricted stock vested (in millions) | 99 | | | 59 | | | 35 | |
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14. INCOME TAXES
Income Statement Components
Income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) was as follows (in millions):
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
U.S. operations | $ | 11,716 | | | $ | 1,023 | | | $ | (2,072) | |
Foreign operations | 3,591 | | | 520 | | | 62 | |
Income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) | $ | 15,307 | | | $ | 1,543 | | | $ | (2,010) | |
Statutory income tax rates applicable to the countries in which we operate during each of the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020 were as follows:
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U.S. | 21 | % |
Canada | 15 | % |
U.K. | 19 | % |
Ireland | 13 | % |
Peru | 30 | % |
Mexico | 30 | % |
The following is a reconciliation of the change in unrecognizedincome tax benefits, excluding related interest and penalties,expense (benefit) computed by applying statutory income tax rates to actual income tax expense (benefit) (in millions):
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Balance as of beginning of year | $ | 897 | | | $ | 970 | | | $ | 941 | |
Additions for tax positions related to the current year | 5 | | | 19 | | | 23 | |
Additions for tax positions related to prior years | 9 | | | 30 | | | 28 | |
Reductions for tax positions related to prior years | (20) | | | (101) | | | (19) | |
Reductions for tax positions related to the lapse of applicable statute of limitations | (44) | | | (14) | | | (1) | |
Settlements | 0 | | | (7) | | | (2) | |
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Balance as of end of year | $ | 847 | | | $ | 897 | | | $ | 970 | |
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| U.S. | | Foreign | | Total |
| Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | |
Income tax expense at statutory rates | $ | 2,460 | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | 611 | | | 17.0 | % | | $ | 3,071 | | | 20.1 | % |
U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense, net of federal income tax effect | 182 | | | 1.6 | % | | 255 | | | 7.1 | % | | 437 | | | 2.8 | % |
Permanent differences | (61) | | | (0.5) | % | | (16) | | | (0.5) | % | | (77) | | | (0.5) | % |
GILTI tax | 413 | | | 3.5 | % | | — | | | — | | | 413 | | | 2.7 | % |
Foreign tax credits | (396) | | | (3.4) | % | | — | | | — | | | (396) | | | (2.6) | % |
Repatriation withholding tax | 51 | | | 0.4 | % | | — | | | — | | | 51 | | | 0.3 | % |
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Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (78) | | | (0.7) | % | | 25 | | | 0.7 | % | | (53) | | | (0.3) | % |
Other, net | (27) | | | (0.2) | % | | 9 | | | 0.3 | % | | (18) | | | (0.1) | % |
Income tax expense | $ | 2,544 | | | 21.7 | % | | $ | 884 | | | 24.6 | % | | $ | 3,428 | | | 22.4 | % |
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Liability | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| U.S. | | Foreign | | Total |
| Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent |
Year ended December 31, 2021 | | | | | | | | | | | |
Income tax expense at statutory rates | $ | 215 | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | 73 | | | 14.0 | % | | $ | 288 | | | 18.7 | % |
U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense, net of federal income tax effect | 16 | | | 1.6 | % | | 53 | | | 10.2 | % | | 69 | | | 4.5 | % |
Permanent differences | (34) | | | (3.3) | % | | (14) | | | (2.7) | % | | (48) | | | (3.1) | % |
Changes in tax law (a) | (10) | | | (1.0) | % | | 74 | | | 14.2 | % | | 64 | | | 4.1 | % |
CARES Act (b) | (56) | | | (5.5) | % | | — | | | — | | | (56) | | | (3.6) | % |
GILTI tax | 125 | | | 12.2 | % | | — | | | — | | | 125 | | | 8.1 | % |
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Foreign tax credits | (103) | | | (10.1) | % | | — | | | — | | | (103) | | | (6.7) | % |
Settlements | (22) | | | (2.1) | % | | — | | | — | | | (22) | | | (1.4) | % |
Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (74) | | | (7.2) | % | | 30 | | | 5.8 | % | | (44) | | | (2.9) | % |
Other, net | (7) | | | (0.7) | % | | (11) | | | (2.1) | % | | (18) | | | (1.2) | % |
Income tax expense | $ | 50 | | | 4.9 | % | | $ | 205 | | | 39.4 | % | | $ | 255 | | | 16.5 | % |
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Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | | | | | | | |
Income tax benefit at statutory rates | $ | (435) | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | (10) | | | (16.1) | % | | $ | (445) | | | 22.1 | % |
U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense (benefit), net of federal income tax effect | (33) | | | 1.6 | % | | 27 | | | 43.5 | % | | (6) | | | 0.3 | % |
Permanent differences | (23) | | | 1.1 | % | | 15 | | | 24.2 | % | | (8) | | | 0.4 | % |
CARES Act (b) | (360) | | | 17.4 | % | | — | | | — | | | (360) | | | 17.9 | % |
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Lapse of federal statute of limitations | (39) | | | 1.8 | % | | — | | | — | | | (39) | | | 1.9 | % |
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Change in tax law | — | | | — | % | | 21 | | | 33.9 | % | | 21 | | | (1.0) | % |
Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (66) | | | 3.2 | % | | (8) | | | (12.9) | % | | (74) | | | 3.7 | % |
Other, net | 7 | | | (0.3) | % | | 1 | | | 1.6 | % | | 8 | | | (0.4) | % |
Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | (949) | | | 45.8 | % | | $ | 46 | | | 74.2 | % | | $ | (903) | | | 44.9 | % |
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(a)During the three months ended June 30, 2021, certain statutory income tax rate changes (primarily an increase in the U.K. rate from 19 percent to 25 percent effective in 2023) were enacted that resulted in the remeasurement of our deferred tax liabilities and related deferred income tax expense.
(b)See “CARES Act” on page 123 for Unrecognized Tax Benefitsa discussion of significant changes in tax law in the U.S. that were enacted in 2020. The following is a reconciliation
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| December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 |
Unrecognized tax benefits | $ | 847 | | | $ | 897 | |
Tax refund claims not yet filed but that we intend to file | (26) | | | (29) | |
Interest and penalties | 110 | | | 100 | |
Liability for unrecognized tax benefits presented in our balance sheets | $ | 931 | | | $ | 968 | |
Contents
Our liability for unrecognized
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Components of income tax benefits is reflected in the following balance sheet line itemsexpense (benefit) were as follows (in millions):
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| December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 |
| | | |
Income taxes payable | $ | 59 | | | $ | 0 | |
Other long-term liabilities | 859 | | | 954 | |
Deferred tax liabilities | 13 | | | 14 | |
Liability for unrecognized tax benefits presented in our balance sheets | $ | 931 | | | $ | 968 | |
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| U.S. | | Foreign | | Total |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | | | | | |
Current: | | | | | |
Country | $ | 2,147 | | | $ | 766 | | | $ | 2,913 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 153 | | | 312 | | | 465 | |
Total current | 2,300 | | | 1,078 | | | 3,378 | |
Deferred: | | | | | |
Country | 164 | | | (138) | | | 26 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 80 | | | (56) | | | 24 | |
Total deferred | 244 | | | (194) | | | 50 | |
Income tax expense | $ | 2,544 | | | $ | 884 | | | $ | 3,428 | |
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Year ended December 31, 2021 | | | | | |
Current: | | | | | |
Country | $ | 68 | | | $ | 215 | | | $ | 283 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 1 | | | 97 | | | 98 | |
Total current | 69 | | | 312 | | | 381 | |
Deferred: | | | | | |
Country | 5 | | | (63) | | | (58) | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | (24) | | | (44) | | | (68) | |
Total deferred | (19) | | | (107) | | | (126) | |
Income tax expense | $ | 50 | | | $ | 205 | | | $ | 255 | |
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Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | |
Current: | | | | | |
Country | $ | (1,033) | | | $ | (34) | | | $ | (1,067) | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 9 | | | (3) | | | 6 | |
Total current | (1,024) | | | (37) | | | (1,061) | |
Deferred: | | | | | |
Country | 126 | | | 53 | | | 179 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | (51) | | | 30 | | | (21) | |
Total deferred | 75 | | | 83 | | | 158 | |
Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | (949) | | | $ | 46 | | | $ | (903) | |
As
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Income Taxes Paid (Refunded)
Income taxes paid to (received from) U.S. and foreign taxing authorities were as follows (in millions):
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| Year Ended December 31, | |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | |
U.S. | $ | 2,396 | | | $ | (878) | | (a) | $ | 130 | | |
Foreign | 892 | | | 36 | | | 73 | | |
Income taxes paid (refunded), net | $ | 3,288 | | | $ | (842) | | | $ | 203 | | |
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(a)This amount includes a refund of $962 million that we received related to our U.S. federal income tax return for 2020.
Deferred Income Tax Assets and Liabilities
The tax effects of significant temporary differences representing deferred income tax assets and liabilities were as follows (in millions):
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| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Deferred income tax assets: | | | |
Tax credit carryforwards | $ | 660 | | | $ | 679 | |
NOLs | 642 | | | 697 | |
Inventories | 326 | | | 217 | |
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Compensation and employee benefit liabilities | 44 | | | 123 | |
Environmental liabilities | 57 | | | 53 | |
Other | 186 | | | 149 | |
Total deferred income tax assets | 1,915 | | | 1,918 | |
Valuation allowance | (1,234) | | | (1,262) | |
Net deferred income tax assets | 681 | | | 656 | |
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Deferred income tax liabilities: | | | |
Property, plant, and equipment | 4,708 | | | 4,866 | |
Deferred turnaround costs | 369 | | | 308 | |
Inventories | 234 | | | 191 | |
Investments | 431 | | | 268 | |
Other | 156 | | | 233 | |
Total deferred income tax liabilities | 5,898 | | | 5,866 | |
Net deferred income tax liabilities | $ | 5,217 | | | $ | 5,210 | |
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We had the following income tax credit and loss carryforwards as of December 31, 2020, our liability for unrecognized tax benefits included $525 million of refund claims associated with taxes paid on incentive payments received from the U.S. federal government for blending biofuels into refined petroleum products. We recorded a tax refund receivable of $525 million in connection with our refund claims, but we also recorded a liability for unrecognized tax benefits of $525 million due to the complexity of this matter and uncertainties with respect to sustaining these refund claims. Therefore, our financial position, results of operations, and liquidity will not be negatively impacted if we are unsuccessful in sustaining these refund claims.2022 (in millions):
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| Amount | | Expiration |
U.S. state income tax credits (gross amount) | $ | 73 | | | 2023 through 2033 |
U.S. state income tax credits (gross amount) | 5 | | | Unlimited |
U.S. foreign tax credits | 598 | | | 2027 |
U.S. state income tax NOLs (gross amount) | 12,002 | | | 2023 through 2040 |
U.S. state income tax NOLs (gross amount) | 390 | | | Unlimited |
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Foreign NOLs (gross amount) | 9 | | | Unlimited |
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We have recorded a valuation allowance as of December 31, 2022and 2021due to uncertainties related to our ability to utilize some of our deferred income tax assets associated with our U.S. foreign tax credits, certain U.S. state income tax credits, certain foreign deferred tax assets, and certain NOLs before they expire. The valuation allowance is based on our estimates of future taxable income in the various jurisdictions in which we operate and the period over which deferred income tax assets will be recoverable. The valuation allowance decreased by $28 million in 2022 primarily due to increases in the realizability of assets and NOLs in a foreign jurisdiction.
Unrecognized Tax Benefits
Other Disclosures
“Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest” is comprised as follows (in millions):
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Interest and debt expense | $ | 619 | | | $ | 651 | | | $ | 638 | |
Less: Capitalized interest | 57 | | | 48 | | | 75 | |
Interest and debt expense, net of capitalized interest | $ | 562 | | | $ | 603 | | | $ | 563 | |
Our credit facilities and other debt arrangements contain various customary restrictive covenants, including cross-default and cross-acceleration clauses.
Principal maturities for our debt obligations as of December 31, 2022 were as follows (in millions):
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2023 (a) | $ | 861 | |
2024 | 167 | |
2025 | 441 | |
2026 | 672 | |
2027 | 578 | |
Thereafter | 6,606 | |
Net unamortized debt issuance costs and other | (84) | |
Total debt | $ | 9,241 | |
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(a)Maturities for 2023 include the DGD Revolver, the DGD Loan Agreement, and the IEnova Revolver.
9. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Purchase Obligations
We have various purchase obligations under certain crude oil and other feedstock supply arrangements, industrial gas supply arrangements (such as hydrogen supply arrangements), natural gas supply arrangements, and various throughput, transportation, and terminaling agreements. We enter into these contracts to ensure an adequate supply of feedstock and utilities and adequate storage capacity to operate our refineries and ethanol plants. Substantially all of our purchase obligations are based on market prices or adjustments based on market indices. Certain of these purchase obligations include fixed or minimum volume requirements, while others are based on our usage requirements. None of these obligations is associated with suppliers’ financing arrangements. These purchase obligations are not reflected as liabilities.
Self-Insurance
We are self-insured for certain medical and dental, workers’ compensation, automobile liability, general liability, and other third-party liability claims up to applicable retention limits. Liabilities are accrued for self-insured claims, or when estimated losses exceed coverage limits, and when sufficient information is
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available to reasonably estimate the amount of the loss. These liabilities are included in accrued expenses and other long-term liabilities.
10. EQUITY
Share Activity
Activity in the number of shares of common stock and treasury stock was as follows (in millions):
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| Common Stock | | Treasury Stock |
Balance as of December 31, 2019 | 673 | | | (264) | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | 1 | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | — | | | (2) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2020 | 673 | | | (265) | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | 1 | |
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Balance as of December 31, 2021 | 673 | | | (264) | |
Transactions in connection with stock-based compensation plans | — | | | 1 | |
Purchases of common stock for treasury | — | | | (38) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2022 | 673 | | | (301) | |
Preferred Stock
We have 20 million shares of preferred stock authorized with a par value of $0.01 per share. No shares of preferred stock were outstanding as of December 31, 2022 or 2021.
Treasury Stock
We purchase shares of our outstanding common stock as authorized by our board of directors (Board), including under share purchase programs (described below) and with respect to our employee stock-based compensation plans.
On January 23, 2018, our Board authorized our purchase of up to $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, and we completed all authorized share purchases under that program during the second quarter of 2022. On July 7, 2022, we announced that our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, and we completed all authorized share purchases under that program during the fourth quarter of 2022. On October 26, 2022, our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date (the October 2022 Program). As of December 31, 2022, we had$2.3 billionremaining available for purchase under the October 2022 Program. On February 23, 2023, our Board authorized our purchase of up to an additional $2.5 billion of our outstanding common stock with no expiration date, which is in addition to the amount remaining under the October 2022 Program.
Common Stock Dividends
On January 31, 2023, our Board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.02 per common share payable on March 16, 2023 to holders of record at the close of business on February 14, 2023.
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Income Tax Effects Related to Components of Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
The tax effects allocated to each component of other comprehensive income (loss) were as follows (in millions):
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| Before-Tax Amount | | Tax Expense (Benefit) | | Net Amount |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | (613) | | | $ | (7) | | | $ | (606) | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
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Net actuarial gain arising during the year | 244 | | | 57 | | | 187 | |
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Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 52 | | | 12 | | | 40 | |
Prior service credit | (22) | | | (5) | | | (17) | |
Settlement loss | 61 | | | 13 | | | 48 | |
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Net gain on pension and other postretirement benefits | 335 | | | 77 | | | 258 | |
Derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges: | | | | | |
Net loss arising during the year | (292) | | | (32) | | | (260) | |
Net loss reclassified into income | 286 | | | 32 | | | 254 | |
Net loss on cash flow hedges | (6) | | | — | | | (6) | |
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Other comprehensive loss | $ | (284) | | | $ | 70 | | | $ | (354) | |
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| Before-Tax Amount | | Tax Expense (Benefit) | | Net Amount |
Year ended December 31, 2021 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | (47) | | | $ | — | | | $ | (47) | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
Gain arising during the year related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial gain | 317 | | | 69 | | | 248 | |
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Prior service cost | (4) | | | (1) | | | (3) | |
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Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 80 | | | 18 | | | 62 | |
Prior service credit | (25) | | | (6) | | | (19) | |
Settlement loss | 8 | | | 2 | | | 6 | |
Effect of exchange rates | 2 | | | — | | | 2 | |
Net gain on pension and other postretirement benefits | 378 | | | 82 | | | 296 | |
Derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges: | | | | | |
Net loss arising during the year | (48) | | | (5) | | | (43) | |
Net loss reclassified into income | 46 | | | 5 | | | 41 | |
Net loss on cash flow hedges | (2) | | | — | | | (2) | |
Other comprehensive income | $ | 329 | | | $ | 82 | | | $ | 247 | |
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Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | |
Foreign currency translation adjustment | $ | 161 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 161 | |
Pension and other postretirement benefits: | | | | | |
Loss arising during the year related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | (128) | | | (26) | | | (102) | |
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Prior service cost | (5) | | | (1) | | | (4) | |
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Amounts reclassified into income related to: | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | 74 | | | 17 | | | 57 | |
Prior service credit | (26) | | | (6) | | | (20) | |
Settlement loss | 5 | | | 1 | | | 4 | |
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Net loss on pension and other postretirement benefits | (80) | | | (15) | | | (65) | |
Derivative instruments designated and qualifying as cash flow hedges: | | | | | |
Net gain arising during the year | 36 | | | 3 | | | 33 | |
Net gain reclassified into income | (34) | | | (4) | | | (30) | |
Net gain on cash flow hedges | 2 | | | (1) | | | 3 | |
Other comprehensive income | $ | 83 | | | $ | (16) | | | $ | 99 | |
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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
Changes in accumulated other comprehensive loss by component, net of tax, were as follows (in millions):
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| Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment | | Defined Benefit Plans Items | | Gains (Losses) on Cash Flow Hedges | | | | Total |
Balance as of December 31, 2019 | $ | (676) | | | $ | (672) | | | $ | (3) | | | | | $ | (1,351) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | 161 | | | (106) | | | 14 | | | | | 69 | |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | — | | | 41 | | | (13) | | | | | 28 | |
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Other comprehensive income (loss) | 161 | | | (65) | | | 1 | | | | | 97 | |
Balance as of December 31, 2020 | (515) | | | (737) | | | (2) | | | | | (1,254) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | (47) | | | 245 | | | (21) | | | | | 177 | |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | — | | | 49 | | | 18 | | | | | 67 | |
Effect of exchange rates | — | | | 2 | | | — | | | | | 2 | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) | (47) | | | 296 | | | (3) | | | | | 246 | |
Balance as of December 31, 2021 | (562) | | | (441) | | | (5) | | | | | (1,008) | |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | (606) | | | 187 | | | (114) | | | | | (533) | |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss | — | | | 71 | | | 111 | | | | | 182 | |
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Other comprehensive income (loss) | (606) | | | 258 | | | (3) | | | | | (351) | |
Balance as of December 31, 2022 | $ | (1,168) | | | $ | (183) | | | $ | (8) | | | | | $ | (1,359) | |
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Gains (losses) reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive loss and into net income (loss) were as follows (in millions):
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Details about Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss Components | | | | Affected Line Item in the Statement of Income |
| Year Ended December 31, | |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | |
Amortization of items related to defined benefit pension plans: | | | | | | | | |
Net actuarial loss | | $ | (52) | | | $ | (80) | | | $ | (74) | | | (a) Other income, net |
Prior service credit | | 22 | | | 25 | | | 26 | | | (a) Other income, net |
Settlement loss | | (61) | | | (8) | | | (5) | | | (a) Other income, net |
| | (91) | | | (63) | | | (53) | | | Total before tax |
| | 20 | | | 14 | | | 12 | | | Tax benefit |
| | $ | (71) | | | $ | (49) | | | $ | (41) | | | Net of tax |
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Gains (losses) on cash flow hedges: | | | | | | | | |
Commodity contracts | | $ | (286) | | | $ | (46) | | | $ | 34 | | | Revenues |
| | (286) | | | (46) | | | 34 | | | Total before tax |
| | 32 | | | 5 | | | (4) | | | Tax (expense) benefit |
| | $ | (254) | | | $ | (41) | | | $ | 30 | | | Net of tax |
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Total reclassifications for the year | | $ | (325) | | | $ | (90) | | | $ | (11) | | | Net of tax |
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(a)These accumulated other comprehensive loss components are included in the computation of net periodic benefit cost, as discussed in Note 12.
11. VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES
Consolidated VIEs
In the normal course of business, we have financial interests in certain entities that have been determined to be VIEs. We consolidate a VIE when we have a variable interest in an entity for which we are the primary beneficiary such that we have (i) the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the VIE’s economic performance and (ii) the obligation to absorb losses of or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE. In order to make this determination, we evaluated our contractual arrangements with the VIE, including arrangements for the use of assets, purchases of products and services, debt, equity, or management of operating activities.
The following discussion summarizes our involvement with the consolidated VIEs:
•DGD is a joint venture with a subsidiary of Darling that owns and operates two plants that process waste and renewable feedstocks (predominately animal fats, used cooking oils, and inedible distillers corn oils) into renewable diesel and renewable naphtha. One plant is located next to our St. Charles Refinery (the DGD St. Charles Plant) and the other plant is the DGD
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Port Arthur Plant. Our significant agreements with DGD include an operations agreement that outlines our responsibilities as operator of both plants.
As operator, we operate the plants and perform certain day-to-day operating and management functions for DGD as an independent contractor. The operations agreement provides us (as operator) with certain power to direct the activities that most significantly impact DGD’s economic performance. Because this agreement conveys such power to us and is separate from our ownership rights, we determined that DGD was a VIE. For this reason and because we hold a 50 percent ownership interest that provides us with significant economic rights and obligations, we determined that we are the primary beneficiary of DGD. DGD has risk associated with its operations because it generates revenues from external customers.
•Central Mexico Terminals is a collective group of three subsidiaries of Infraestructura Energetica Nova, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (IEnova), a Mexican company and indirect subsidiary of Sempra Energy, a U.S. public company. We have terminaling agreements with Central Mexico Terminals that represent variable interests because we have determined them to be finance leases due to our exclusive use of the terminals. Although we do not have an ownership interest in the entities that own each of the three terminals, the finance leases convey to us (i) the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of all three terminals and (ii) the ability to influence the benefits received or the losses incurred by the terminals because of our use of the terminals. As a result, we determined each of the entities was a VIE and that we are the primary beneficiary of each. Substantially all of Central Mexico Terminals’ revenues will be derived from us; therefore, we believe there is limited risk to us associated with Central Mexico Terminals’ operations.
•We also have financial interests in other entities that have been determined to be VIEs because the entities’ contractual arrangements transfer the power to us to direct the activities that most significantly impact their economic performance or reduce the exposure to operational variability and risk of loss created by the entity that otherwise would be held exclusively by the equity owners. Furthermore, we determined that we are the primary beneficiary of these VIEs because (i) certain contractual arrangements (exclusive of our ownership rights) provide us with the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of these entities and/or (ii) our 50 percent ownership interests provide us with significant economic rights and obligations.
The assets of the consolidated VIEs can only be used to settle their own obligations and the creditors of the consolidated VIEs have no recourse to our other assets. We generally do not provide financial guarantees to the VIEs. Although we have provided credit facilities to some of the VIEs in support of their construction or acquisition activities, these transactions are eliminated in consolidation. Our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows are impacted by the performance of the consolidated VIEs, net of intercompany eliminations, to the extent of our ownership interest in each VIE.
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The following table presents summarized balance sheet information for the significant assets and liabilities of the consolidated VIEs, which are included in our balance sheets (in millions):
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| DGD | | Central Mexico Terminals | | Other | | Total |
December 31, 2022 | | | | | | | |
Assets | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 133 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 16 | | | $ | 149 | |
Other current assets | 1,106 | | | 7 | | | 32 | | | 1,145 | |
Property, plant, and equipment, net | 3,785 | | | 681 | | | 79 | | | 4,545 | |
Liabilities | | | | | | | |
Current liabilities, including current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | 626 | | | $ | 737 | | | $ | 21 | | | $ | 1,384 | |
Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | 693 | | | — | | | — | | | 693 | |
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December 31, 2021 | | | | | | | |
Assets | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 21 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 15 | | | $ | 36 | |
Other current assets | 558 | | | 10 | | | 13 | | | 581 | |
Property, plant, and equipment, net | 2,629 | | | 676 | | | 91 | | | 3,396 | |
Liabilities | | | | | | | |
Current liabilities, including current portion of debt and finance lease obligations | $ | 398 | | | $ | 729 | | | $ | 9 | | | $ | 1,136 | |
Debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion | 264 | | | — | | | 20 | | | 284 | |
Nonconsolidated VIEs
We hold variable interests in VIEs that have not been consolidated because we are not considered the primary beneficiary. These nonconsolidated VIEs are not material to our financial position or results of operations and are accounted for as equity investments.
On April 19, 2021, we sold a 24.99 percent membership interest in MVP Terminalling, LLC (MVP), a nonconsolidated joint venture, for $270 million that resulted in a gain of $62 million, which is included in “other income, net” for the year ended December 31, 2021. MVP owns and operates a marine terminal (the MVP Terminal) located on the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas. We retained a 25.01 percent membership interest in MVP.
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12. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS
Defined Benefit Plans
We have defined benefit pension plans, some of which are subject to collective bargaining agreements, that cover most of our employees. These plans provide eligible employees with retirement income based primarily on years of service and compensation during specific periods under final average pay and cash balance formulas. We fund all of our pension plans as required by local regulations. In the U.S., all qualified pension plans are subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act’s minimum funding standard. We typically do not fund or fully fund U.S. nonqualified and certain foreign pension plans that are not subject to funding requirements because contributions to these pension plans may be less economic and investment returns may be less attractive than our other investment alternatives.
We also provide health care and life insurance benefits for certain retired employees through our postretirement benefit plans. Most of our employees become eligible for these benefits if, while still working for us, they reach normal retirement age or take early retirement. These plans are unfunded, and retired employees share the cost with us. Individuals who became our employees as a result of an acquisition became eligible for postretirement benefits under our plans as determined by the terms of the relevant acquisition agreement.
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The changes in benefit obligation related to all of our defined benefit plans, the changes in fair value of plan assets(a), and the funded status of our defined benefit plans as of and for the years ended below were as follows (in millions):
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| December 31, | | December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Changes in benefit obligation | | | | | | | |
Benefit obligation as of beginning of year | $ | 3,463 | | | $ | 3,625 | | | $ | 347 | | | $ | 358 | |
Service cost | 152 | | | 161 | | | 6 | | | 7 | |
Interest cost | 85 | | | 73 | | | 8 | | | 7 | |
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Participant contributions | — | | | — | | | 13 | | | 13 | |
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Benefits paid | (366) | | | (284) | | | (29) | | | (29) | |
Actuarial gain | (882) | | | (111) | | | (86) | | | (9) | |
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Foreign currency exchange rate changes | (39) | | | (1) | | | (1) | | | — | |
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Benefit obligation as of end of year | $ | 2,413 | | | $ | 3,463 | | | $ | 258 | | | $ | 347 | |
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Changes in plan assets (a) | | | | | | | |
Fair value of plan assets as of beginning of year | $ | 3,303 | | | $ | 3,067 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Actual return on plan assets | (532) | | | 389 | | | — | | | — | |
Company contributions | 120 | | | 135 | | | 16 | | | 16 | |
Participant contributions | — | | | — | | | 13 | | | 13 | |
Benefits paid | (366) | | | (284) | | | (29) | | | (29) | |
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Foreign currency exchange rate changes | (40) | | | (4) | | | — | | | — | |
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Fair value of plan assets as of end of year | $ | 2,485 | | | $ | 3,303 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
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Reconciliation of funded status (a) | | | | | | | |
Fair value of plan assets as of end of year | $ | 2,485 | | | $ | 3,303 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Less: Benefit obligation as of end of year | 2,413 | | | 3,463 | | | 258 | | | 347 | |
Funded status as of end of year | $ | 72 | | | $ | (160) | | | $ | (258) | | | $ | (347) | |
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Accumulated benefit obligation | $ | 2,271 | | | $ | 3,238 | | | n/a | | n/a |
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(a)Plan assets include only the assets associated with pension plans subject to legal minimum funding standards. Plan assets associated with U.S. nonqualified pension plans are not included here because they are not protected from our creditors and therefore cannot be reflected as a reduction from our obligations under the pension plans. As a result, the reconciliation of funded status does not reflect the effect of plan assets that exist for all of our defined benefit plans. See Note 18 for the assets associated with certain U.S. nonqualified pension plans.
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The actuarialgain for the year ended December 31, 2022 primarily resulted from an increase in the discount rates used to determine our benefit obligations for our pension plans from 2.93 percent in 2021 to 5.19 percent in 2022 due primarily to rising interest rates during 2022 as a result of actions by the Federal Reserve System and other central banks to address inflation. The actuarial gain for the year ended December 31, 2021 primarily resulted from an increase in the discount rates used to determine our benefit obligations for our pension plans from 2.62 percent in 2020 to 2.93 percent in 2021.
Benefits paid for the year ended December 31, 2022 were higher than those paid in 2021 due to a greater number of participants retiring in 2022 who elected lump-sum distributions. We believe that the increase in lump-sum elections was driven by the negative impact higher interest rates will have on lump-sum payments made after December 31, 2022.
The fair value of our plan assets as of December 31, 2022 was unfavorably impacted by the negative return on plan assets resulting primarily from a significant decline in equity market prices throughout the year. The fair value of our plan assets as of December 31, 2021 was favorably impacted by the return on plan assets resulting primarily from an improvement in equity market prices throughout the year.
Amounts recognized in our balance sheet for our pension and other postretirement benefits plans include (in millions):
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| December 31, | | December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Deferred charges and other assets, net | $ | 297 | | | $ | 135 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | |
Accrued expenses | (14) | | | (19) | | | (21) | | | (22) | |
Other long-term liabilities | (211) | | | (276) | | | (237) | | | (325) | |
| $ | 72 | | | $ | (160) | | | $ | (258) | | | $ | (347) | |
The following table presents information for our pension plans with projected benefit obligations in excess of plan assets (in millions):
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| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Projected benefit obligation | $ | 249 | | | $ | 335 | |
Fair value of plan assets | 24 | | | 40 | |
The following table presents information for our pension plans with accumulated benefit obligations in excess of plan assets (in millions):
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| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Accumulated benefit obligation | $ | 209 | | | $ | 265 | |
Fair value of plan assets | 24 | | | 31 | |
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Benefit payments that we expect to pay, including amounts related to expected future services that we expect to receive, are as follows for the years ending December 31 (in millions):
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| Pension Benefits | | Other Postretirement Benefits |
2023 | $ | 159 | | | $ | 21 | |
2024 | 203 | | | 21 | |
2025 | 181 | | | 20 | |
2026 | 192 | | | 19 | |
2027 | 198 | | | 19 | |
2028-2032 | 969 | | | 88 | |
We plan to contribute $108 million to our pension plans and $21 million to our other postretirement benefit plans during 2023.
The components of net periodic benefit cost related to our defined benefit plans were as follows (in millions):
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Service cost | $ | 152 | | | $ | 161 | | | $ | 140 | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 7 | | | $ | 6 | |
Interest cost | 85 | | | 73 | | | 85 | | | 8 | | | 7 | | | 9 | |
Expected return on plan assets | (192) | | | (192) | | | (179) | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
Amortization of: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net actuarial (gain) loss | 52 | | | 81 | | | 74 | | | — | | | (1) | | | — | |
Prior service credit | (18) | | | (18) | | | (19) | | | (4) | | | (7) | | | (7) | |
Settlement loss | 61 | | | 8 | | | 5 | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
Net periodic benefit cost | $ | 140 | | | $ | 113 | | | $ | 106 | | | $ | 10 | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 8 | |
The components of net periodic benefit cost other than the service cost component (i.e., the non-service cost components) are included in “other income, net.”
Amortization of the net actuarial (gain) loss shown in the preceding table was based on the straight-line amortization of the excess of the unrecognized (gain) loss over 10 percent of the greater of the projected benefit obligation or market-related value of plan assets (smoothed asset value) over the average remaining service period of active employees expected to receive benefits under each respective plan. Amortization of prior service credit shown in the preceding table was based on a straight-line amortization of the credit over the average remaining service period of employees expected to receive benefits under each respective plan.
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Pre-tax amounts recognized in other comprehensive income (loss) were as follows (in millions):
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Net gain (loss) arising during the year: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net actuarial gain (loss) | $ | 158 | | | $ | 308 | | | $ | (105) | | | $ | 86 | | | $ | 9 | | | $ | (23) | |
Prior service cost | — | | | (4) | | | (5) | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
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Net (gain) loss reclassified into income: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Net actuarial (gain) loss | 53 | | | 81 | | | 74 | | | (1) | | | (1) | | | — | |
Prior service credit | (18) | | | (18) | | | (19) | | | (4) | | | (7) | | | (7) | |
Settlement loss | 61 | | | 8 | | | 5 | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
Effect of exchange rates | — | | | 2 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
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Total changes in other comprehensive income (loss) | $ | 254 | | | $ | 377 | | | $ | (50) | | | $ | 81 | | | $ | 1 | | | $ | (30) | |
The pre-tax amounts in accumulated other comprehensive loss that have not yet been recognized as components of net periodic benefit cost were as follows (in millions):
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| December 31, | | December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Net actuarial (gain) loss | $ | 342 | | | $ | 615 | | | $ | (89) | | | $ | (4) | |
Prior service credit | (25) | | | (44) | | | (2) | | | (6) | |
Total | $ | 317 | | | $ | 571 | | | $ | (91) | | | $ | (10) | |
The weighted-average assumptions used to determine the benefit obligations were as follows:
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| December 31, | | December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Discount rate | 5.19 | % | | 2.93 | % | | 5.20 | % | | 2.96 | % |
Rate of compensation increase | 3.76 | % | | 3.70 | % | | n/a | | n/a |
Interest crediting rate for cash balance plans | 3.76 | % | | 3.03 | % | | n/a | | n/a |
The discount rate assumption used to determine the benefit obligations as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 for the majority of our pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans was based on the Aon AA Only Above Median yield curve and considered the timing of the projected cash outflows under our plans. This curve was designed by Aon, our actuarial consultant, to provide a means for plan sponsors to
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value the liabilities of their pension plans or postretirement benefit plans. To develop this curve, a hypothetical double-A yield curve represented by a series of annualized individual discount rates with maturities from six months to 99 years is constructed. Each bond issue underlying the double-A yield curve is required to have an average rating of double-A when averaging all available ratings by Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, and Fitch Ratings. Only the bonds representing the 50 percent highest yielding issuances of this double-A yield curve are then included in the Aon AA Only Above Median yield curve.
We based our discount rate assumption on the Aon AA Only Above Median yield curve because we believe it is representative of the types of bonds we would use to settle our pension and other postretirement benefit plan liabilities as of those dates. We believe that the yields associated with the bonds used to develop this yield curve reflect the current level of interest rates.
The weighted-average assumptions used to determine the net periodic benefit cost were as follows:
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| Pension Plans | | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |
| Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Discount rate | 2.94 | % | | 2.62 | % | | 3.14 | % | | 2.96 | % | | 2.64 | % | | 3.32 | % |
Expected long-term rate of return on plan assets | 6.71 | % | | 7.09 | % | | 7.20 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a |
Rate of compensation increase | 3.70 | % | | 3.66 | % | | 3.75 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a |
Interest crediting rate for cash balance plans | 3.03 | % | | 3.03 | % | | 3.03 | % | | n/a | | n/a | | n/a |
The assumed health care cost trend rates were as follows:
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| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Health care cost trend rate assumed for the next year | 6.78 | % | | 6.61 | % |
Rate to which the cost trend rate was assumed to decline (the ultimate trend rate) | 4.97 | % | | 5.00 | % |
Year that the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate | 2032 | | 2026 |
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The following table presents the fair values of the assets of our pension plans (in millions) as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 by level of the fair value hierarchy. Assets categorized in Level 1 of the hierarchy are measured at fair value using a market approach based on unadjusted quoted prices from national securities exchanges. Assets categorized in Level 2 of the hierarchy are measured at net asset value in a market that is not active or inputs other than quoted prices that are observable. No assets were categorized in Level 3 of the hierarchy as of December 31, 2022 and 2021. As previously noted, we do not fund or fully fund U.S. nonqualified and certain foreign pension plans that are not subject to funding requirements, and we do not fund our other postretirement benefit plans.
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| 2022 | | 2021 | | | | | | |
| Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Total | | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Total | | | | | | |
Equity securities (a) | $ | 528 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 528 | | | $ | 681 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 681 | | | | | | | |
Mutual funds | 191 | | | — | | | 191 | | | 246 | | | — | | | 246 | | | | | | | |
Corporate debt instruments (a) | — | | | 253 | | | 253 | | | — | | | 355 | | | 355 | | | | | | | |
Government securities | 69 | | | 127 | | | 196 | | | 94 | | | 141 | | | 235 | | | | | | | |
Common collective trusts (b) | — | | | 940 | | | 940 | | | — | | | 1,202 | | | 1,202 | | | | | | | |
Pooled separate accounts (c) | — | | | 279 | | | 279 | | | — | | | 370 | | | 370 | | | | | | | |
Private funds | — | | | 43 | | | 43 | | | — | | | 112 | | | 112 | | | | | | | |
Insurance contract | — | | | 14 | | | 14 | | | — | | | 15 | | | 15 | | | | | | | |
Interest and dividends receivable | 5 | | | — | | | 5 | | | 5 | | | — | | | 5 | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | 38 | | | 3 | | | 41 | | | 82 | | | — | | | 82 | | | | | | | |
Securities transactions payable, net | (5) | | | — | | | (5) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | | | | | |
Total pension plan assets | $ | 826 | | | $ | 1,659 | | | $ | 2,485 | | | $ | 1,108 | | | $ | 2,195 | | | $ | 3,303 | | | | | | | |
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(a)This class of securities includes domestic and international securities, which are held in a wide range of industry sectors.
(b)This class primarily includes investments in approximately 80 percent equities and 20 percent bonds as of December 31, 2022 and 2021.
(c)This class primarily includes investments in approximately 55 percent equities and 45 percent bonds as of December 31, 2022 and 2021.
The investment policies and strategies for the assets of our pension plans incorporate a well-diversified approach that is expected to earn long-term returns from capital appreciation and a growing stream of current income. This approach recognizes that assets are exposed to risk and the market value of the pension plans’ assets may fluctuate from year to year. Risk tolerance is determined based on our financial ability to withstand risk within the investment program and the willingness to accept return volatility. In line with the investment return objective and risk parameters, the pension plans’ mix of assets includes a diversified portfolio of equity and fixed-income investments. Equity securities include international securities and a blend of U.S. growth and value stocks of various sizes of capitalization. Fixed income securities include bonds and notes issued by the U.S. government and its agencies, corporate bonds, and mortgage-backed securities. The aggregate asset allocation is reviewed on an annual basis. As of December 31, 2022, the target allocations for plan assets under our primary pension plan are 70 percent equity securities and 30 percent fixed income investments.
The expected long-term rate of return on plan assets is based on a forward-looking expected asset return model. This model derives an expected rate of return based on the target asset allocation of a plan’s
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assets. The underlying assumptions regarding expected rates of return for each asset class reflect Aon’s best expectations for these asset classes. The model reflects the positive effect of periodic rebalancing among diversified asset classes. We select an expected asset return that is supported by this model.
Defined Contribution Plans
We have defined contribution plans that cover most of our employees. Our contributions to these plans are based on employees’ compensation and/or a partial match of employee contributions to the plans. Our contributions to these defined contribution plans were $83 million, $82 million, and $80 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
13. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
Overview
Under our 2020 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (the 2020 OSIP), various stock and stock-based awards may be granted to employees, non-employee directors, and third-party service providers. The 2020 OSIP permits grants of (i) restricted stock and restricted stock units; (ii) stock options (including incentive and non-qualified stock options); (iii) stock appreciation rights; (iv) performance awards of cash, stock, or other securities; and (v) other stock-based awards (e.g., stock unit awards). Awards under the 2020 OSIP are granted at the discretion of our Human Resources and Compensation Committee, a committee of our Board, and may be subject to vesting or performance periods, performance goals, or other restrictions. The 2020 OSIP was approved by our stockholders on April 30, 2020, and as of such date, any shares of common stock that were available to be awarded under the 2011 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (the 2011 OSIP) became available for issuance under the 2020 OSIP and any shares of common stock subject to awards under the 2011 OSIP outstanding as of April 30, 2020, that are subsequently forfeited, terminated, canceled or rescinded, settled in cash in lieu of common stock, exchanged for awards not involving common stock, or expire unexercised also become available for issuance under the 2020 OSIP. No future awards will be made under the 2011 OSIP. As of December 31, 2022, 12,747,181 shares of our common stock remained available to be awarded under the 2020 OSIP.
The following table reflects activity related to our stock-based compensation arrangements (in millions):
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Stock-based compensation expense: | | | | | |
Restricted stock | $ | 67 | | | $ | 65 | | | $ | 63 | |
Performance awards | 32 | | | 21 | | | 15 | |
Stock options and other awards | 4 | | | 2 | | | 2 | |
Total stock-based compensation expense | $ | 103 | | | $ | 88 | | | $ | 80 | |
Tax benefit recognized on stock-based compensation expense | $ | 15 | | | $ | 13 | | | $ | 13 | |
Tax benefit realized for tax deductions resulting from exercises and vestings | 2 | | | 1 | | | 1 | |
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Restricted Stock
Restricted stock is our most significant stock-based compensation arrangement. Employees, non-employee directors, and third-party service providers are eligible to receive restricted stock, which vests in accordance with individual written agreements between the participants and us, usually in equal annual installments over a period of three years beginning one year after the date of grant. The fair value of each share of restricted stock is equal to the market price of our common stock. A summary of the status of our restricted stock awards is presented in the following table:
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Number of Shares | | Weighted- Average Grant-Date Fair Value Per Share |
Nonvested shares as of January 1, 2022 | 1,458,191 | | | $ | 70.93 | |
Granted | 575,074 | | | 112.88 | |
Vested | (835,828) | | | 76.54 | |
Forfeited | (15,260) | | | 72.52 | |
Nonvested shares as of December 31, 2022 | 1,182,177 | | | 87.36 | |
As of December 31, 2020 and 2019,2022, there was $729$54 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to outstanding unvested restricted stock awards, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately two years.
The following table reflects activity related to our restricted stock:
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Weighted-average grant-date fair value per share of restricted stock granted | $ | 112.88 | | | $ | 77.71 | | | $ | 55.62 | |
Fair value of restricted stock vested (in millions) | 99 | | | 59 | | | 35 | |
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14. INCOME TAXES
Income Statement Components
Income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) was as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
U.S. operations | $ | 11,716 | | | $ | 1,023 | | | $ | (2,072) | |
Foreign operations | 3,591 | | | 520 | | | 62 | |
Income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit) | $ | 15,307 | | | $ | 1,543 | | | $ | (2,010) | |
Statutory income tax rates applicable to the countries in which we operate during each of the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020 were as follows:
| | | | | |
U.S. | 21 | % |
Canada | 15 | % |
U.K. | 19 | % |
Ireland | 13 | % |
Peru | 30 | % |
Mexico | 30 | % |
The following is a reconciliation of income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying statutory income tax rates to actual income tax expense (benefit) (in millions):
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| U.S. | | Foreign | | Total |
| Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | |
Income tax expense at statutory rates | $ | 2,460 | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | 611 | | | 17.0 | % | | $ | 3,071 | | | 20.1 | % |
U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense, net of federal income tax effect | 182 | | | 1.6 | % | | 255 | | | 7.1 | % | | 437 | | | 2.8 | % |
Permanent differences | (61) | | | (0.5) | % | | (16) | | | (0.5) | % | | (77) | | | (0.5) | % |
GILTI tax | 413 | | | 3.5 | % | | — | | | — | | | 413 | | | 2.7 | % |
Foreign tax credits | (396) | | | (3.4) | % | | — | | | — | | | (396) | | | (2.6) | % |
Repatriation withholding tax | 51 | | | 0.4 | % | | — | | | — | | | 51 | | | 0.3 | % |
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| | | | | | | | | | | |
Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (78) | | | (0.7) | % | | 25 | | | 0.7 | % | | (53) | | | (0.3) | % |
Other, net | (27) | | | (0.2) | % | | 9 | | | 0.3 | % | | (18) | | | (0.1) | % |
Income tax expense | $ | 2,544 | | | 21.7 | % | | $ | 884 | | | 24.6 | % | | $ | 3,428 | | | 22.4 | % |
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| U.S. | | Foreign | | Total |
| Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent | | Amount | | Percent |
Year ended December 31, 2021 | | | | | | | | | | | |
Income tax expense at statutory rates | $ | 215 | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | 73 | | | 14.0 | % | | $ | 288 | | | 18.7 | % |
U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense, net of federal income tax effect | 16 | | | 1.6 | % | | 53 | | | 10.2 | % | | 69 | | | 4.5 | % |
Permanent differences | (34) | | | (3.3) | % | | (14) | | | (2.7) | % | | (48) | | | (3.1) | % |
Changes in tax law (a) | (10) | | | (1.0) | % | | 74 | | | 14.2 | % | | 64 | | | 4.1 | % |
CARES Act (b) | (56) | | | (5.5) | % | | — | | | — | | | (56) | | | (3.6) | % |
GILTI tax | 125 | | | 12.2 | % | | — | | | — | | | 125 | | | 8.1 | % |
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Foreign tax credits | (103) | | | (10.1) | % | | — | | | — | | | (103) | | | (6.7) | % |
Settlements | (22) | | | (2.1) | % | | — | | | — | | | (22) | | | (1.4) | % |
Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (74) | | | (7.2) | % | | 30 | | | 5.8 | % | | (44) | | | (2.9) | % |
Other, net | (7) | | | (0.7) | % | | (11) | | | (2.1) | % | | (18) | | | (1.2) | % |
Income tax expense | $ | 50 | | | 4.9 | % | | $ | 205 | | | 39.4 | % | | $ | 255 | | | 16.5 | % |
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Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | | | | | | | |
Income tax benefit at statutory rates | $ | (435) | | | 21.0 | % | | $ | (10) | | | (16.1) | % | | $ | (445) | | | 22.1 | % |
U.S. state and Canadian provincial tax expense (benefit), net of federal income tax effect | (33) | | | 1.6 | % | | 27 | | | 43.5 | % | | (6) | | | 0.3 | % |
Permanent differences | (23) | | | 1.1 | % | | 15 | | | 24.2 | % | | (8) | | | 0.4 | % |
CARES Act (b) | (360) | | | 17.4 | % | | — | | | — | | | (360) | | | 17.9 | % |
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Lapse of federal statute of limitations | (39) | | | 1.8 | % | | — | | | — | | | (39) | | | 1.9 | % |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Change in tax law | — | | | — | % | | 21 | | | 33.9 | % | | 21 | | | (1.0) | % |
Tax effects of income associated with noncontrolling interests | (66) | | | 3.2 | % | | (8) | | | (12.9) | % | | (74) | | | 3.7 | % |
Other, net | 7 | | | (0.3) | % | | 1 | | | 1.6 | % | | 8 | | | (0.4) | % |
Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | (949) | | | 45.8 | % | | $ | 46 | | | 74.2 | % | | $ | (903) | | | 44.9 | % |
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(a)During the three months ended June 30, 2021, certain statutory income tax rate changes (primarily an increase in the U.K. rate from 19 percent to 25 percent effective in 2023) were enacted that resulted in the remeasurement of our deferred tax liabilities and related deferred income tax expense.
(b)See “CARES Act” on page 123 for a discussion of significant changes in tax law in the U.S. that were enacted in 2020.
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Components of income tax expense (benefit) were as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| U.S. | | Foreign | | Total |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | | | | | |
Current: | | | | | |
Country | $ | 2,147 | | | $ | 766 | | | $ | 2,913 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 153 | | | 312 | | | 465 | |
Total current | 2,300 | | | 1,078 | | | 3,378 | |
Deferred: | | | | | |
Country | 164 | | | (138) | | | 26 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 80 | | | (56) | | | 24 | |
Total deferred | 244 | | | (194) | | | 50 | |
Income tax expense | $ | 2,544 | | | $ | 884 | | | $ | 3,428 | |
| | | | | |
Year ended December 31, 2021 | | | | | |
Current: | | | | | |
Country | $ | 68 | | | $ | 215 | | | $ | 283 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 1 | | | 97 | | | 98 | |
Total current | 69 | | | 312 | | | 381 | |
Deferred: | | | | | |
Country | 5 | | | (63) | | | (58) | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | (24) | | | (44) | | | (68) | |
Total deferred | (19) | | | (107) | | | (126) | |
Income tax expense | $ | 50 | | | $ | 205 | | | $ | 255 | |
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Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | |
Current: | | | | | |
Country | $ | (1,033) | | | $ | (34) | | | $ | (1,067) | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | 9 | | | (3) | | | 6 | |
Total current | (1,024) | | | (37) | | | (1,061) | |
Deferred: | | | | | |
Country | 126 | | | 53 | | | 179 | |
U.S. state / Canadian provincial | (51) | | | 30 | | | (21) | |
Total deferred | 75 | | | 83 | | | 158 | |
Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | (949) | | | $ | 46 | | | $ | (903) | |
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Income Taxes Paid (Refunded)
Income taxes paid to (received from) U.S. and foreign taxing authorities were as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, | |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 | |
U.S. | $ | 2,396 | | | $ | (878) | | (a) | $ | 130 | | |
Foreign | 892 | | | 36 | | | 73 | | |
Income taxes paid (refunded), net | $ | 3,288 | | | $ | (842) | | | $ | 203 | | |
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(a)This amount includes a refund of $962 million that we received related to our U.S. federal income tax return for 2020.
Deferred Income Tax Assets and Liabilities
The tax effects of significant temporary differences representing deferred income tax assets and liabilities were as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Deferred income tax assets: | | | |
Tax credit carryforwards | $ | 660 | | | $ | 679 | |
NOLs | 642 | | | 697 | |
Inventories | 326 | | | 217 | |
| | | |
Compensation and employee benefit liabilities | 44 | | | 123 | |
Environmental liabilities | 57 | | | 53 | |
Other | 186 | | | 149 | |
Total deferred income tax assets | 1,915 | | | 1,918 | |
Valuation allowance | (1,234) | | | (1,262) | |
Net deferred income tax assets | 681 | | | 656 | |
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Deferred income tax liabilities: | | | |
Property, plant, and equipment | 4,708 | | | 4,866 | |
Deferred turnaround costs | 369 | | | 308 | |
Inventories | 234 | | | 191 | |
Investments | 431 | | | 268 | |
Other | 156 | | | 233 | |
Total deferred income tax liabilities | 5,898 | | | 5,866 | |
Net deferred income tax liabilities | $ | 5,217 | | | $ | 5,210 | |
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We had the following income tax credit and loss carryforwards as of December 31, 2022 (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| Amount | | Expiration |
U.S. state income tax credits (gross amount) | $ | 73 | | | 2023 through 2033 |
U.S. state income tax credits (gross amount) | 5 | | | Unlimited |
U.S. foreign tax credits | 598 | | | 2027 |
U.S. state income tax NOLs (gross amount) | 12,002 | | | 2023 through 2040 |
U.S. state income tax NOLs (gross amount) | 390 | | | Unlimited |
| | | |
Foreign NOLs (gross amount) | 9 | | | Unlimited |
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We have recorded a valuation allowance as of December 31, 2022and 2021due to uncertainties related to our ability to utilize some of our deferred income tax assets associated with our U.S. foreign tax credits, certain U.S. state income tax credits, certain foreign deferred tax assets, and certain NOLs before they expire. The valuation allowance is based on our estimates of future taxable income in the various jurisdictions in which we operate and the period over which deferred income tax assets will be recoverable. The valuation allowance decreased by $28 million in 2022 primarily due to increases in the realizability of assets and NOLs in a foreign jurisdiction.
Unrecognized Tax Benefits
Change in Unrecognized Tax Benefits
The following is a reconciliation of the change in unrecognized tax benefits, excluding related interest and penalties, (in millions):
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| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Balance as of beginning of year | $ | 816 | | | $ | 847 | | | $ | 897 | |
Additions for tax positions related to the current year | 27 | | | 3 | | | 5 | |
Additions for tax positions related to prior years | 19 | | | 13 | | | 9 | |
Reductions for tax positions related to prior years | (573) | | | (25) | | | (20) | |
Reductions for tax positions related to the lapse of applicable statute of limitations | (5) | | | — | | | (44) | |
Settlements | — | | | (22) | | | — | |
| | | | | |
Balance as of end of year | $ | 284 | | | $ | 816 | | | $ | 847 | |
Liability for Unrecognized Tax Benefits
The following is a reconciliation of unrecognized tax benefits to our liability for unrecognized tax benefits presented in our balance sheets (in millions).
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Unrecognized tax benefits | $ | 284 | | | $ | 816 | |
Tax refund claims not yet filed but that we intend to file | — | | | (28) | |
Interest and penalties | 105 | | | 86 | |
Liability for unrecognized tax benefits presented in our balance sheets | $ | 389 | | | $ | 874 | |
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Our liability for unrecognized tax benefits is reflected in the following balance sheet line items (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 |
Deferred charges and other assets, net | $ | (26) | | | $ | — | |
Income taxes payable | 169 | | | 1 | |
Other long-term liabilities | 239 | | | 863 | |
Deferred tax liabilities | 7 | | | 10 | |
Liability for unrecognized tax benefits presented in our balance sheets | $ | 389 | | | $ | 874 | |
As of December 31, 2021, our liability for unrecognized tax benefits included $525 million of refund claims associated with taxes paid on incentive payments received from the U.S. federal government for blending biofuels into petroleum-based transportation fuels. We recorded a tax refund receivable of $525 million in connection with our refund claims, but we also recorded a liability for unrecognized tax benefits of $525 million due to the complexity of this matter and uncertainties with respect to sustaining these refund claims. In December 2022, we withdrew our lawsuit regarding this matter. Our financial position, results of operations, and liquidity were not impacted by this withdrawal.
As of December 31, 2022 and 2021, there was $190 million and $762$708 million, respectively, of unrecognized tax benefits that if recognized would reduce our annual effective tax rate.
Interest and penalties incurred during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018 were immaterial.
During the next 12 months, it is reasonably possible that our tax audit resolutions could reduce our liability for unrecognized tax benefits, excluding interest, by approximately $112 million either because our tax positions are sustained upon audit or because we agree to their disallowance. We do not expect these reductions to have a material impact on our financial statements because such reductions would not materially affect our annual effective tax rate.
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Tax Returns Under Audit
U.S. Federal
In 2019, we settled the combined audit related to our U.S. federal income tax returns for 2010 and 2011 and received a refund of $348 million, including interest. We did not have a significant change to our liability for unrecognized tax benefits upon settlement of the audit. As of December 31, 2020,2022, our U.S. federal income tax returns for 2012 through 2015, 2017, and 2018 were under audit by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS has proposed adjustments for certain open years and we are currently contesting the proposed adjustments with the Office of Appeals of the IRS. We are continuingcontinue to work with the IRS to resolve these matters and we believe that they will be resolved for amounts consistent with our recorded amounts of unrecognized tax benefits associated with these matters.
We have amended our U.S federal income tax returns for 2005 through 2011 to exclude from taxable income incentive payments received from the U.S. federal government for blending biofuels into refined petroleum products, and we have claimed $525 million in refunds. The 2005 through 2009 amended return refund claims have been disallowed by the IRS and we are currently evaluating our options to contest the disallowance of these adjustments. As noted above in the discussion of our liability for unrecognized tax benefits, an ultimate disallowance of these refund claims would not negatively impact our financial position, results of operations, and liquidity.
U.S. State
As of December 31, 2020,In 2021, we settled the audits related to our California tax returns for 2004 through 2006. We did not have a significant change to our liability for unrecognized tax benefits upon settlement of the audits. As of December 31, 2022, our California tax returns for 2007 and 2011 through 20162019 were under audit by the state of California. We do not expect the ultimate disposition of these audits will result in a material change to our financial position,condition, results of operations, orand liquidity. We believe these audits will be resolved for amounts consistent with our recorded amounts for unrecognized tax benefits associated with these audits.
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Foreign
As of December 31, 2020,2022, certain of our Canadian subsidiary’ssubsidiaries’ federal tax returns for 2013 through 20162018 were under audit by the Canada Revenue Agency and our Quebec provincial tax returns for 2013 through 20162018 were under audit by Revenue Quebec. WeAlso, we are also protesting proposed adjustments related to our Peruvian subsidiary’s federal tax returnsreturn for 2016 and 2018, which wereis under audit by La Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas y de Administración Tributaria. Additionally,As of December 31, 2022, the 2020 tax return for one of our U.K. subsidiary’sMexican subsidiaries was under audit by Servicio de Administración Tributaria, and we are protesting proposed adjustments for this tax returns for 2017 and 2018 were opened for inquiry by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.return. We do not expect the ultimate disposition of these audits or inquiries will result in a material change to our financial position,condition, results of operations, orand liquidity.
CARES Act
On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act was enacted, which resulted in significant changes to the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.amended (the Code). The most significant changes affecting us were as follows:
•Modification of the limitations previously set by the Tax ReformCuts and Jobs Act of 2017 by providing that tax NOLs arising in a tax year beginning in 2018, 2019, or 2020 can be carried back five years. This provision allows the taxpayer to recover taxes previously paid at a 35 percent federal income tax rate during
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tax years prior to 2018. In addition, the CARES Act removed the taxable income limitation to allow a tax NOL to fully offset taxable income for tax years beginning before January 1, 2021.
•Increased the deductibility of interest expense from 30 percent to 50 percent of adjusted taxable income for 2019 and 2020. Also, a taxpayer can elect to use its 2019 adjusted taxable income in 2020 to determine the deductible amount of interest expense in that year.
Our income tax benefit for the year ended December 31, 2020 included a tax benefit of $360 million attributable to the tax NOL carryback provided under the CARES Act for our 2020 tax NOL to our 2015 tax year in which we paid federal income taxes at a 35 percent tax rate. The variationUpon filing our superseding 2020 federal income tax return in the customary relationshipfourth quarter of our effective2021, we recorded an additional tax rate to the U.S. federal statutory rate forbenefit of $56 million during the year ended December 31, 2021 related to the additional 2020 was primarily duetax NOL carryback to this income tax benefit.2015.
Other Disclosures
Undistributed Earnings of Foreign Subsidiaries
As of December 31, 2022, the cumulative undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries that is considered permanently reinvested in the relevant foreign countries were $7.6 billion. This amount excludes $1 billion of earnings that are no longer considered permanently reinvested. We are able to distribute cash via a dividend from our foreign subsidiaries with a full dividend received deduction in the U.S. However, there is a cost to repatriate the undistributed earnings of certain of our foreign subsidiaries to us, including, but not limited to, withholding taxes imposed by certain foreign jurisdictions, U.S. state income taxes, and U.S. federal income tax on foreign exchange gains. We have accrued $51 million of withholding and other taxes on the $1 billion of earnings previously noted, but it is not practicable to estimate the amount of additional tax that would be payable on the undistributed earnings that are considered permanently reinvested.
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17.Our repatriation tax liability relates to our recognition of a one-time transition tax on the deemed repatriation of previously undistributed accumulated earnings and profits of our foreign subsidiaries and is included in other long-term liabilities (see Note 7). This transition tax will be remitted to the IRS over the eight-year period provided in the Code, with annual installments through 2025.
Interest and Penalties
Interest and penalties incurred during the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020 were not material.
15. EARNINGS (LOSS) PER COMMON SHARE
Earnings (loss) per common share werewas computed as follows (dollars and shares in millions, except per share amounts):
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Earnings (loss) per common share | | | | | | |
Earnings (loss) per common share: | | Earnings (loss) per common share: | | | | | |
Net income (loss) attributable to Valero stockholders | Net income (loss) attributable to Valero stockholders | $ | (1,421) | | | $ | 2,422 | | | $ | 3,122 | | Net income (loss) attributable to Valero stockholders | $ | 11,528 | | | $ | 930 | | | $ | (1,421) | |
Less: Income allocated to participating securities | Less: Income allocated to participating securities | 5 | | | 7 | | | 9 | | Less: Income allocated to participating securities | 43 | | | 6 | | | 5 | |
Net income (loss) available to common shareholders | $ | (1,426) | | | $ | 2,415 | | | $ | 3,113 | | |
Net income (loss) available to common stockholders | | Net income (loss) available to common stockholders | $ | 11,485 | | | $ | 924 | | | $ | (1,426) | |
| Weighted-average common shares outstanding | Weighted-average common shares outstanding | 407 | | | 413 | | | 426 | | Weighted-average common shares outstanding | 395 | | | 407 | | | 407 | |
| Earnings (loss) per common share | Earnings (loss) per common share | $ | (3.50) | | | $ | 5.84 | | | $ | 7.30 | | Earnings (loss) per common share | $ | 29.05 | | | $ | 2.27 | | | $ | (3.50) | |
| Earnings (loss) per common share – assuming dilution | | |
Earnings (loss) per common share – assuming dilution: | | Earnings (loss) per common share – assuming dilution: | |
Net income (loss) attributable to Valero stockholders | Net income (loss) attributable to Valero stockholders | $ | (1,421) | | | $ | 2,422 | | | $ | 3,122 | | Net income (loss) attributable to Valero stockholders | $ | 11,528 | | | $ | 930 | | | $ | (1,421) | |
Less: Income allocated to participating securities | Less: Income allocated to participating securities | 5 | | | 7 | | | 9 | | Less: Income allocated to participating securities | 43 | | | 6 | | | 5 | |
Net income (loss) available to common shareholders | $ | (1,426) | | | $ | 2,415 | | | $ | 3,113 | | |
Net income (loss) available to common stockholders | | Net income (loss) available to common stockholders | $ | 11,485 | | | $ | 924 | | | $ | (1,426) | |
| Weighted-average common shares outstanding | Weighted-average common shares outstanding | 407 | | | 413 | | | 426 | | Weighted-average common shares outstanding | 395 | | | 407 | | | 407 | |
Effect of dilutive securities | Effect of dilutive securities | 0 | | | 1 | | | 2 | | Effect of dilutive securities | 1 | | | — | | | — | |
Weighted-average common shares outstanding – assuming dilution | Weighted-average common shares outstanding – assuming dilution | 407 | | | 414 | | | 428 | | Weighted-average common shares outstanding – assuming dilution | 396 | | | 407 | | | 407 | |
| Earnings (loss) per common share – assuming dilution | Earnings (loss) per common share – assuming dilution | $ | (3.50) | | | $ | 5.84 | | | $ | 7.29 | | Earnings (loss) per common share – assuming dilution | $ | 29.04 | | | $ | 2.27 | | | $ | (3.50) | |
Participating securities include restricted stock and performance awards granted under our 2020 OSIP or our 2011 OSIP. Dilutive securities include participating securities as well as outstanding stock options granted under our 2020 OSIP or our 2011 OSIP.options.
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18.16. REVENUES AND SEGMENT INFORMATION
Revenue from Contracts with Customers
Disaggregation of Revenue
Revenue is presented in the table below under “Segment Information” disaggregated by product because this is the level of disaggregation that management has determined to be beneficial to users of our financial statements.
Contract Balances
Contract balances were as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, | | |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | Decrease |
Receivables from contracts with customers, included in receivables, net | $ | 3,642 | | | $ | 5,610 | | | $ | (1,968) | |
Contract liabilities, included in accrued expenses | 55 | | | 55 | | | 0 | |
Receivables from contracts with customers is a component of “receivables, net” as presented in Note 4. The decrease in “receivables, net” is described in Note 19. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| December 31, | | |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | |
Receivables from contracts with customers (see Note 2) | $ | 7,189 | | | $ | 6,228 | | | |
Contract liabilities, included in accrued expenses (see Note 7) | 129 | | | 78 | | | |
During the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018,2020, we recognized as revenue $50$76 million, $31$47 million, and $54$50 million, respectively, that was included in contract liabilities as of December 31, 2019, 2018,2021, 2020, and 2017,2019, respectively.
Remaining Performance Obligations
We have spot and term contracts with customers, the majority of which are spot contracts with no remaining performance obligations. We do not disclose remaining performance obligations for contracts that have terms of one year or less. The transaction price for our remaining term contracts includes a fixed component and variable consideration (i.e., a commodity price), both of which are allocated entirely to a wholly unsatisfied promise to transfer a distinct good that forms part of a single performance obligation. The fixed component is notmaterial and the variable consideration is highly uncertain. Therefore, as of December 31, 2020,2022, we have not disclosed the aggregate amount of the transaction price allocated to our remaining performance obligations.
Segment Information
We have 3three reportable segments — refining, renewable diesel,Refining, Renewable Diesel, and ethanol.Ethanol. Each segment is a strategic business unit that offers different products and services by employing unique technologies and marketing strategies and whose operations and operating performance are managed and evaluated separately. Operating performance is measured based on the operating income generated by the segment, which includes revenues and expenses that are directly attributable to the management of the respective segment. Intersegment sales are generally derived from transactions made at prevailing market rates. The following is a description of each segment’s business operations.
•The refiningRefining segment includes the operations of our petroleum refineries, the associated marketing activities to market our refined petroleum products, and the logistics assets that support our refining operations. The principal products manufactured by our refineries and sold by this segment include gasolines and blendstocks, distillates, and other products.
•The Renewable Diesel segment represents the operations of DGD, a consolidated joint venture as discussed in Note 11, and the associated activities to market renewable diesel and renewable
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products manufactured by our refineries and sold by this segment include gasolines and blendstocks, distillates, and other products.
•The renewable diesel segment represents the operations of DGD, our consolidated joint venture as discussed in Note 13.naphtha. The principal productproducts manufactured by DGD and sold by this segment isare renewable diesel.diesel and renewable naphtha. This segment sells some renewable diesel to the refiningRefining segment, which is then sold to that segment’s customers.
•The ethanolEthanol segment includes the operations of our ethanol plants and the associated marketing activities and logistics assets that supportto market our ethanol operations.and co-products. The principal products manufactured by our ethanol plants are ethanol and distillers grains. This segment sells some ethanol to the refiningRefining segment for blending into gasoline, which is sold to that segment’s customers as a finished gasoline product.
Operations that are not included in any of the reportable segments are included in the corporate category.
The following tables reflect information about our operating income (loss) and total expenditures for long-lived assets by reportable segment (in millions):
| | | Refining | | Renewable Diesel | | Ethanol | | Corporate and Eliminations | | Total | | Refining | | Renewable Diesel | | Ethanol | | Corporate and Eliminations | | Total |
Year ended December 31, 2020 | | | | | | | | | | |
Year ended December 31, 2022 | | Year ended December 31, 2022 | | | | | | | | | |
Revenues: | Revenues: | | Revenues: | |
Revenues from external customers | Revenues from external customers | $ | 60,840 | | | $ | 1,055 | | | $ | 3,017 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 64,912 | | Revenues from external customers | $ | 168,154 | | | $ | 3,483 | | | $ | 4,746 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 176,383 | |
Intersegment revenues | Intersegment revenues | 8 | | | 212 | | | 226 | | | (446) | | | — | | Intersegment revenues | 56 | | | 2,018 | | | 740 | | | (2,814) | | | — | |
Total revenues | Total revenues | 60,848 | | | 1,267 | | | 3,243 | | | (446) | | | 64,912 | | Total revenues | 168,210 | | | 5,501 | | | 5,486 | | | (2,814) | | | 176,383 | |
Cost of sales: | Cost of sales: | | | | | | | | | | Cost of sales: | | | | | | | | | |
Cost of materials and other(a) | Cost of materials and other(a) | 56,093 | | | 500 | | | 2,784 | | | (444) | | | 58,933 | | Cost of materials and other(a) | 144,588 | | | 4,350 | | | 4,628 | | | (2,796) | | | 150,770 | |
LCM inventory valuation adjustment | (19) | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | (19) | | |
| Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 3,944 | | | 85 | | | 406 | | | 0 | | | 4,435 | | Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 5,509 | | | 255 | | | 625 | | | — | | | 6,389 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,138 | | | 44 | | | 121 | | | 0 | | | 2,303 | | Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,247 | | | 122 | | | 59 | | | — | | | 2,428 | |
Total cost of sales | Total cost of sales | 62,156 | | | 629 | | | 3,311 | | | (444) | | | 65,652 | | Total cost of sales | 152,344 | | | 4,727 | | | 5,312 | | | (2,796) | | | 159,587 | |
Asset impairment loss | | Asset impairment loss | — | | | — | | | 61 | | | — | | | 61 | |
Other operating expenses | Other operating expenses | 34 | | | 0 | | | 1 | | | 0 | | | 35 | | Other operating expenses | 63 | | | — | | | 3 | | | — | | | 66 | |
General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 756 | | | 756 | | General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | — | | | — | | | — | | | 934 | | | 934 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | Depreciation and amortization expense | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 48 | | | 48 | | Depreciation and amortization expense | — | | | — | | | — | | | 45 | | | 45 | |
Operating income by segment | | Operating income by segment | $ | 15,803 | | | $ | 774 | | | $ | 110 | | | $ | (997) | | | $ | 15,690 | |
| Operating income (loss) by segment | $ | (1,342) | | | $ | 638 | | | $ | (69) | | | $ | (806) | | | $ | (1,579) | | |
| Total expenditures for long-lived assets (a) | $ | 1,838 | | | $ | 548 | | | $ | 23 | | | $ | 27 | | | $ | 2,436 | | |
Total expenditures for long-lived assets (b) | | Total expenditures for long-lived assets (b) | $ | 1,763 | | | $ | 879 | | | $ | 22 | | | $ | 73 | | | $ | 2,737 | |
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(a)See notenotes on page 124.127.
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| | | Refining | | Renewable Diesel | | Ethanol | | Corporate and Eliminations | | Total | | Refining | | Renewable Diesel | | Ethanol | | Corporate and Eliminations | | Total |
Year ended December 31, 2019 | | | | | | | | | | |
Year ended December 31, 2021 | | Year ended December 31, 2021 | | | | | | | | | |
Revenues: | Revenues: | | Revenues: | |
Revenues from external customers | Revenues from external customers | $ | 103,746 | | | $ | 970 | | | $ | 3,606 | | | $ | 2 | | | $ | 108,324 | | Revenues from external customers | $ | 106,947 | | | $ | 1,874 | | | $ | 5,156 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 113,977 | |
Intersegment revenues | Intersegment revenues | 18 | | | 247 | | | 231 | | | (496) | | | — | | Intersegment revenues | 14 | | | 468 | | | 433 | | | (915) | | | — | |
Total revenues | Total revenues | 103,764 | | | 1,217 | | | 3,837 | | | (494) | | | 108,324 | | Total revenues | 106,961 | | | 2,342 | | | 5,589 | | | (915) | | | 113,977 | |
Cost of sales: | Cost of sales: | | | | | | | | | | Cost of sales: | | | | | | | | | |
Cost of materials and other(a) | Cost of materials and other(a) | 93,371 | | | 360 | | | 3,239 | | | (494) | | | 96,476 | | Cost of materials and other(a) | 97,759 | | | 1,438 | | | 4,428 | | | (911) | | | 102,714 | |
| Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 4,289 | | | 75 | | | 504 | | | 0 | | | 4,868 | | Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 5,088 | | | 134 | | | 556 | | | (2) | | | 5,776 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,062 | | | 50 | | | 90 | | | 0 | | | 2,202 | | Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,169 | | | 58 | | | 131 | | | — | | | 2,358 | |
| Total cost of sales | Total cost of sales | 99,722 | | | 485 | | | 3,833 | | | (494) | | | 103,546 | | Total cost of sales | 105,016 | | | 1,630 | | | 5,115 | | | (913) | | | 110,848 | |
Other operating expenses | Other operating expenses | 20 | | | 0 | | | 1 | | | 0 | | | 21 | | Other operating expenses | 83 | | | 3 | | | 1 | | | — | | | 87 | |
General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 868 | | | 868 | | General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | — | | | — | | | — | | | 865 | | | 865 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | Depreciation and amortization expense | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 53 | | | 53 | | Depreciation and amortization expense | — | | | — | | | — | | | 47 | | | 47 | |
| Operating income by segment | Operating income by segment | $ | 4,022 | | | $ | 732 | | | $ | 3 | | | $ | (921) | | | $ | 3,836 | | Operating income by segment | $ | 1,862 | | | $ | 709 | | | $ | 473 | | | $ | (914) | | | $ | 2,130 | |
| Total expenditures for long-lived assets (a) | $ | 2,581 | | | $ | 160 | | | $ | 47 | | | $ | 58 | | | $ | 2,846 | | |
Total expenditures for long-lived assets (b) | | Total expenditures for long-lived assets (b) | $ | 1,374 | | | $ | 1,049 | | | $ | 18 | | | $ | 17 | | | $ | 2,458 | |
| | Year ended December 31, 2018 | | |
Year ended December 31, 2020 | | Year ended December 31, 2020 | |
Revenues: | Revenues: | | Revenues: | |
Revenues from external customers | Revenues from external customers | $ | 113,093 | | | $ | 508 | | | $ | 3,428 | | | $ | 4 | | | $ | 117,033 | | Revenues from external customers | $ | 60,840 | | | $ | 1,055 | | | $ | 3,017 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 64,912 | |
Intersegment revenues | Intersegment revenues | 25 | | | 170 | | | 210 | | | (405) | | | — | | Intersegment revenues | 8 | | | 212 | | | 226 | | | (446) | | | — | |
Total revenues | Total revenues | 113,118 | | | 678 | | | 3,638 | | | (401) | | | 117,033 | | Total revenues | 60,848 | | | 1,267 | | | 3,243 | | | (446) | | | 64,912 | |
Cost of sales: | Cost of sales: | | | | | | | | | | Cost of sales: | | | | | | | | | |
Cost of materials and other(a) | Cost of materials and other(a) | 101,866 | | | 262 | | | 3,008 | | | (404) | | | 104,732 | | Cost of materials and other(a) | 56,093 | | | 500 | | | 2,784 | | | (444) | | | 58,933 | |
LCM inventory valuation adjustment | | LCM inventory valuation adjustment | (19) | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (19) | |
Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 4,154 | | | 66 | | | 470 | | | 0 | | | 4,690 | | Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 3,944 | | | 85 | | | 406 | | | — | | | 4,435 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | Depreciation and amortization expense | 1,910 | | | 29 | | | 78 | | | 0 | | | 2,017 | | Depreciation and amortization expense | 2,138 | | | 44 | | | 121 | | | — | | | 2,303 | |
| Total cost of sales | Total cost of sales | 107,930 | | | 357 | | | 3,556 | | | (404) | | | 111,439 | | Total cost of sales | 62,156 | | | 629 | | | 3,311 | | | (444) | | | 65,652 | |
Other operating expenses | Other operating expenses | 45 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 45 | | Other operating expenses | 34 | | | — | | | 1 | | | — | | | 35 | |
General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 925 | | | 925 | | General and administrative expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense reflected below) | — | | | — | | | — | | | 756 | | | 756 | |
Depreciation and amortization expense | Depreciation and amortization expense | 0 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 52 | | | 52 | | Depreciation and amortization expense | — | | | — | | | — | | | 48 | | | 48 | |
| Operating income (loss) by segment | | Operating income (loss) by segment | $ | (1,342) | | | $ | 638 | | | $ | (69) | | | $ | (806) | | | $ | (1,579) | |
| Operating income by segment | $ | 5,143 | | | $ | 321 | | | $ | 82 | | | $ | (974) | | | $ | 4,572 | | |
| Total expenditures for long-lived assets (a) | $ | 2,767 | | | $ | 192 | | | $ | 373 | | | $ | 44 | | | $ | 3,376 | | |
Total expenditures for long-lived assets (b) | | Total expenditures for long-lived assets (b) | $ | 1,838 | | | $ | 548 | | | $ | 23 | | | $ | 27 | | | $ | 2,436 | |
________________________(a)Cost of materials and other for our Renewable Diesel segment is net of the blender’s tax credit on qualified fuel mixtures of $761 million, $371 million, and $288 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
(a)(b)Total expenditures for long-lived assets includes amounts related to capital expenditures; deferred turnaround and catalyst costs; and property, plant, and equipment for acquisitions.
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The following table provides a disaggregation of revenues from external customers for our principal products by reportable segment (in millions):
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Refining: | Refining: | | | | | | Refining: | | | | | |
Gasolines and blendstocks | Gasolines and blendstocks | $ | 26,278 | | | $ | 42,798 | | | $ | 46,596 | | Gasolines and blendstocks | $ | 70,496 | | | $ | 49,534 | | | $ | 26,278 | |
Distillates | Distillates | 28,234 | | | 51,942 | | | 55,037 | | Distillates | 82,521 | | | 45,939 | | | 28,234 | |
| Other product revenues | Other product revenues | 6,328 | | | 9,006 | | | 11,460 | | Other product revenues | 15,137 | | | 11,474 | | | 6,328 | |
Total refining revenues | 60,840 | | | 103,746 | | | 113,093 | | |
Renewable diesel: | | | | | | |
Total Refining revenues | | Total Refining revenues | 168,154 | | | 106,947 | | | 60,840 | |
Renewable Diesel: | | Renewable Diesel: | | | | | |
Renewable diesel | Renewable diesel | 1,055 | | | 970 | | | 508 | | Renewable diesel | 3,333 | | | 1,874 | | | 1,055 | |
Renewable naphtha | | Renewable naphtha | 150 | | | — | | | — | |
Total Renewable Diesel revenues | | Total Renewable Diesel revenues | 3,483 | | | 1,874 | | | 1,055 | |
Ethanol: | Ethanol: | | | | | | Ethanol: | | | | | |
Ethanol | Ethanol | 2,353 | | | 2,889 | | | 2,713 | | Ethanol | 3,653 | | | 4,122 | | | 2,353 | |
Distillers grains | Distillers grains | 664 | | | 717 | | | 715 | | Distillers grains | 1,093 | | | 1,034 | | | 664 | |
Total ethanol revenues | 3,017 | | | 3,606 | | | 3,428 | | |
Corporate – other revenues | 0 | | | 2 | | | 4 | | |
Total Ethanol revenues | | Total Ethanol revenues | 4,746 | | | 5,156 | | | 3,017 | |
| | Revenues | Revenues | $ | 64,912 | | | $ | 108,324 | | | $ | 117,033 | | Revenues | $ | 176,383 | | | $ | 113,977 | | | $ | 64,912 | |
Revenues by geographic area are shown in the following table (in millions). The geographic area is based on location of customer and no customer accounted for 10 percent or more of our revenues.
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
U.S. | U.S. | $ | 45,174 | | | $ | 77,173 | | | $ | 82,992 | | U.S. | $ | 126,722 | | | $ | 82,940 | | | $ | 45,174 | |
Canada | Canada | 4,294 | | | 7,915 | | | 9,211 | | Canada | 11,743 | | | 6,597 | | | 4,294 | |
U.K. and Ireland | U.K. and Ireland | 9,268 | | | 13,584 | | | 15,208 | | U.K. and Ireland | 17,822 | | | 13,307 | | | 9,268 | |
Other countries | Other countries | 6,176 | | | 9,652 | | | 9,622 | | Other countries | 20,096 | | | 11,133 | | | 6,176 | |
Revenues | Revenues | $ | 64,912 | | | $ | 108,324 | | | $ | 117,033 | | Revenues | $ | 176,383 | | | $ | 113,977 | | | $ | 64,912 | |
Long-lived assets include property, plant, and equipment and certain long-lived assets included in “deferred charges and other assets, net.” Long-lived assets by geographic area consisted of the following (in millions):
| | | December 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
U.S. | U.S. | $ | 28,184 | | | $ | 27,485 | | U.S. | $ | 29,378 | | | $ | 28,518 | |
Canada | Canada | 1,877 | | | 1,886 | | Canada | 1,634 | | | 1,855 | |
U.K. and Ireland | U.K. and Ireland | 1,353 | | | 1,232 | | U.K. and Ireland | 1,301 | | | 1,528 | |
Mexico and Peru | Mexico and Peru | 738 | | | 497 | | Mexico and Peru | 860 | | | 859 | |
Total long-lived assets | Total long-lived assets | $ | 32,152 | | | $ | 31,100 | | Total long-lived assets | $ | 33,173 | | | $ | 32,760 | |
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Total assets by reportable segment were as follows (in millions):
| | | December 31, | | December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
Refining | Refining | $ | 42,939 | | | $ | 46,613 | | Refining | $ | 48,484 | | | $ | 47,365 | |
Renewable diesel | 1,659 | | | 1,412 | | |
Renewable Diesel | | Renewable Diesel | 5,217 | | | 3,437 | |
Ethanol | Ethanol | 1,728 | | | 2,069 | | Ethanol | 1,551 | | | 1,812 | |
Corporate and eliminations | Corporate and eliminations | 5,448 | | | 3,770 | | Corporate and eliminations | 5,730 | | | 5,274 | |
Total assets | Total assets | $ | 51,774 | | | $ | 53,864 | | Total assets | $ | 60,982 | | | $ | 57,888 | |
As of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, our investments in unconsolidatednonconsolidated joint ventures accounted for under the equity method were $972$724 million and $942$734 million, respectively, all of which related to the refiningRefining segment and are reflected in “deferred charges and other assets, net” as presented in Note 8.6.
19.17. SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION
In order to determine net cash provided by operating activities, net income (loss) is adjusted by, among other things, changes in current assets and current liabilities as follows (in millions):
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Decrease (increase) in current assets: | Decrease (increase) in current assets: | | | | | | Decrease (increase) in current assets: | | | | | |
Receivables, net | Receivables, net | $ | 2,773 | | | $ | (1,041) | | | $ | (460) | | Receivables, net | $ | (1,619) | | | $ | (4,382) | | | $ | 2,773 | |
Inventories | Inventories | 1,007 | | | (385) | | | (197) | | Inventories | (672) | | | (253) | | | 1,007 | |
| Prepaid expenses and other | Prepaid expenses and other | 101 | | | 0 | | | (74) | | Prepaid expenses and other | (180) | | | (22) | | | 101 | |
Increase (decrease) in current liabilities: | Increase (decrease) in current liabilities: | | Increase (decrease) in current liabilities: | |
Accounts payable | Accounts payable | (4,068) | | | 1,534 | | | 304 | | Accounts payable | 521 | | | 6,301 | | | (4,068) | |
Accrued expenses | Accrued expenses | 48 | | | (27) | | | (113) | | Accrued expenses | (5) | | | 253 | | | 48 | |
Taxes other than income taxes payable | Taxes other than income taxes payable | 37 | | | 60 | | | (73) | | Taxes other than income taxes payable | 98 | | | 104 | | | 37 | |
Income taxes payable | Income taxes payable | (243) | | | 153 | | | (684) | | Income taxes payable | 231 | | | 224 | | | (243) | |
Changes in current assets and current liabilities | Changes in current assets and current liabilities | $ | (345) | | | $ | 294 | | | $ | (1,297) | | Changes in current assets and current liabilities | $ | (1,626) | | | $ | 2,225 | | | $ | (345) | |
Changes in current assets and current liabilities for the year ended December 31, 20202022 were as follows:primarily due to the following:
•the decreaseThe increase in receivables was primarily due to (i) a decrease of $3.3 billion as a result of a decreasean increase in sales volumes combined witha decrease in commodityrefined petroleum product prices in December 20202022 compared to December 2019, (ii) the collection of $449 million for a blender’s tax credit receivable attributable to volumes blended during 2019 and 2018, and (iii) an increase in income taxes receivable of $1.0 billion primarily due to the recognition of a current income tax benefit;2021;
•the decreaseThe increase in inventories was primarily due to a reduction of higher-costan increase in inventory volumes associated with the DGD Port Arthur Plant, which commenced operations in our refining segmentthe fourth quarter; and
•The increase in accounts payable was primarily due to an increase in feedstock volumes purchased for the start-up of the DGD Port Arthur Plant in December 20202022 compared to December 2019; and2021.
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Changes in current assets and current liabilities for the year ended December 31, 2021 were primarily due to the following:
•The increase in receivables was primarily due to an increase in refined petroleum product prices in December 2021 compared to December 2020 combined with an increase in refined petroleum product sales volumes, partially offset by a decrease in income taxes receivable associated with the receipt of a $962 million refund related to our U.S. federal income tax return for 2020; and
•The increase in accounts payable was primarily due to an increase in crude oil and other feedstock prices in December 2021 compared to December 2020 combined with an increase in crude oil and other feedstock volumes purchased.
Changes in current assets and current liabilities for the year ended December 31, 2020 were primarily due to the following:
•The decrease in receivables was due to (i) a decrease of $3.3 billion as a result of a decrease in sales volumes combined witha decrease in the prices of our products in December 2020 compared to December 2019 and (ii) the collection of $449 million for a blender’s tax credit receivable attributable to volumes blended during 2019 and 2018, partially offset by an increase in income taxes receivable of $1.0 billion primarily due to the recognition of a current income tax benefit;
•The decrease in inventories was primarily due to a reduction of higher-cost inventory volumes in our Refining segment in December 2020 compared to December 2019; and
•The decrease in accounts payable was due to a decrease in crude oil and other feedstock volumes purchased combined with a decrease in commoditycrude oil and other feedstock prices in December 2020 compared to December 2019.
Changes in current assetsCash flows related to interest and current liabilities for the year ended December 31, 2019income taxes were as follows:follows (in millions):
•the increase in receivables was due to (i) an increase in commodity prices and sales volumes in December 2019 compared to December 2018, (ii) a receivable of $449 million for the blender’s tax credit attributable to volumes blended during 2019 and 2018, and (iii) an income tax refund of $348 million, including interest, associated with the settlement of the combined audit related to our U.S. federal income tax returns for 2010 and 2011;
•the increase in inventories was due to an increase in commodity prices and higher inventory levels in December 2019 compared to December 2018;
•the increase in accounts payable was due to an increase in commodity prices in December 2019 compared to December 2018 combined with an increase in crude oil and other feedstock volumes purchased and the timing of payments of invoices; and
•the increase in income taxes payable was primarily due to higher pre-tax income in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Changes in current assets and current liabilities for the year ended December 31, 2018 were as follows:
•the increase in receivables was due to an increase in sales volumes, partially offset by a decrease in commodity prices in December 2018 compared to December 2017;
•the increase in inventories was primarily due to higher inventory levels in December 2018 compared to December 2017;
•the increase in accounts payable was due to an increase in crude oil and other feedstock volumes purchased, partially offset by a decrease in commodity prices in December 2018 compared to December 2017;
•the decrease in accrued expenses was mainly due to the timing of payments on our environmental compliance program obligations; and
•the decrease in income taxes payable was primarily due to (i) $527 million of payments in early 2018 related to 2017 tax liabilities and (ii) $181 million of payments in late 2018 that were applied to 2019 tax liabilities. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
Interest paid in excess of amount capitalized, including interest on finance leases | $ | 570 | | | $ | 598 | | | $ | 526 | |
Income taxes paid (refunded), net (see Note 14) | 3,288 | | | (842) | | | 203 | |
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Cash flows related to interest and income taxes were as follows (in millions):
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Year Ended December 31, |
| 2020 | | 2019 | | 2018 |
Interest paid in excess of amount capitalized, including interest on finance leases | $ | 526 | | | $ | 452 | | | $ | 463 | |
Income taxes paid (refunded), net (see Note 16) | 203 | | | (116) | | | 1,361 | |
Supplemental cash flow information related to our operating and finance leases was as follows (in millions):
| | | Year Ended December 31, | | Year Ended December 31, |
| | 2020 | | 2019 | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2020 |
| | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases | | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases | | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases | | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases | | Operating Leases | | Finance Leases |
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities: | Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities: | | | | | | | | Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | | |
Operating cash flows | Operating cash flows | $ | 444 | | | $ | 97 | | | $ | 441 | | | $ | 50 | | Operating cash flows | $ | 395 | | | $ | 83 | | | $ | 397 | | | $ | 72 | | | $ | 444 | | | $ | 97 | |
Investing cash flows | Investing cash flows | 1 | | | — | | | 1 | | | — | | Investing cash flows | — | | | — | | | 1 | | | — | | | 1 | | | — | |
Financing cash flows | Financing cash flows | — | | | 80 | | | — | | | 40 | | Financing cash flows | — | | | 180 | | | — | | | 135 | | | — | | | 80 | |
Changes in lease balances resulting from new and modified leases (a) | Changes in lease balances resulting from new and modified leases (a) | 263 | | | 950 | | | 1,756 | | | 239 | | Changes in lease balances resulting from new and modified leases (a) | 178 | | | 660 | | | 451 | | | 378 | | | 263 | | | 950 | |
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(a)Noncash activity for the year ended December 31, 2022 primarily included approximately $500 million for a finance lease ROU asset and related liability recognized in connection with the completion of the DGD Port Arthur Plant described in Note 4.
Noncash activity for the year ended December 31, 2020 primarily included approximately $800 million for a finance lease ROU asset and related liability recognized in connection with the terminaling agreement with MVP described in Note 6. Noncash activity for the year ended December 31, 2019 included $1.3 billion for operating lease ROU assets and related liabilities recorded on January 1, 2019 upon adoptionMVP. Upon completion of Topic 842.
Prior to our adoption of Topic 842 in 2019, we were considered the accounting ownerconstruction of the MVP Terminal during its construction due to our membership interest in MVPthe first quarter of 2020, we recognized a finance lease ROU asset and because we determined thatrelated liability of approximately $1.4 billion in connection with the terminaling agreement was a capital lease. Accordingly, aswith MVP to utilize the MVP Terminal for an initial term of December 31, 2018,12 years and renewal option periods. In the fourth quarter of 2020 in connection with our review of certain of our logistics investments, including MVP, we had recorded an asset of $539notified MVP that we would not renew the terminaling agreement after its initial noncancelable term. Consequently, we derecognized approximately $600 million in property, plant, and equipment representing 100 percent of the construction costs incurred by MVP, as well as capitalized interest incurred by us,finance lease liability and a long-term liability of $292 million payable to Magellan. The amounts recorded for the portion of the construction costs associated with the payable to Magellanrelated ROU asset, which were noncash financing and investing activities, respectively.
There were no significant noncash investing and financing activities respectively, forduring the yearyears ended December 31, 2018. Noncash investing2022, 2021, and financing activities for2020, except as noted in the year ended December 31, 2018 also included the recognition of finance lease assets and related obligations primarily for the lease of storage tanks.
On January 1, 2019, as a result of our adoption of Topic 842, we derecognized the asset and liability related to MVP discussed above and recorded our equity investment in MVP of $247 million, which is included in “deferred charges and other assets, net.” These amounts were noncash investing and financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2019.table above.
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There were no significant noncash investing and financing activities during the year ended December 31, 2020, except as noted in the table above.
20.18. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS
General
U.S. GAAP requires or permits certain assets and liabilities to be measured at fair value on a recurring or nonrecurring basis in our balance sheets, and those assets and liabilities are presented below under ““Recurring Fair Value Measurements”Measurements” and ““Nonrecurring Fair Value Measurements.Measurements.” Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis, such as derivative financial instruments, are measured at fair value at the end of each reporting period. Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis, such as the impairment of property, plant and equipment, are measured at fair value in particular circumstances.
U.S. GAAP also requires the disclosure of the fair values of financial instruments when an option to elect fair value accounting has been provided, but such election has not been made. A debt obligation is an example of such a financial instrument. The disclosure of the fair values of financial instruments not recognized at fair value in our balance sheet is presented below under ““Other Financial Instruments.Instruments.”
U.S. GAAP provides a framework for measuring fair value and establishes a three-level fair value hierarchy that prioritizes inputs to valuation techniques based on the degree to which objective prices in external active markets are available to measure fair value. The following is a description of each of the levels of the fair value hierarchy.
•Level 1 - Observable inputs, such as unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
•Level 2 - Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. These include quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets and quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active.
•Level 3 - Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability. Unobservable inputs reflect our own assumptions about what market participants would use to price the asset or liability. The inputs are developed based on the best information available in the circumstances, which might include occasional market quotes or sales of similar instruments or our own financial data such as internally developed pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies, as well as instruments for which the fair value determination requires significant judgment.
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Recurring Fair Value Measurements
The following tables present information (in millions) about our assets and liabilities recognized at their fair values in our balance sheets categorized according to the fair value hierarchy of the inputs utilized by us to determine the fair values as of December 31, 20202022 and 2019.2021.
We have elected to offset the fair value amounts recognized for multiple similar derivative contracts executed with the same counterparty, including any related cash collateral assets or obligations as shown below; however, fair value amounts by hierarchy level are presented in the following tables on a gross basis. We have no derivative contracts that are subject to master netting arrangements that are reflected gross on the balance sheet.
| | | December 31, 2020 | | December 31, 2022 |
| | | Total Gross Fair Value | | Effect of Counter- party Netting | | Effect of Cash Collateral Netting | | Net Carrying Value on Balance Sheet | | Cash Collateral Paid or Received Not Offset | | | Total Gross Fair Value | | Effect of Counter- party Netting | | Effect of Cash Collateral Netting | | Net Carrying Value on Balance Sheet | | Cash Collateral Paid or Received Not Offset |
| | Fair Value Hierarchy | | | Fair Value Hierarchy | |
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | |
Assets | Assets | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Assets | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Commodity derivative contracts | Commodity derivative contracts | $ | 403 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 403 | | | $ | (373) | | | $ | (18) | | | $ | 12 | | | $ | 0 | | Commodity derivative contracts | $ | 830 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 830 | | | $ | (705) | | | $ | (8) | | | $ | 117 | | | $ | — | |
Physical purchase contracts | Physical purchase contracts | 0 | | | 13 | | | 0 | | | 13 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 13 | | | n/a | Physical purchase contracts | — | | | 4 | | | — | | | 4 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 4 | | | n/a |
| Investments of certain benefit plans | Investments of certain benefit plans | 74 | | | 0 | | | 8 | | | 82 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 82 | | | n/a | Investments of certain benefit plans | 72 | | | — | | | 6 | | | 78 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 78 | | | n/a |
| Investments in AFS debt securities | | Investments in AFS debt securities | 56 | | | 165 | | | — | | | 221 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 221 | | | n/a |
Total | Total | $ | 477 | | | $ | 13 | | | $ | 8 | | | $ | 498 | | | $ | (373) | | | $ | (18) | | | $ | 107 | | | Total | $ | 958 | | | $ | 169 | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 1,133 | | | $ | (705) | | | $ | (8) | | | $ | 420 | | |
| Liabilities | Liabilities | | Liabilities | |
Commodity derivative contracts | Commodity derivative contracts | $ | 405 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 405 | | | $ | (373) | | | $ | (32) | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | (44) | | Commodity derivative contracts | $ | 705 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 705 | | | $ | (705) | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | (149) | |
Environmental credit obligations | 0 | | | 96 | | | 0 | | | 96 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 96 | | | n/a | |
| Blending program obligations | | Blending program obligations | — | | | 55 | | | — | | | 55 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 55 | | | n/a |
Physical purchase contracts | | Physical purchase contracts | — | | | 4 | | | — | | | 4 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 4 | | | n/a |
Foreign currency contracts | Foreign currency contracts | 4 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 4 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 4 | | | n/a | Foreign currency contracts | 2 | | | — | | | — | | | 2 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 2 | | | n/a |
| Total | Total | $ | 409 | | | $ | 96 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 505 | | | $ | (373) | | | $ | (32) | | | $ | 100 | | | Total | $ | 707 | | | $ | 59 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 766 | | | $ | (705) | | | $ | — | | | $ | 61 | | |
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| | | December 31, 2019 | | December 31, 2021 |
| | | | Total Gross Fair Value | | Effect of Counter- party Netting | | Effect of Cash Collateral Netting | | Net Carrying Value on Balance Sheet | | Cash Collateral Paid or Received Not Offset | | | | Total Gross Fair Value | | Effect of Counter- party Netting | | Effect of Cash Collateral Netting | | Net Carrying Value on Balance Sheet | | Cash Collateral Paid or Received Not Offset |
| | Fair Value Hierarchy | | | Fair Value Hierarchy | |
| | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | | | Level 1 | | Level 2 | | Level 3 | |
Assets | Assets | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Assets | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Commodity derivative contracts | Commodity derivative contracts | $ | 617 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 617 | | | $ | (612) | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 5 | | | $ | 0 | | Commodity derivative contracts | $ | 522 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 522 | | | $ | (444) | | | $ | (15) | | | $ | 63 | | | $ | — | |
| Physical purchase contracts | | Physical purchase contracts | — | | | 4 | | | — | | | 4 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 4 | | | n/a |
Foreign currency contracts | Foreign currency contracts | 27 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 27 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 27 | | | n/a | Foreign currency contracts | 1 | | | — | | | — | | | 1 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 1 | | | n/a |
Investments of certain benefit plans | Investments of certain benefit plans | 65 | | | 0 | | | 9 | | | 74 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 74 | | | n/a | Investments of certain benefit plans | 83 | | | — | | | 6 | | | 89 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 89 | | | n/a |
| Total | Total | $ | 709 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 9 | | | $ | 718 | | | $ | (612) | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 106 | | | Total | $ | 606 | | | $ | 4 | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 616 | | | $ | (444) | | | $ | (15) | | | $ | 157 | | |
| Liabilities | Liabilities | | Liabilities | |
Commodity derivative contracts | Commodity derivative contracts | $ | 668 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 668 | | | $ | (612) | | | $ | (56) | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | (84) | | Commodity derivative contracts | $ | 472 | | | $ | — | | | $ | — | | | $ | 472 | | | $ | (444) | | | $ | (28) | | | $ | — | | | $ | (41) | |
Environmental credit obligations | 0 | | | 2 | | | 0 | | | 2 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 2 | | | n/a | |
Blending program obligations | | Blending program obligations | — | | | 57 | | | — | | | 57 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 57 | | | n/a |
Physical purchase contracts | Physical purchase contracts | 0 | | | 3 | | | 0 | | | 3 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 3 | | | n/a | Physical purchase contracts | — | | | 5 | | | — | | | 5 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 5 | | | n/a |
Foreign currency contracts | Foreign currency contracts | 10 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 10 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 10 | | | n/a | Foreign currency contracts | 10 | | | — | | | — | | | 10 | | | n/a | | n/a | | 10 | | | n/a |
Total | Total | $ | 678 | | | $ | 5 | | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 683 | | | $ | (612) | | | $ | (56) | | | $ | 15 | | | Total | $ | 482 | | | $ | 62 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 544 | | | $ | (444) | | | $ | (28) | | | $ | 72 | | |
A description of our assets and liabilities recognized at fair value along with the valuation methods and inputs we used to develop their fair value measurements are as follows:
•Commodity derivative contracts consist primarily of exchange-traded futures, which are used to reduce the impact of price volatility on our results of operations and cash flows as discussed in Note 21.19. These contracts are measured at fair value using a market approach based on quoted prices from the commodity exchange and are categorized in Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.
•Physical purchase contracts represent the fair value of fixed-price corn purchase contracts. The fair values of these purchase contracts are measured using a market approach based on quoted prices from the commodity exchange or an independent pricing service and are categorized in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.
•Investments of certain benefit plans consist of investment securities held by trusts for the purpose of satisfying a portion of our obligations under certain U.S. nonqualified benefit plans. The plan assets categorized in Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy are measured at fair value using a market approach based on quoted prices from national securities exchanges. The plan assets categorized in Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy represent insurance contracts, the fair value of which is provided by the insurer.
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•Investments in AFS debt securities consist primarily of commercial paper and U.S. government treasury bills and have maturities within one year. As of December 31, 2022, the securities reflected as cash and cash equivalents and prepaid expenses and other were $125 million and $96 million, respectively, depending on their original maturities when acquired. The securities categorized in Level 1 are measured at fair value using a market approach based on quoted prices from national securities exchanges, and the securities categorized in Level 2 are measured at fair value using a market approach based on quoted prices from independent pricing services. The amortized cost basis of the securities approximates fair value. Unrealized gains and losses and realized gains and losses were de minimis. There were no AFS debt securities held as of December 31, 2021.
•Blending program obligations represent our liability for the purchase of compliance credits needed to satisfy our blending obligations under the Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs. The blending program obligations are categorized in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy and are measured at fair value using a market approach based on quoted prices from an independent pricing service.
•Foreign currency contracts consist of foreign currency exchange and purchase contracts and foreign currency swap agreements related to our internationalforeign operations to manage our exposure to exchange rate fluctuations on transactions denominated in currencies other than the local (functional) currencies of our operations. These contracts are valued based on quoted foreign currency exchange rates and are categorized in Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.
•Environmental credit obligations represent our liability for the purchase of (i) biofuel credits (primarily RINs in the U.S.) needed to satisfy our obligation to blend biofuels into the products we produce and (ii) emission credits under the California Global Warming Solutions Act (the California cap-and-trade system, also known as AB 32) and similar programs, (collectively, the cap-and-trade systems). To the degree we are unable to blend biofuels (such as ethanol and biodiesel) at percentages required under the biofuel programs, we must purchase biofuel credits to comply with these programs. Under the cap-and-trade systems, we must purchase emission credits to comply with these systems. These programs are described in Note 21 under “Risk Management Activities by Type of Risk—Environmental Compliance Program Price Risk.” The liability for environmental credits is based on our deficit for such credits as of the balance sheet date, if any, after considering any credits acquired or under contract, and is equal to the product of the credits deficit and the market price of these credits as of the balance sheet date. The environmental credit obligations are categorized in Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy and are measured at fair value using the market approach based on quoted prices from an independent pricing service.
There were notransfers into or out of Level 3 for assets and liabilities held as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 that were measured at fair value on a recurring basis.
There was no significant activity during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018 related to the fair value amounts categorized in Level 3 as of December 31, 2020 and 2019.
Nonrecurring Fair Value Measurements
As discussed in Note 5, we concluded that our Lakota ethanol plant was impaired as of December 31, 2022, which resulted in an asset impairment loss of $61 million. The fair value of the Lakota ethanol plant was determined using a combination of the income and market approaches and was classified in Level 3. We employed a probability-weighted approach to possible future cash flow scenarios, including the use ofpeer company metrics and comparison to a recent sales transaction.
There were 0no assets or liabilities that were measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis as of December 31, 20202022 and 2019.2021, except as noted above.
Other Financial Instruments
Financial instruments that we recognize in our balance sheets at their carrying amounts are shown in the following table along with their associated fair values (in millions):
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| Fair Value Hierarchy | | Carrying Amount | | Fair Value | | Carrying Amount | | Fair Value |
Financial assets | | | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | Level 1 | | $ | 3,313 | | | $ | 3,313 | | | $ | 2,583 | | | $ | 2,583 | |
Financial liabilities | | | | | | | | | |
Debt (excluding finance leases) | Level 2 | | 13,013 | | | 15,103 | | | 8,881 | | | 10,583 | |
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| | | December 31, 2022 | | December 31, 2021 |
| Fair Value Hierarchy | | Carrying Amount | | Fair Value | | Carrying Amount | | Fair Value |
Financial assets: | | | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents | Level 1 | | $ | 4,862 | | | $ | 4,862 | | | $ | 4,122 | | | $ | 4,122 | |
Financial liabilities: | | | | | | | | | |
Debt (excluding finance lease obligations) | Level 2 | | 9,241 | | | 8,902 | | | 11,950 | | | 13,668 | |
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21.19. PRICE RISK MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
General
We are exposed to market risks primarily related to the volatility in the price of commodities, foreign currency exchange rates, and the price of credits needed to comply with various governmentthe Renewable and regulatory programs.Low-Carbon Fuel Programs. We enter into derivative instruments to manage some of these risks, including derivative instruments related to the various commodities we purchase or produce, and foreign currency exchange and purchase contracts, as described below under ““Risk Management Activities by Type of Risk.” These derivative instruments are recorded as either assets or liabilities measured at their fair values (see Note 20)18), as summarized below under ““Fair Values of Derivative Instruments.Instruments.” The effect of these derivative instruments on our income and other comprehensive income (loss) is summarized below under ““Effect of Derivative Instruments on Income and Other Comprehensive Income (Loss).”
Risk Management Activities by Type of Risk
Commodity Price Risk
We are exposed to market risks related to the volatility in the price of feedstocks (primarily crude oil, waste and renewable feedstocks, and corn), the products we produce, (primarily refined petroleum products), and natural gas used in our operations. To reduce the impact of price volatility on our results of operations and cash flows, we use commodity derivative instruments, such as futures and options. Our positions in commodity derivative instruments are monitored and managed on a daily basis by our risk control group to ensure compliance with our stated risk management policy that has been approved by our board of directors.
Board.
We primarily use commodity derivative instruments as cash flow hedges and economic hedges. Our objectives for entering into each type of hedge is described below.
•Cash flow hedges – The objective of our cash flow hedges is to lock in the price of forecasted purchases and/or product sales at existing market prices that we deem favorable.
•Economic hedges – Our objectives for holding economic hedges are to (i) manage price volatility in certain feedstock and product inventories and (ii) lock in the price of forecasted purchases and/or product sales at existing market prices that we deem favorable.
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As of December 31, 2020,2022, we had the following outstanding commodity derivative instruments that were used as cash flow hedges and economic hedges, as well as commodity derivative instruments related to the physical purchase of corn at a fixed price. The information presents the notional volume of outstanding contracts by type of instrument and year of maturity (volumes in thousands of barrels, except corn contracts that are presented in thousands of bushels).
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Derivatives designated as cash flow hedges | | | | | | |
Refined petroleum products: | | | | | | |
Futures – long | | 334 | | | 0 | | | |
Futures – short | | 1,364 | | | 0 | | | |
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Crude oil and refined petroleum products: | | | | | | |
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Futures – long | | 53,205 | | | 1 | | | |
Futures – short | | 50,518 | | | 0 | | | |
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Futures – long | | 49,840 | | | 10 | | | |
Futures – short | | 78,135 | | | 155 | | | |
Physical contracts – long | | 27,144 | | | 145 | | | |
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Derivatives designated as cash flow hedges: | | | | | | |
Refined petroleum products: | | | | | | |
Futures – long | | 2,929 | | | | | |
Futures – short | | 7,589 | | | | | |
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Derivatives designated as economic hedges: | | | | | | |
Crude oil and refined petroleum products: | | | | | | |
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Futures – long | | 73,415 | | | | | |
Futures – short | | 68,973 | | | | | |
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Corn: | | | | | | |
Futures – long | | 46,820 | | | | | |
Futures – short | | 92,830 | | | | | |
Physical contracts – long | | 42,223 | | | | | |
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Foreign Currency Risk
We are exposed to exchange rate fluctuations on transactions related to our internationalforeign operations that are denominated in currencies other than the local (functional) currencies of thoseour operations. To manage our exposure to these exchange rate fluctuations, we often use foreign currency contracts. These contracts are not designated as hedging instruments for accounting purposes and therefore are classified as economic hedges. As of December 31, 2020,2022, we had foreign currency contracts to purchase $325$610 million of U.S. dollars and $1.6 billion of U.S. dollar equivalent Canadian dollars. Of theseThese commitments $1.1 billion matured on or before February 16, 2021and the remaining $800 million will mature byApril 15, 2021.January 25, 2023.
Environmental Compliance ProgramRenewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs Price Risk
We are exposed to market risk related to the volatility in the price of credits needed to comply with various governmentalthe Renewable and regulatory environmental compliance programs.Low-Carbon Fuel Programs. To manage this risk, we enter into contracts to purchase these credits when prices are deemed favorable.credits. Some of these contracts are derivative instruments; however, we elect the normal purchase exception and do not record these contracts at their fair values. Certain of these programsThe Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs require us to blend biofuelsa certain volume of renewable and low-carbon fuels into the products we produce, and we are subject to such programs in most of the countries in which we operate. These countries set annual quotas for the percentage of biofuels that must be blended into the motor fuels consumed in these countries. As a producer of motor fuels from petroleum, we are obligated to blend biofuels into the motorpetroleum-based transportation fuels we produce at a rate that is at least equalin, or import into, the respective jurisdiction to the applicable quota.be consumed therein based on annual quotas. To the degree we are unable to blend at the applicable rate,required quotas, we must purchase biofuelcompliance credits (primarily RINsRINs). For the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, the cost of meeting our credit obligations under the Renewable and Low-Carbon Fuel Programs was $1.5 billion, $2.1 billion, and $767 million, respectively, which are reflected in cost of materials and other.
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the U.S.). We are exposed to the volatility in the market price of these credits, and we manage that risk by purchasing biofuel credits when prices are deemed favorable. For the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018, the cost of meeting our obligations under these compliance programs was $648 million, $318 million, and $536 million, respectively. These amounts are reflected in cost of materials and other.
We are subject to additional requirements under GHG emission programs, including the cap-and-trade systems, as discussed in Note 20. Under these cap-and-trade systems, we purchase various GHG emission credits available on the open market. Therefore, we are exposed to the volatility in the market price of these credits. The cost to implement certain provisions of the cap-and-trade systems are significant; however, we recovered substantially all of these costs from our customers for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018 and expect to continue to recover the majority of these costs in the future. For the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018, the net cost of meeting our obligations under these compliance programs was immaterial.
Fair Values of Derivative Instruments
The following tables providetable provides information about the fair values of our derivative instruments as of December 31, 20202022 and 20192021 (in millions) and the line items in the balance sheets in which the fair values are reflected. See Note 2018 for additional information related to the fair values of our derivative instruments.
As indicated in Note 20,18, we net fair value amounts recognized for multiple similar derivative contracts executed with the same counterparty under master netting arrangements, including cash collateral assets and obligations. The following tables,table, however, areis presented on a gross asset and gross liability basis, which results in the reflection of certain assets in liability accounts and certain liabilities in asset accounts.accounts:
| | | Balance Sheet Location | | December 31, 2020 | | December 31, 2019 | | Balance Sheet Location | | December 31, 2022 | | December 31, 2021 |
| | Asset Derivatives | | Liability Derivatives | | Asset Derivatives | | Liability Derivatives | | Asset Derivatives | | Liability Derivatives | | Asset Derivatives | | Liability Derivatives |
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments | | | | | | | | | | |
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments: | | Derivatives designated as hedging instruments: | | | | | | | | | |
Commodity contracts | Commodity contracts | Receivables, net | | $ | 4 | | | $ | 17 | | | $ | 9 | | | $ | 20 | | Commodity contracts | Receivables, net | | $ | 61 | | | $ | 44 | | | $ | 3 | | | $ | 26 | |
| | Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments | | |
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments: | | Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments: | |
Commodity contracts | Commodity contracts | Receivables, net | | $ | 399 | | | $ | 388 | | | $ | 608 | | | $ | 648 | | Commodity contracts | Receivables, net | | $ | 769 | | | $ | 661 | | | $ | 519 | | | $ | 446 | |
| Physical purchase contracts | Physical purchase contracts | Inventories | | 13 | | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 3 | | Physical purchase contracts | Inventories | | 4 | | | 4 | | | 4 | | | 5 | |
Foreign currency contracts | Foreign currency contracts | Receivables, net | | 0 | | | 0 | | | 27 | | | 0 | | Foreign currency contracts | Receivables, net | | — | | | — | | | 1 | | | — | |
Foreign currency contracts | Foreign currency contracts | Accrued expenses | | 0 | | | 4 | | | 0 | | | 10 | | Foreign currency contracts | Accrued expenses | | — | | | 2 | | | — | | | 10 | |
Total | Total | | $ | 412 | | | $ | 392 | | | $ | 635 | | | $ | 661 | | Total | | $ | 773 | | | $ | 667 | | | $ | 524 | | | $ | 461 | |
VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Market Risk
Our price risk management activities involve the receipt or payment of fixed price commitments into the future. These transactions give rise to market risk, which is the risk that future changes in market conditions may make an instrument less valuable. We closely monitor and manage our exposure to market risk on a daily basis in accordance with policies approved by our board of directors.Board. Market risks are monitored by our risk control group to ensure compliance with our stated risk management policy. We do not require any collateral or other security to support derivative instruments into which we enter. We also do not have any derivative instruments that require us to maintain a minimum investment-grade credit rating.
VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
Effect of Derivative Instruments on Income and Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
The following table provides information about the gain (loss) recognized in income and other comprehensive income (loss) due to fair value adjustments of our cash flow hedges (in millions):
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Gain (loss) recognized in other comprehensive income (loss) on derivatives | | N/A | | $ | 38 | | | $ | (6) | | | $ | 0 | | | |
Gain reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss into income | | Revenues | | 34 | | | 2 | | | 0 | | | |
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Gain (loss) recognized in other comprehensive income (loss) | | n/a | | $ | (292) | | | $ | (44) | | | $ | 38 | | | |
Gain (loss) reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss into income | | Revenues | | (286) | | | (46) | | | 34 | | | |
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For cash flow hedges, no component of any derivative instrument’s gainsgain or lossesloss was excluded from the assessment of hedge effectiveness for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018.2020. For the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018,2020, cash flow hedges primarily related to forward sales of renewable diesel. The estimated deferred after-taxloss that is expected to be reclassified into revenues over the next 12 months as a result of the hedged transactions that are forecasted to occur as of December 31, 20202022 was immaterial.not material. For the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018,2020, there were no amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss into income as a result of the discontinuance of cash flow hedge accounting. The changes in accumulated other comprehensive loss by component, net of tax, for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 20182020 are described in Note 12.10.
VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
The following table provides information about the gain (loss) recognized in income on our derivative instruments with respect to our economic hedges and our foreign currency hedges and the line items in the statements of income in which such gains (losses) are reflected (in millions):
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Commodity contracts | | Revenues | | $ | 0 | | | $ | 5 | | | $ | 0 | |
Commodity contracts | | Cost of materials and other | | 99 | | | (68) | | | (165) | |
Commodity contracts | | Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) | | 2 | | | 0 | | | 7 | |
Foreign currency contracts | | Cost of materials and other | | 27 | | | (21) | | | 56 | |
Foreign currency contracts | | Other income, net | | (13) | | | 75 | | | (43) | |
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Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments | | Location of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivatives | | Year Ended December 31, |
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Commodity contracts | | Revenues | | $ | (17) | | | $ | 28 | | | $ | — | |
Commodity contracts | | Cost of materials and other | | (988) | | | (86) | | | 99 | |
Commodity contracts | | Operating expenses (excluding depreciation and amortization expense) | | (1) | | | 54 | | | 2 | |
Foreign currency contracts | | Cost of materials and other | | 73 | | | 9 | | | 27 | |
Foreign currency contracts | | Other income, net | | (119) | | | 44 | | | (13) | |
VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
22. QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA (Unaudited)
The following tables summarize quarterly financial data for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 (in millions, except per share amounts):
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Revenues | $ | 22,102 | | | $ | 10,397 | | | $ | 15,809 | | | $ | 16,604 | |
Gross profit (loss) (a) | (2,085) | | | 1,973 | | | (398) | | | (230) | |
Operating income (loss) | (2,277) | | | 1,789 | | | (621) | | | (470) | |
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Net income (loss) | (1,754) | | | 1,335 | | | (379) | | | (309) | |
Net income (loss) attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | (1,851) | | | 1,253 | | | (464) | | | (359) | |
Earnings (loss) per common share | (4.54) | | | 3.07 | | | (1.14) | | | (0.88) | |
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Earnings (loss) per common share – assuming dilution | (4.54) | | | 3.07 | | | (1.14) | | | (0.88) | |
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Revenues | $ | 24,263 | | | $ | 28,933 | | | $ | 27,249 | | | $ | 27,879 | |
Gross profit (a) | 533 | | | 1,123 | | | 1,119 | | | 2,003 | |
Operating income | 308 | | | 908 | | | 881 | | | 1,739 | |
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Net income | 167 | | | 648 | | | 639 | | | 1,330 | |
Net income attributable to Valero Energy Corporation stockholders | 141 | | | 612 | | | 609 | | | 1,060 | |
Earnings per common share | 0.34 | | | 1.47 | | | 1.48 | | | 2.58 | |
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(a)Gross profit is calculated as revenues less total cost of sales.
(b)The market value of our inventories accounted for under the LIFO method fell below their historical cost on an aggregate basis as of March 31, 2020. As a result, we recorded an LCM inventory valuation adjustment of $2.5 billion in March 2020 as described in Note 5. The market value of our LIFO inventories improved due to the subsequent recovery in market prices, which resulted in a reversal of $2.2 billion in the quarter ended June 30, 2020 and the remaining amount in the quarter ended September 30, 2020.
(c)We recorded a charge of $326 million in September 2020 due to the expected liquidation of LIFO inventory layers as described in Note 5. We recognized a benefit of $102 million in December 2020 to adjust the $326 million estimate to the $224 million actual charge for the year ended December 31, 2020.
ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
None.
ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Disclosure Controls and Procedures.
Our management has evaluated, with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) as of the end of the period covered by this report, and has concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2020.2022.
Internal Control over Financial Reporting.
(a) Management’sManagement’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting.
The management report on Valero’sour internal control over financial reporting required by Item 9Athis item appears in Item 8“ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA” on page 6166 of this report, and is incorporated herein by reference.reference into this item.
(b)Attestation Report of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
(c)Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting.
There has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during our last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
None.In 2022, our performance exceeded our 2025 GHG reduction/displacement target, which is three years ahead of schedule. Accordingly, on February 23, 2023, our Human Resources and Compensation Committee, a committee of our Board, approved a modification to our energy transition performance modifier for performance shares that continues on to our 2035 GHG reduction/displacement target.
ITEM 9C. DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS
Not applicable.
PART III
ITEMS 10-14.
The information required by ItemsITEMS 10 through 14 of Form 10-K is incorporated herein by reference into these items to the definitive proxy statement for our 20212023 annual meeting of stockholders. We expect to file the proxy statement with the U.S. SEC on or before March 31, 2021.2023. No other information other than what is required to satisfy ITEMS 10 through 14 of Form 10-K is incorporated by reference into these items from such proxy statement. See the cross-reference sheet on page “i.”
PART IV
ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
2. Financial Statement Schedules and Other Financial Information. No financial statement schedules are submitted because either they are inapplicable or because the required information is included in the consolidated financial statements or notes thereto.
3. Exhibits. Filed as part of this Form 10-K are the following exhibits:
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3.01 | — | Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Valero Energy Corporation, formerly known as Valero Refining and Marketing Company–incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Valero’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (SEC File No. 333-27013) filed May 13, 1997. |
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* | Filed herewith. |
** | Furnished herewith. |
*** | Submitted electronically herewith. |
+ | Identifies management contracts or compensatory plans or arrangements required to be filed as an exhibit hereto. |
++ | Certain schedules have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The registrant agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of any such omitted schedule to the U.S. SEC upon request. |
Pursuant to paragraph 601(b)(4)(iii)(A) of Regulation S-K, the registrant has omitted from the foregoing listing of exhibits, and hereby agrees to furnish to the U.S. SEC upon its request, copies of certain instruments, each relating to debt not exceeding 10 percent of the total assets of the registrant and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
ITEM 16. FORM 10-K SUMMARY
None.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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| VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION (Registrant)
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| By: | /s/ Joseph W. Gorder |
| | (Joseph W. Gorder) |
| | Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer |
Date: February 23, 20212023
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Joseph W. Gorder, Jason W. Fraser, and Richard J. Walsh, or any of them, each with power to act without the other, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all subsequent amendments and supplements to this Annual Reportannual report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, or cause to be filed the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby qualifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
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/s/ Joseph W. Gorder | | Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) | | February 23, 20212023 |
(Joseph W. Gorder) | | |
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/s/ Jason W. Fraser | | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) | | February 23, 20212023 |
(Jason W. Fraser) | | |
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/s/ Fred M. Diaz | | Director | | February 23, 2023 |
(Fred M. Diaz) | | |
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/s/ H. Paulett Eberhart | | Director | | February 23, 20212023 |
(H. Paulett Eberhart) | | |
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/s/ Marie A. Ffolkes | | Director | | February 23, 2023 |
(Marie A. Ffolkes) | | |
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/s/ Kimberly S. Greene | | Director | | February 23, 20212023 |
(Kimberly S. Greene) | | |
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/s/ Deborah P. Majoras | | Director | | February 23, 20212023 |
(Deborah P. Majoras) | | |
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/s/ Eric D. Mullins | | Director | | February 23, 20212023 |
(Eric D. Mullins) | | |
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/s/ Donald L. Nickles | | Director | | February 23, 20212023 |
(Donald L. Nickles) | | |
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/s/ Philip J. Pfeiffer | | Director | | February 23, 20212023 |
(Philip J. Pfeiffer) | | |
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/s/ Robert A. Profusek | | Director | | February 23, 20212023 |
(Robert A. Profusek) | | |
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/s/ Stephen M. Waters | | Director | | February 23, 2021 |
(Stephen M. Waters) | | |
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/s/ Randall J. Weisenburger | | Director | | February 23, 20212023 |
(Randall J. Weisenburger) | | |
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/s/ Rayford Wilkins, Jr. | | Director | | February 23, 20212023 |
(Rayford Wilkins, Jr.) | | |