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By America Hernandez
PARIS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - French oil major TotalEnergies TTEF.PA reported third-quarter adjusted net income at a three-year low of $4.1 billion on Thursday, hit by collapsing refining margins and upstream outages.
Adjusted net income was down 37% from a year earlier and down 12.7% from the previous quarter's $4.7 billion. The result just missed analyst expectations of $4.2 billion.
Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) fell 23.6% year on year to $10 billion.
Earlier this month, TotalEnergies warned its financial results would take a hit as its refining margin tumbled 65%.
Global refining margins have dropped sharply in recent months in the face of weaker global economies and the start-up of several new refineries in Asia and Africa, while oil prices fell 17% in the quarter - the largest quarterly decline in a year - on worries about the global oil demand outlook.
TotalEnergies took a $1.1 billion impairment related to the August bankruptcy filing of U.S. subsidiary SunPower, and its exit of South African offshore gas field blocks 11B/12B and 5/6/7.
Quarterly hydrocarbon production of 2.4 million barrels of oil-equivalent per day was at the low end of guidance given at half year due to security-related disruptions in Libya and an outage at the Ichthys LNG plant in Australia.
(Reporting by America Hernandez and Benjamin Mallet in Paris; Editing by David Goodman and Mark Potter)
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