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Australia's second-biggest oil and gas producer, beat analysts' estimates to post a 67 percent increase in profit as prices rose to records and output started at an oil project off the northwest coast.
Net income climbed to A$1.02 billion ($874 million) in the first half ended June 30, from A$608 million a year earlier, the Perth-based company said today in a statement. That's higher than the median forecast of A$939.3 million in a Bloomberg News survey. Woodside rose to the highest in five weeks in Sydney.
Woodside, 34 percent-owned by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, gained A$1.92, or 3.4 percent, to A$58.42.