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Downstream Statistical Recap 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Earnings (millions of dollars) 6,557 3,045 3,449 13,190 4,459
Refinery throughput (thousands of barrels per day) 4,432 4,476 4,585 5,014 5,214
Petroleum product sales (thousands of barrels per day) 5,754 5,875 5,887 6,174 6,413
Average capital employed(1) (millions of dollars) 23,253 23,977 24,430 24,031 23,388
Return on average capital employed(1) (percent) 28.2 12.7 14.1 54.9 19.1
Capital expenditures(1) (millions of dollars) 2,613 3,034 2,413 2,262 2,120
(1) See Frequently Used Terms on pages 44 and 45.
Downstream
Strategies
• Maintain best-in-class operations
• Lead industry in efficiency and effectiveness
• Provide quality, valued products and services to
our customers
• Capitalize on integration across ExxonMobil businesses
• Maintain capital discipline
• Maximize value from leading-edge technologies
2015 Results & Highlights
•   Achieved strong safety results and improved 
environmental performance
•   Delivered earnings of $6.6 billion and return on 
average capital employed of 28.2 percent, averaging
25.6 percent over the past 10 years
•   Invested $2.6 billion, focused on higher-value products, 
feedstock flexibility, logistics, and energy efficiency
•   Achieved record sales of our industry-leading synthetic 
lubricants, including Mobil 1
•   Strengthened the branded retail site network and progressed conversion to a branded wholesaler model in many 
European markets
•   Completed a lube basestock unit expansion in Baytown, Texas, and lubricant plant expansions in China and Finland 
to support increased demand for higher-performance lubricants
•   
Started up the Edmonton Rail Terminal, facilitating delivery of equity crude oil to ExxonMobil and industry refineries
•   Progressed construction of a new delayed coker unit at our refinery in Antwerp, Belgium, to convert lower-value 
bunker fuel oil into higher-value diesel products
•   Approved funding to expand the hydrocracker at our refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands, utilizing proprietary 
technology to produce ultra-low sulfur diesel and Group II lube basestocks