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Phillips 66 substantially expanded its risk disclosure framework by adding five new risk factors in 2025, including explicit coverage of margin cyclicality, renewable fuel policy impacts, shareholder activism, and legal proceedings - representing a more comprehensive risk articulation without removing any prior disclosures. The company modified 13 existing risk factors, with notable substantive changes to its disclosures on capital project execution timelines, energy transition demand risks, and credit profile vulnerabilities, suggesting heightened attention to long-term strategic and financing concerns. Together, these changes increased the total risk factor count from 18 to 36, signaling management's intent to provide more granular risk transparency across operational, regulatory, and investor-related domains.
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Summary of Risk Factors
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Margins for the products we produce are cyclical and volatile due to changes in market conditions, which are largely dependent on factors beyond our control, and directly affect our earnings, financial condition and cash flows.
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Changes to government policies relating to renewable feedstocks and renewable fuels that adversely affect programs like the renewable fuels standards program, low-carbon fuels standards and tax credits for processing certain renewable feedstocks impact our financial condition and results of operations.
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Our business could be negatively impacted as a result of shareholder activism.
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We are subject to a variety of legal proceedings and other claims arising out of our operations which may adversely impact our business and financial condition.
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Large capital-intensive projects can take many years to complete, and the political and regulatory environments or market conditions could change significantly between the project approval date and the project startup date, negatively impacting expected project returns.
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Societal, technological, political and scientific developments around emissions and fuel efficiency may decrease demand for petroleum-based fuels.
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Deterioration in our credit profile could increase our costs of borrowing money, limit our access to the capital markets and commercial credit, and could trigger co-venturer rights under joint venture arrangements.
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🟡 Modified
Political and economic developments could affect our operations and materially reduce our profitability and cash flows.
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We are subject to continuing contingent liabilities of ConocoPhillips following the separation. Further, ConocoPhillips has indemnified us for certain matters, but may not be able to satisfy its obligations to us in the future.
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Volatility in market demand for our petrochemical and plastics products and midstream transportation services and the risk of overbuild in these industries may negatively impact the results of operations of our businesses.
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Negative sentiment towards fossil fuels and increased attention to environmental and social matters, including climate change, could adversely affect our business, the market price for our securities and our access to and cost of capital.
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Public health crises, epidemics and pandemics have had and could in the future have a material adverse effect on our business. Any future widespread health crises could materially and adversely impact our business.
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There are certain environmental hazards and risks inherent in our operations that could adversely affect those operations and our financial results.
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Factors associated with climate change legislation or regulation could result in increased operating costs, reduce demand for the refined petroleum products we produce and could otherwise have a material impact on our business.
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We are subject to interruptions of supply and offtake, as well as increased costs, as a result of our reliance on third-party transportation of crude oil or other feedstocks, NGL, refined petroleum and renewable fuels products.
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The prices at which we buy our feedstocks are dependent on market conditions that are beyond our control, and changes in supply and demand for the feedstocks we process directly impact the results of our business.
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Our Midstream segment competes for natural gas supplies with other companies that provide midstream gathering and processing, transportation, fractionation and terminaling services, and a failure to grow or maintain throughput levels may negatively impact the results of operations of our business.
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