PetroChina Q3 Profit Jumps to $7.78 Billion

PetroChina’s third-quarter profit rose 21.6% on Iran war-inflated oil and gas prices, while the company’s nine-month crude output, refinery runs and domestic diesel sales all fell. Net profit for the July-September period reached 51.84 billion yuan ($7.78 billion), up from 42.29 billion yuan a year earlier, Asia’s largest oil and gas producer said in a stock filing on Wednesday. Net profit for the first nine months rose 21.9% to 155.78 billion yuan, and revenue rose 7% to 2.32 trillion yuan. PetroChina posted a record first-half…