Overview
- Adjusted earnings reached $5.43 billion, topping consensus of about $5.05 billion, up 27% from Q2 but below $6 billion a year earlier.
- Shell will repurchase $3.5 billion of shares over the next three months, marking a 16th consecutive quarter with at least $3 billion of buybacks.
- Management cited higher sales volumes and stronger trading margins, with standout performance in marketing and deepwater assets in the Gulf of America and Brazil.
- The quarter included a $161 million favorable tax write-off that was partly offset by higher depreciation, depletion and amortisation.
- Net debt fell to $41.2 billion at quarter-end from $43.2 billion in June.