Overview
- Shell reported a 30% year-on-year drop in adjusted net profits to $9.84 billion for H1 2025.
- Q2 adjusted earnings of $4.26 billion fell 32% from a year earlier yet beat the $3.87 billion analyst consensus.
- The profit decline stemmed from lower trading and optimization margins, falling gas and oil prices and a $509 million UK energy profits levy.
- Price drops forced a 30% tumble in gas division earnings, a 26% hit in upstream and a 74% plunge in chemicals in the April-June quarter.
- The company strengthened growth prospects by enhancing deep-water assets in Nigeria and Brazil and delivering its first LNG Canada shipment.