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SHELL PLC
1st QUARTER 2025 UNAUDITED RESULTS |
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SUMMARY OF UNAUDITED RESULTS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quarters | $ million | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Q1 2025 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2024 | %¹ | Reference | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4,780 | 928 | 7,358 | +415 | Income/(loss) attributable to Shell plc shareholders | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5,577 | 3,661 | 7,734 | +52 | Adjusted Earnings | A | |||||||||||||||||||||
15,250 | 14,281 | 18,711 | +7 | Adjusted EBITDA | A | |||||||||||||||||||||
9,281 | 13,162 | 13,330 | -29 | Cash flow from operating activities | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(3,959) | (4,431) | (3,528) | Cash flow from investing activities | |||||||||||||||||||||||
5,322 | 8,731 | 9,802 | Free cash flow | G | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4,175 | 6,924 | 4,493 | Cash capital expenditure | C | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8,575 | 9,401 | 8,997 | -9 | Operating expenses | F | |||||||||||||||||||||
8,453 | 9,138 | 9,054 | -7 | Underlying operating expenses | F | |||||||||||||||||||||
10.4% | 11.3% | 12.0% | ROACE | D | ||||||||||||||||||||||
76,511 | 77,078 | 79,931 | Total debt | E | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41,521 | 38,809 | 40,513 | Net debt | E | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18.7% | 17.7% | 17.7% | Gearing | E | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2,838 | 2,815 | 2,911 | +1 | Oil and gas production available for sale (thousand boe/d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
0.79 | 0.15 | 1.14 | +427 | Basic earnings per share ($) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
0.92 | 0.60 | 1.20 | +53 | Adjusted Earnings per share ($) | B | |||||||||||||||||||||
0.3580 | 0.3580 | 0.3440 | - | Dividend per share ($) |
1.Q1 on Q4 change
Quarter Analysis1
Income attributable to Shell plc shareholders, compared with the fourth quarter 2024, reflected lower exploration well write-offs, lower operating expenses and higher Products margins.
First quarter 2025 income attributable to Shell plc shareholders also included a charge of $0.5 billion related to the UK Energy Profits Levy and impairment charges. These items are included in identified items amounting to a net loss of $0.8 billion in the quarter. This compares with identified items in the fourth quarter 2024 which amounted to a net loss of $2.8 billion.
Adjusted Earnings and Adjusted EBITDA2 were driven by the same factors as income attributable to Shell plc shareholders and adjusted for the above identified items.
Cash flow from operating activities for the first quarter 2025 was $9.3 billion and primarily driven by Adjusted EBITDA, partly offset by tax payments of $2.9 billion and working capital outflows of $2.7 billion. The working capital outflows mainly reflected accounts receivable and payable movements.
Cash flow from investing activities for the first quarter 2025 was an outflow of $4.0 billion, and included cash capital expenditure of $4.2 billion, and net other investing cash outflows of $0.9 billion which included the drawdowns on loan facilities provided at completion of the sale of The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) in Nigeria, partly offset by divestment proceeds of $0.6 billion.
Net debt and Gearing: At the end of the first quarter 2025, net debt was $41.5 billion, compared with $38.8 billion at the end of the fourth quarter 2024. This reflects free cash flow of $5.3 billion, which included working capital outflows of $2.7 billion, more than offset by share buybacks of $3.3 billion, cash dividends paid to Shell plc shareholders of $2.2 billion, lease additions of $1.3 billion including those related to the Pavilion Energy Pte. Ltd. acquisition and interest payments of $0.8 billion. Gearing was 18.7% at the end of the first quarter 2025, compared with 17.7% at the end of the fourth quarter 2024, mainly driven by higher net debt.
SHELL PLC
1st QUARTER 2025 UNAUDITED RESULTS
Shareholder distributions
Total shareholder distributions in the quarter amounted to $5.5 billion comprising repurchases of shares of $3.3 billion and cash dividends paid to Shell plc shareholders of $2.2 billion. Dividends declared to Shell plc shareholders for the first quarter 2025 amount to $0.3580 per share. Shell has now completed $3.5 billion of share buybacks announced in the fourth quarter 2024 results announcement. Today, Shell announces a share buyback programme of $3.5 billion which is expected to be completed by the second quarter 2025 results announcement.
This Unaudited Condensed Interim Financial Report, together with supplementary financial and operational disclosure for this quarter, is available at www.shell.com/investors 3.
1.All earnings amounts are shown post-tax, unless stated otherwise.
2.Adjusted EBITDA is without interest, taxation, exploration well write-offs and depreciation, depletion and amortisation (DD&A) expenses.
3.Not incorporated by reference.
PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENTS
Integrated Gas
In March 2025, we completed the previously announced acquisition of 100% of the shares in Pavilion Energy Pte. Ltd. (Pavilion Energy). Pavilion Energy, headquartered in Singapore, operates a global LNG trading business with contracted supply volume of approximately 6.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).
Upstream
In January 2025, we announced the start of production at the Shell-operated Whale floating production facility in the Gulf of America. The Whale development is owned by Shell (60%, operator) and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (40%).
In February 2025, we announced production restart at the Penguins field in the UK North Sea with a modern floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility (Shell 50%, operator; NEO Energy 50%). The previous export route for this field was via the Brent Charlie platform, which ceased production in 2021 and is being decommissioned.
In February 2025, we signed an agreement to acquire a 15.96% working interest from ConocoPhillips Company in the Shell-operated Ursa platform in the Gulf of America. The transaction completed on May 1, 2025 which increases Shell's working interest in the Ursa platform from 45.3884% to 61.3484%.
In March 2025, we completed the sale of SPDC to Renaissance, as announced in January 2024.
In March 2025, we announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) for Gato do Mato, a deep-water project in the pre-salt area of the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The Gato do Mato Consortium includes Shell (operator, 50%), Ecopetrol (30%), TotalEnergies (20%) and Pré-Sal Petróleo S.A. (PPSA) acting as the manager of the production sharing contract (PSC).
Chemicals and Products
In January 2025, CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Limited (CSPC), a 50:50 joint venture between Shell and CNOOC Petrochemicals Investment Ltd, took an FID to expand its petrochemical complex in Daya Bay, Huizhou, south China.
In April 2025, we completed the previously announced sale of our Energy and Chemicals Park in Singapore to CAPGC Pte. Ltd. (CAPGC), a joint venture between Chandra Asri Capital Pte. Ltd. and Glencore Asian Holdings Pte. Ltd.
In April 2025, we agreed to sell our 16.125% interest in Colonial Enterprises, Inc. ("Colonial”) to Colossus AcquireCo LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. and its institutional partners (collectively, "Brookfield”), for $1.45 billion. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Renewables and Energy Solutions
In January 2025, we completed the previously announced acquisition of a 100% equity stake in RISEC Holdings, LLC, which owns a 609-megawatt (MW) two-unit combined-cycle gas turbine power plant in Rhode Island, USA.
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PERFORMANCE BY SEGMENT
INTEGRATED GAS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quarters | $ million | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Q1 2025 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2024 | %¹ | Reference | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2,789 | 1,744 | 2,761 | +60 | Income/(loss) for the period | ||||||||||||||||||||||
306 | (421) | (919) | Of which: Identified items | A | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2,483 | 2,165 | 3,680 | +15 | Adjusted Earnings | A | |||||||||||||||||||||
4,735 | 4,568 | 6,136 | +4 | Adjusted EBITDA | A | |||||||||||||||||||||
3,463 | 4,391 | 4,712 | -21 | Cash flow from operating activities | A | |||||||||||||||||||||
1,116 | 1,337 | 1,041 | Cash capital expenditure | C | ||||||||||||||||||||||
126 | 116 | 137 | +9 | Liquids production available for sale (thousand b/d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4,644 | 4,574 | 4,954 | +2 | Natural gas production available for sale (million scf/d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
927 | 905 | 992 | +2 | Total production available for sale (thousand boe/d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6.60 | 7.06 | 7.58 | -6 | LNG liquefaction volumes (million tonnes) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16.49 | 15.50 | 16.87 | +6 | LNG sales volumes (million tonnes) |
1.Q1 on Q4 change
Integrated Gas includes liquefied natural gas (LNG), conversion of natural gas into gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuels and other products. It includes natural gas and liquids exploration and extraction, and the operation of the upstream and midstream infrastructure necessary to deliver these to market. Integrated Gas also includes the marketing, trading and optimisation of LNG.
Quarter Analysis1
Income/(loss) for the period was driven by the same factors as Adjusted Earnings and includes identified items.
Adjusted Earnings, compared with the fourth quarter 2024, reflected lower exploration well write-offs ($277 million), partly offset by lower LNG liquefaction volumes (decrease of $68 million). The net effect of contributions from trading and optimisation and realised prices was in line with the fourth quarter 2024 despite higher unfavourable (non-cash) impact of expiring hedging contracts.
Identified items in the first quarter 2025 included favourable movements of $362 million due to the fair value accounting of commodity derivatives, that as part of Shell's normal business are entered into as hedges for mitigation of economic exposures on future purchases, sales and inventory. These favourable movements compare with the fourth quarter 2024 which included impairment charges of $339 million and a loss of $96 million related to sale of assets, partly offset by favourable movements of $109 million due to the fair value accounting of commodity derivatives.
Adjusted EBITDA2 was driven by the same factors as Adjusted Earnings.
Cash flow from operating activities for the quarter was primarily driven by Adjusted EBITDA, and net cash inflows related to derivatives of $542 million, partly offset by tax payments of $773 million and working capital outflows of $687 million.
Total oil and gas production, compared with the fourth quarter 2024, increased by 2% mainly due to lower planned maintenance in Pearl GTL (Qatar), partly offset by unplanned maintenance and weather constraints in Australia. LNG liquefaction volumes decreased by 6% mainly due to unplanned maintenance and weather constraints in Australia.
1.All earnings amounts are shown post-tax, unless stated otherwise.
2.Adjusted EBITDA is without interest, taxation, exploration well write-offs and DD&A expenses.
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UPSTREAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quarters | $ million | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Q1 2025 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2024 | %¹ | Reference | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2,080 | 1,031 | 2,272 | +102 | Income/(loss) for the period | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(257) | (651) | 339 | Of which: Identified items | A | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2,337 | 1,682 | 1,933 | +39 | Adjusted Earnings | A | |||||||||||||||||||||
7,387 | 7,676 | 7,888 | -4 | Adjusted EBITDA | A | |||||||||||||||||||||
3,945 | 4,509 | 5,727 | -13 | Cash flow from operating activities | A | |||||||||||||||||||||
1,923 | 2,076 | 2,010 | Cash capital expenditure | C | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1,335 | 1,332 | 1,331 | - | Liquids production available for sale (thousand b/d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3,020 | 3,056 | 3,136 | -1 | Natural gas production available for sale (million scf/d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1,855 | 1,859 | 1,872 | - | Total production available for sale (thousand boe/d) |
1.Q1 on Q4 change
The Upstream segment includes exploration and extraction of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. It also markets and transports oil and gas, and operates the infrastructure necessary to deliver them to the market.
Quarter Analysis1
Income/(loss) for the period was driven by the same factors as Adjusted Earnings and includes identified items.
Adjusted Earnings, compared with the fourth quarter 2024, reflected lower exploration well write-offs ($346 million), lower depreciation, depletion and amortisation expenses (decrease of $330 million), lower operating expenses ($194 million) and comparative favourable tax movements ($179 million), partly offset by lower volumes (decrease of $359 million).
Identified items in the first quarter 2025 included a charge of $509 million related to the UK Energy Profits Levy, partly offset by gains of $159 million from disposal of assets and gains of $95 million related to the impact of the strengthening Brazilian real on a deferred tax position. These charges and favourable movements compare with the fourth quarter 2024 which included a loss of $161 million related to the impact of the weakening Brazilian real on a deferred tax position, and impairment charges of $152 million.
Adjusted EBITDA2 was driven by the same factors as Adjusted Earnings.
Cash flow from operating activities for the first quarter 2025 was primarily driven by Adjusted EBITDA, partly offset by tax payments of $1,999 million and working capital outflows of $913 million.
Total production, compared with the fourth quarter 2024, decreased mainly due to the SPDC divestment, largely offset by new oil production.
1.All earnings amounts are shown post-tax, unless stated otherwise.
2.Adjusted EBITDA is without interest, taxation, exploration well write-offs and DD&A expenses.
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MARKETING | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quarters | $ million | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Q1 2025 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2024 | %¹ | Reference | ||||||||||||||||||||||
814 | 103 |