Shell Posts Higher Q1 Income, Revenue
Shell (SHEL.L, SHELL.AS) said Thursday that its income and revenue for the first quarter increased year over year.Income attributable to shareholders for the three months ended March 31 was $5.69 billion, compared with $4.78 billion a year earlier. EPS moved to $1 from $0.79.The oil and gas giant's revenue was $69.69 billion, compared with $69.23 billion a year ago.Meanwhile, the board declared a first-quarter dividend of $0.3906 per share. It previously paid a dividend of $0.3580 per share.For the second quarter, Shell expects integrated gas production to be between 580,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day and 640,000 boe/d. LNG liquefaction volumes are expected to be in the range of 6.8 million tonnes to 7.4 million tonnes. Upstream production is expected to be 1.6 million boe/d to 1.8 million boe/d. Marketing sales volumes are expected to be 2.5 million b/d to 2.7 million b/d.