{"id":101771,"date":"2026-05-07T06:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/101771\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:15:33","slug":"oil-shell-tops-profit-estimates-as-iran-war-drives-crude-price-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/101771\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil: Shell tops profit estimates as Iran war drives crude price surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Shell gas logo is displayed at a gas station on April 27, 2026 in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Bell | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>British energy major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SHEL\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shell<\/a> on Thursday reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter profit as the Iran war sent energy prices soaring.<\/p>\n<p>The oil giant posted adjusted earnings of $6.92 billion for the first three months of the year, beating analyst expectations of $6.1 billion, according to an LSEG-compiled consensus. A separate, company-provided analyst forecast had put Shell&#8217;s expected first-quarter profit at $6.36 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Shell reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/02\/shell-q1-earnings-2025.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adjusted earnings of $5.58 billion<\/a> over the same period a year ago and $3.26 billion over the final three months of 2025. <\/p>\n<p>This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Shell gas logo is displayed at a gas station on April 27, 2026 in Austin, Texas. Brandon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[157,328,135,6811,154,24939,34,123,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-101771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-breaking-news-markets","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-news","11":"tag-earnings","12":"tag-energy","13":"tag-europe-earnings","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-oil-and-gas","16":"tag-shell-plc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116531830617565351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}