Shell to spend US$54.6bn on oil, gas upstream projects by 2025

Global spend on planned announced upstream projects

Total new-build capital expenditure (capex) of US$846bn is expected to be spent globally on planned and announced upstream projects from 2019 to 2025.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc leads among all oil and gas companies and is expected to spend US$54.6bn on upcoming upstream projects during the forecast period, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company.

The company’s report: ‘H1 2019 Global Oil and Gas Upstream Capital Expenditure Outlook by Key Countries and Companies to 2025 – Shell Leads New-Build Upstream Capex Outlook among Companies' revealed that Gazprom and Exxon Mobil Corp are the next top spenders with new-build capex of US$49.8bn and US$43bn, respectively.

Soorya Tejomoortula, oil and gas analyst at GlobalData, commented, “Shell has spread its new-build capex for the development of 60 upcoming upstream projects. This will further aid the company to expand its scale, and increase production and cash flows.”

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