Shell
Shell produced 215.4 MMbbl of oil and 419.0 Bcf of natural gas in 2025. 3,289 operated producing wells tracked, trailing 12 months per region.
- Largest operator by operated oil in the Gulf of Mexico, 2025.
- Operated 27.5% of the oil produced in the Gulf of Mexico, 2025.
- Oil production rose 9% in 2025 from 2024.
Shell's figures include production filed by its subsidiaries under their own names.
Shell's figures include production filed by its subsidiaries under their own names. Under Current operator an old month can show a later company.
Production
Still arriving: Oct 2026 <1% filed.
All from what the source published. All held at well grain.
How the volume breaks down
- 89.9% Reported by the official source by well
- under 0.01% Reported by the official source as a lease, facility, field or state total. Published without per-well detail.
- 6.4% Reported by the official source as a lease total, split across the lease's wells. The regional total shown is the reported number, to rounding.
- 0.91% Reported by the official source for a longer period, spread across its months. The period total is the reported number.
- 2.9% A series adjusted to match official published figures: a well's cumulative, a later correction netted into the months before it, a field's oil volume from the royalty file for a month missing from the production report, or a state's yearly total from a second official source.
Every barrel here starts from what the official source published for the months measured. Measured over January 1930 to July 2026.
The gray “without per-well detail” band is volume the source reports above the well: fields, facilities, or leases the source publishes as one total. It is included so the stack still sums to the whole entity.
Still arriving: Oct 2026 <1% filed.
The gray “without per-well detail” band is volume the source reports above the well: fields, facilities, or leases the source publishes as one total. It is included so the stack still sums to the whole entity.
Still arriving: Oct 2026 <1% filed.
All from what the source published. All held at well grain.
How the volume breaks down
- 94.1% Reported by the official source by well
- 3.7% Reported by the official source as a lease total, split across the lease's wells. The regional total shown is the reported number, to rounding.
- 1.0% Reported by the official source for a longer period, spread across its months. The period total is the reported number.
- 1.1% A series adjusted to match official published figures: a well's cumulative, a later correction netted into the months before it, a field's oil volume from the royalty file for a month missing from the production report, or a state's yearly total from a second official source.
- under 0.01% The official source filed this volume for its reporting unit without naming the well. The well shown is our attribution, made only where a measured one-well ground identifies it; the volume itself is the source's own figure, untouched.
Every cubic foot here starts from what the official source published for the months measured. Measured over January 1930 to July 2026.
Still arriving: Oct 2026 <1% filed.
The bands group wells by when they first produced.
About this chart
The stack shows what is holding today's rate up and how much of it is new drilling. The bands draw the filings already in.
These volumes are the production from the wells and facilities this company operates. Ownership works differently: other parties hold interests in these wells, and this company holds interests in wells that other companies operate. How we attribute production to a company
Annual table (full history)
best estimate incl. unsplit totals, adjusted and attributed
| Year | Oil (MMbbl) | Gas produced (Bcf) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 215.4 | 419 |
| 2024 | 196.9 | 365 |
| 2023 | 196.8 | 357 |
| 2022 | 180.4 | 348 |
| 2021 | 193.7 | 399 |
| 2020 | 194.5 | 508 |
| 2019 | 207.8 | 736 |
| 2018 | 171.8 | 728 |
| 2017 | 153.5 | 640 |
| 2016 | 144.1 | 675 |
| 2015 | 150.4 | 674 |
| 2014 | 147.5 | 796 |
| 2013 | 114.5 | 872 |
| 2012 | 118.6 | 847 |
| 2011 | 114.9 | 744 |
| 2010 | 119.4 | 715 |
| 2009 | 111.2 | 690 |
| 2008 | 112.3 | 722 |
| 2007 | 137.4 | 859 |
| 2006 | 130.1 | 887 |
| 2005 | 128.0 | 849 |
| 2004 | 174.2 | 973 |
| 2003 | 175.5 | 1,092 |
| 2002 | 186.8 | 1,182 |
| 2001 | 169.0 | 1,197 |
| 2000 | 165.0 | 1,285 |
| 1999 | 140.7 | 1,357 |
| 1998 | 135.1 | 1,264 |
| 1997 | 118.3 | 1,190 |
| 1996 | 125.0 | 1,309 |
| 1995 | 124.1 | 1,238 |
| 1994 | 114.2 | 1,141 |
| 1993 | 107.3 | 1,077 |
| 1992 | 82.1 | 753 |
| 1991 | 74.9 | 696 |
| 1990 | 68.3 | 712 |
| 1989 | 77.4 | 741 |
| 1988 | 87.8 | 816 |
| 1987 | 104.6 | 886 |
| 1986 | 109.4 | 871 |
| 1985 | 106.7 | 805 |
| 1984 | 115.9 | 762 |
| 1983 | 115.0 | 743 |
| 1982 | 105.4 | 809 |
| 1981 | 83.2 | 788 |
| 1980 | 83.9 | 739 |
| 1979 | 77.4 | 751 |
| 1978 | 79.1 | 739 |
| 1977 | 81.5 | 683 |
| 1976 | 53.1 | 462 |
| 1975 | 59.2 | 425 |
| 1974 | 69.0 | 419 |
| 1973 | 79.4 | 454 |
| 1972 | 80.1 | 498 |
| 1971 | 78.7 | 447 |
| 1970 | 60.0 | 392 |
| 1969 | 48.3 | 373 |
| 1968 | 43.5 | 306 |
| 1967 | 39.7 | 234 |
| 1966 | 30.7 | 159 |
| 1965 | 24.2 | 144 |
| 1964 | 22.1 | 149 |
| 1963 | 20.8 | 128 |
| 1962 | 18.6 | 96 |
| 1961 | 15.8 | 34 |
| 1960 | 13.8 | 29 |
| 1959 | 5.3 | 13 |
| 1958 | 3.7 | 8 |
| 1957 | 3.5 | 7 |
| 1956 | 3.2 | 7 |
| 1955 | 2.9 | 6 |
| 1954 | 2.8 | 6 |
| 1953 | 2.7 | 6 |
| 1952 | 2.6 | 5 |
| 1951 | 2.5 | 5 |
| 1950 | 2.4 | 4 |
| 1949 | 2.3 | 3 |
| 1948 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1947 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1946 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1945 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1944 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1943 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1942 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1941 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 1940 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 1939 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 1938 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 1937 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 1936 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 1935 | 1.9 | 1 |
| 1934 | 1.6 | 1 |
| 1933 | 1.5 | 1 |
| 1932 | 1.3 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1.2 | 1 |
| 1930 | 0.6 | <1 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Monthly table (last 24 months)
| Month | Oil (Mbbl) | Gas produced (MMcf) |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05 | 17,314.8 | 40,979 |
| 2026-04 | 19,670.7 | 44,713 |
| 2026-03 | 19,558.3 | 43,283 |
| 2026-02 | 15,814.7 | 36,619 |
| 2026-01 | 18,187.7 | 41,970 |
| 2025-12 | 19,240.4 | 42,268 |
| 2025-11 | 18,764.0 | 41,684 |
| 2025-10 | 20,187.2 | 41,031 |
| 2025-09 | 18,578.9 | 33,380 |
| 2025-08 | 20,466.4 | 36,972 |
| 2025-07 | 20,428.1 | 36,513 |
| 2025-06 | 17,886.4 | 34,540 |
| 2025-05 | 16,224.6 | 33,056 |
| 2025-04 | 16,670.0 | 31,989 |
| 2025-03 | 16,655.9 | 32,440 |
| 2025-02 | 14,563.2 | 26,452 |
| 2025-01 | 15,782.6 | 28,661 |
| 2024-12 | 16,586.7 | 30,179 |
| 2024-11 | 16,420.4 | 29,623 |
| 2024-10 | 16,606.3 | 30,019 |
| 2024-09 | 14,686.1 | 27,737 |
| 2024-08 | 16,448.7 | 30,968 |
| 2024-07 | 16,193.8 | 29,633 |
| 2024-06 | 15,571.6 | 29,452 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Source: CommoVision · Shell, data through July 2026.
Well map
- Oil 9,768
- Natural gas 7,773
- Undetermined 5,892
About this map
Undetermined means not enough signal to settle it. Producing wells are the ones that reported oil or gas in the trailing 12 months per region.
Type curves
best estimate incl. adjusted and attributed
Horizontal wells only. Average production per well, for wells grouped by when they first produced.
How these curves are built
Horizontal wells only: 659 of the 886 wells in these cohorts. Average daily production per well, for wells grouped by when they first produced. Includes every well of the cohort that is old enough at each month. Wells that are shut in or have stopped producing count as zero, so the average reflects the full cohort, not just survivors. Rates are calendar-day (volume ÷ days in month). The cumulative axis accumulates those same monthly averages at the average month length. Months not yet fully reported are excluded. The 2010-2014 curve draws those years as one group. The chart opens on average daily rate against months on production, the rate on a log scale. The view control switches to rate against cumulative production per well, on the same log rate scale, or to cumulative production per well against months on production, on a linear scale. Every view draws the same cohorts from the same production history. Each cohort with a dashed curve is solid through the last month all the wells in its curve sit inside fully reported data. Past it the dashed curve carries the same wells forward, on our forecast where a well’s own record ends, for up to five years. A dashed curve runs as far as at least nine in ten of its wells are accounted for. A cohort with no dashed curve is drawn only through the months where at least 50% of its wells are old enough for the month to be fully reported. A well that is old enough but shut in still counts, as zero. The measured months are what these wells reported. In the forward months each well counts its own reported figure for each month it has one, our forecast for each month it has only that, and zero for the rest. The forward average counts every well in the curve. The drawn forecast runs up to five years past the measured months. Line thickness tracks how many wells each curve is drawn from. 15 wells are counted here but not shown on the age axis: they started producing in 1995 or earlier, too close to the start of our records for their region to verify their true age.
Cohort summary table
| First produced | Wells in curve | Peak oil (bbl/d per well) | Month-12 oil (bbl/d per well) | Cum oil in series (Mbbl per well) | Peak gas (Mcf/d per well) | Month-12 gas (Mcf/d per well) | Cum gas in series (Bcf per well) | Months in series | Wells old enough at last month in series | Forecast months drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 13 | 530 | — | 31.7 | 5,631 | — | 0.3 | 2 | 100% | 60 |
| 2025 | 29 | 220 | — | 43.2 | 8,987 | — | 2.4 | 10 | 100% | 60 |
| 2024 | 36 | 135 | 81.8 | 55.0 | 7,518 | 3,968 | 3.8 | 22 | 100% | 60 |
| 2023 | 18 | 702 | 256 | 223 | 8,299 | 6,221 | 5.6 | 33 | 100% | 60 |
| 2022 | 25 | 287 | 248 | 250 | 10,924 | 7,185 | 7.0 | 46 | 100% | 60 |
| 2021 | 6 | 2,063 | 1,376 | 2,319 | 1,045 | 806 | 1.4 | 66 | 100% | 60 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,486 | 1,068 | 1,462 | 5,995 | 4,738 | 5.8 | 84 | 100% | 60 |
| 2018 | 28 | 1,112 | 515 | 581 | 7,695 | 5,361 | 7.3 | 94 | 100% | 60 |
| 2017 | 41 | 41.5 | 34.3 | 26.1 | 4,557 | 3,012 | 4.3 | 112 | 59% | 60 |
| 2016 | 62 | 211 | 145 | 393 | 3,334 | 2,154 | 4.0 | 118 | 100% | 60 |
| 2015 | 52 | 34.7 | 4.4 | 8.9 | 2,083 | 1,612 | 2.6 | 136 | 60% | 60 |
| 2010-2014 | 336 | 371 | 358 | 559 | 2,071 | 1,768 | 2.9 | 142 | 100% | 60 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
Source: CommoVision · Shell type curves, per-well production by first-production cohort.
Recent permitting
About this chart
Approvals of every permit type per month, the 24 months to Oct 2026. The last bar is Oct 2026 through October 27, 2026 (2 so far), drawn hatched. All 572 approved in the 365 days to October 27, 2026 are permits to drill a new well. Permits to drill a new well: 572 in the 365 days to October 27, 2026 and 42 in the last 90 days of that window. How permits are counted.
- Shell was granted 572 well permits in the 365 days to October 27, 2026. Of those, 42 came in the last 90 days of that window. The latest approval on record is dated October 27, 2026.
- All 572 approved in the 365 days to October 27, 2026 are permits to drill a new well. Permits to drill a new well: 572 in the 365 days to October 27, 2026 and 42 in the last 90 days of that window.
- Permits counted here come from Alberta, British Columbia and California.
- Alabama, Argentina, Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, Manitoba, Michigan, Mississippi and Pacific OCS reach this page through production data alone.
Well permits approved per month: full table
| Month | Permits approved |
|---|---|
| Oct 2026 (through October 27, 2026) | 2 |
| Sep 2026 | 2 |
| Aug 2026 | 38 |
| Jul 2026 | 18 |
| Jun 2026 | 2 |
| May 2026 | 48 |
| Apr 2026 | 23 |
| Mar 2026 | 106 |
| Feb 2026 | 45 |
| Jan 2026 | 69 |
| Dec 2025 | 107 |
| Nov 2025 | 92 |
| Oct 2025 | 57 |
| Sep 2025 | 18 |
| Aug 2025 | 13 |
| Jul 2025 | 21 |
| Jun 2025 | 27 |
| May 2025 | 47 |
| Apr 2025 | 20 |
| Mar 2025 | 74 |
| Feb 2025 | 120 |
| Jan 2025 | 91 |
| Dec 2024 | 0 |
| Nov 2024 | 33 |
Source: CommoVision (commovision.com)
What we cover here
Each row names the grain a region’s production is held at. Where a source publishes at a coarser grain, the page says so.
| Data | Grain | Since | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alberta production | project + well | 1962-01 | ~100% of StatCan (oil) |
| Alaska production | well | 1919-12 | ~100–101% of EIA |
| Alabama production | lease + well | 1944-04 | ~99–101% of EIA |
| Arkansas production | well | 1920-04 | ~62–101% of EIA |
| Argentina production | well | 2006-01 | — |
| British Columbia production | well | 1954-06 | — |
| Brazil production | well | 1941-12 | — |
| California production | well | 1944-03 | ~98–101% of EIA |
| Colorado production | well | 1999-01 | ~100% of EIA |
| Gulf of Mexico production | well | 1947-11 | ~100% of EIA |
| Kansas production | well | 1987-01 | ~99% of EIA |
| Louisiana production | well | 1977-01 | ~97–98% of EIA |
| Manitoba production | well | 1951-02 | ~100% of StatCan (oil) |
| Michigan production | well | 1980-08 | ~100% of EIA |
| Mississippi production | well | 1946-07 | ~100–102% of EIA |
| Montana production | well | 1986-01 | ~96–100% of EIA |
| North Dakota production | well | 1951-04 | ~99–100% of EIA |
| New Mexico production | well | 1924-01 | ~98–100% of EIA |
| Oklahoma production | lease + well | 1990-07 | ~99–100% of EIA |
| Pennsylvania production | well | 1980-01 | ~100% of EIA |
| Pacific OCS production | well | 1968-06 | ~100% of EIA (oil) |
| Texas production | well | 1993-01 | ~100% of EIA |
| Utah production | well | 1984-01 | ~100% of EIA |
| Wyoming production | well | 1978-01 | ~100–101% of EIA |
Where a row carries a Benchmark figure, the cell names the published estimate it compares against: the EIA’s for United States rows, Statistics Canada’s for Canadian rows.
About the benchmark comparisons
Where a row carries a Benchmark figure, it names the agency it compares against: the EIA for United States rows, Statistics Canada for Canadian rows. The compared series are produced differently from ours, so recent months can differ in either direction.
Coverage rows for Shell are regenerated at every build from the same catalog of sources the data is built from.
Top regions by 2025 operated production
| Region | Oil (MMbbl) | Gas produced (Bcf) | Share of 2025 output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf of Mexico | 195.4 | 214.9 | 86.2% |
| British Columbia | 0 | 189.9 | 5.2% |
| Argentina | 11 | 9.1 | 4.8% |
| Brazil | 9.1 | 4.4 | 3.8% |
| Alberta | 0 | 0.7 | 0.0% |
| Texas | — | — | 0.0% |
Share of output counts oil and gas together, gas at its market-value weight.
— means no figure is published for that period.
What the data shows
- Shell produced 215.4 MMbbl of oil and 419.0 Bcf of natural gas in 2025.
- Shell oil production reached its highest level on record in 2025 at 215.4 MMbbl.
- Shell operated production across 24 reporting regions in 4 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, United States) in our coverage.
- 3,289 operated producing wells tracked, trailing 12 months per region.
Corporate history
- September 2026 Arc Resources became part of Shell.
- August 2025 Assets moved from Strathcona Resources to Arc Resources.
- December 2021 Assets moved from Shell to ConocoPhillips.
- April 2021 Seven Generations Energy Ltd. merged into Arc Resources.
- March 2019 O&G Developments Ltd S.A. continued as Shell Argentina S.A..
- February 2016 Shell acquired BG Group plc.
- July 2010 Assets moved from East Resources Inc. to Shell.
- July 2010 Shell acquired East Resources Management LLC.
- April 2003 Arc Resources acquired Star Oil & Gas Ltd. (Calgary, AB).
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