Shell expects its third-quarter earnings to receive a boost from stronger trading results in its natural gas and chemicals and products divisions compared to the second quarter, the UK-based supermajor said on Friday in an update on the expected Q3 results. Trading helped Shell and other majors active in the gas trading business to post record earnings for 2022 amid natural gas price spikes and the overall extreme market volatility in energy commodities. But the second quarter of 2023 was not so good for trading at the supermajors, which saw their…
