Shell pockets equivalent of an average UK annual salary ‘every 37 seconds’ as Greenpeace targets oil giant over ‘shameful’ Q2 profits

Greenpeace activists deployed an electric advertising van across central London this morning to coincide with Shell’s colossal second-quarter earnings announcement. Shell today reported almost $10 billion ($9.84 billion or £7.4 billion) in profit for the second quarter of 2026 alone. Greenpeace analysis shows the scale of those profits:Shell made the equivalent of an average UK worker’s annual salary in profit every 37 seconds . Shell’s Q2 profits alone could have funded around 4.7 GW of new onshore wind capacity – enough to generate electricity for around 5.8 million UK homes . Despite this, the oil and gas industry continues to lobby the Burnham government to approve new North Sea oil and gas developments, including the controversial Rosebank and Jackdaw fields.