Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco, has posted a huge jump in quarterly profit. The production increase and higher crude oil and gas prices were the reasons for the huge increase.
The highest profit since listing came days after it overtook Apple to become the world's most valuable company.
On Sunday, the shares rose another 4.7% to leave them worth more than $2 trillion. Apple was worth more than $2 trillion at the close.
Since the invasion of Ukraine, oil and gas prices have gone up, causing more supply chain disruption.
The price of US oil was $110 a barrel on Saturday, while the price of British oil was $111 a barrel.
The first quarter of this year was Shell's highest profit figure since 2008 and it was three times higher than the first quarter of last year.
The company recorded a decade-high quarterly profit of $6.2 billion, but took a $25 billion hit from exiting its Russian joint venture.
The price of Arab Light crude in Asia was slashed from $9.35 to $4.40 a barrel in order to help ease rising energy costs for buyers.
Despite increased volatility in global markets, the company aims to provide affordable and reliable energy supplies.
Energy security is vital and we are investing for the long term, expanding our oil and gas production capacity to meet anticipated demand growth and creating long-term shareholder value by exploiting our low lifting cost, low upstream carbon intensity, and integrated downstream business.
The chief of the world's largest oil producer said it had expanded its downstream efforts in Asia and Europe.
Saudi Aramco did not reply immediately.
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