Abu dhabi: ADNOC Drilling company announced its fourth quarter and full year 2025 results, revealing a significant increase in revenue and profitability. The company’s revenue rose 22 percent year-on-year to $4.9 billion, while earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) increased by 9 percent to $2.2 billion. Net profit saw an 11 percent rise, reaching $1.45 billion. The total dividends for 2025 amounted to $1 billion.
According to Emirates News Agency, ADNOC Drilling’s outstanding financial performance was driven by sustained rig utilization, resilient long-term contracts, and the accelerated adoption of AI-powered technologies across its fleet. The company achieved industry-leading return on equity (ROE), resilient free cash flow, and visible revenue coverage, allowing it to convert scale into shareholder returns. This supported ADNOC’s production capacity growth through faster well delivery, lower unit costs, and advanced technology deployment.
Abdulla Ateya Al Messabi, CEO of ADNOC Drilling, remarked that 2025 was a defining year for the company. He attributed the record-breaking results to the discipline, innovation, and commitment to operational excellence and safety demonstrated by the company’s workforce. Al Messabi emphasized the company’s ongoing transformation into the region’s most advanced energy services company through execution excellence, technology-led efficiency, and a disciplined approach to capital allocation and operations.
The Board of Directors recommended a fourth quarter 2025 dividend of $250 million, approximately 5.7 fils per share, expected to be distributed in the second half of April 2026. Together with prior payments, this brings total dividends for 2025 to $1.0 billion, aligning with the company’s enhanced progressive dividend policy. All dividend declarations, including the proposed annual dividend floor for 2026 and planned minimum aggregate distributions of approximately $6.8 billion for 2025-2030, are subject to shareholder approval at the Annual General Meetings.
For 2026, and consistent with the dividend policy, ADNOC Drilling set an annual dividend floor of $1.05 billion, reflecting year-on-year dividend growth supported by strong cash generation, a robust balance sheet, and disciplined capital allocation. The multi-year dividend framework, announced at the ADNOC Investor Majlis in October 2025, targets a minimum of $6.8 billion in cumulative dividends from 2025 to 2030. This provides long-term visibility for shareholders, equating to approximately AED1.56 per share and an implied cumulative yield exceeding 28 percent, based on market data as of February 11, 2026.
