Royal Dutch Shell PLC, commonly known as Shell, is a British-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in England. It is one of the oil and gas “supermajors” and the third-largest company in the world measured by 2018 revenues (and the largest based in Europe).

In the 2019 Forbes Global 2000, Shell was ranked as the ninth-largest company in the world (and the largest outside China and the United States), and the largest energy company. Shell was first in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest companies; in that year its revenues were equivalent to 84% of the Dutch national $556 billion GDP.

Shell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, transport, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation, and trading. It also has renewable energy activities, including biofuels, wind, energy-kite systems, and hydrogen.

Shell has operations in over 70 countries, produces around 3.7 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and has 44,000 service stations worldwide.

Shell has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of £216 billion at the close of trading on 27 June 2019, by far the largest of any company listed on the London Stock Exchange. It has secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange. As of January 2013, Shell’s largest shareholder was Capital Research Global Investors with 9.85% ahead of BlackRock in second with 6.89%. According to the CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017, Shell was the ninth-largest corporate producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the period 1988-2015.

Traded as:           LSE: RDSA, RDSB; Euronext Amsterdam: RDSA; NYSE: RDS.A, RDS.B; PSE: SHLPH; FTSE 100 Component

Industry:              Oil and gas

Predecessor       :Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (1890); formerly the Royal Dutch Company for the Exploitation of Petroleum Wells in the Dutch East Indies

The “Shell” Transport and Trading Company Limited of the United Kingdom (1897)

Founded:

April 1907; 113 years ago (original amalgamation)

20 July 2005; 15 years ago in Shell Centre, London (current entity)

Founders:

“Shell” line:

• Marcus Samuel
• Samuel Samuel

Royal Dutch line:

• Jean B.A. Kessler
• Henri Deterding
• Hugo Loudon

Headquarters:  

Haagse Hout, The Hague,​ Netherlands (Headquarters)

Shell Centre, London,​ England (Registered office)

Products:            

• LNG
• Lubricants
• Natural gas
• Petrochemicals
• Petroleum

Divisions:            

• Shell Chemicals
• Shell Gas & Power
• Subsidiaries       
• Shell Australia
• Shell South Africa
• Shell Canada
• Shell Hong Kong
• Shell Nigeria
• Shell Oil Company
• Shell India
• Shell Oman
• Shell Pakistan
• Shell Philippines
• Shell Egypt

Website:              www.shell.com