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Royal Dutch Shell Company

Royal Dutch Shell plc
Public limited company
Traded as : ,
EuronextRDSA, RDSB
RDS.A, RDS.B
FTSE 100 Component
ISIN GB00B03MLX29
Industry Oil and gas
Predecessor Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (1890)
The Shell Transport and Trading Company Limited (1897)
Founded February 1907; 110 years ago (1907-02)
Headquarters The Hague, Netherlands
(Headquarters)
Shell Centre, London, England
(Registered office)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Charles O. Holliday (Chairman)
Ben van Beurden (CEO)
Products Petroleum, natural gas, and other petrochemicals
Revenue DecreaseUS$233.6 billion (2016)
Increase US$2.36 billion (2016)
Profit Increase US$4.57 billion (2016)
Total assets Increase US$411.2 billion (2016)
Total equity Increase US$186.6 billion (2016)
Number of employees
93,000 (2016)
Subsidiaries Shell Australia
Shell South Africa
Shell Canada
Shell Chemicals
Shell Gas & Power
Shell Hong Kong
Shell Nigeria
Shell Oil Company
Shell Pakistan
Website www.shell.com

Royal Dutch Shell plc (: , ), commonly known as Shell, is a British–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom. It is one of the six oil and gas "supermajors" and the sixth-largest company in the world measured by 2016 revenues (and the largest based in Europe). 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 Netherlands' $556 billion GDP.

Shell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has renewable energy activities in the form of biofuels and wind. 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. As of 31 December 2014, Shell had total proved reserves of 13.7 billion barrels (2.18×109 m3) of oil equivalent.Shell Oil Company, its principal subsidiary in the United States, is one of its largest businesses. Shell holds 50% of Raízen, a joint venture with Cosan, which is the third-largest Brazil-based energy company by revenues and a major producer of ethanol.


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