Headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands
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Public limited company | |
Traded as | : , Euronext: RDSA, RDSB : RDS.A, RDS.B |
Industry | Oil and gas |
Predecessor | Royal Dutch Petroleum (1890) "Shell" Transport and Trading (1897) |
Founded | February 1907 |
Headquarters |
The Hague, Netherlands (Headquarters) Shell Centre, London, United Kingdom (Registered office) |
Area served
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Worldwide |
Key people
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Charles O. Holliday (Chairman) Ben van Beurden (CEO) |
Products | Petroleum, natural gas, and other petrochemicals |
Revenue | US$ 264.96 billion (2015) |
US$ -3.261 billion (2015) | |
Profit | US$ 1.939 billion (2015) |
Total assets | US$ 340.15 billion (2015) |
Total equity | US$ 162.87 billion (2015) |
Number of employees
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94,000 (2015) |
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 |
Royal Dutch Shell plc (: , ), commonly known as Shell, is an Anglo-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 fifth-largest company in the world measured by 2015/16 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.