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Royal Dutch Shell PLC(better known as Shell) is a British-Dutch vertically integrated oil and gas company, formed from the merger of the Dutch Royal Dutch Petroleum and British Shell Transport & Trading. The headquarters of the organization is located in the Netherlands, while the company is registered as a corporation in the UK.

Royal Dutch Shell's activities include the exploration, production, processing and marketing of oil, gas and petroleum products. The company operates in more than 90 countries and has more than 44,000 filling stations worldwide. On April 13, 2015, Shell's market capitalization was estimated at £129.8 billion. The company's shares are included in the calculation of the FTSE 100 index.

history of the company

Royal Dutch Shell was created in February 1907 year through the merger of two competing companies - the Dutch Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and the British "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd. This step was largely due to the need to create serious competition. Standard Oil. For a number of reasons, the companies operated as an association, but at the same time had separate legal entities. Under the terms of the merger, 60% of the property was transferred to the Dutch company, 40% - to the British.

Royal Dutch Petroleum Company- a company founded in 1890 year in The Hague to develop a deposit in Sumatra, in the Dutch East Indies. Oil deposits in this area were discovered as early as 1885, but funds were needed to start work. Herself n The oil in Sumatra was quite light, and, accordingly, well suited for the production of gasoline, which made mining in this region very promising.

The company got its name Royal Dutch from the fact that the concessionaires secured the support of King William III.

Shell Transport and Trading Company Ltd. was founded by two brothers - Markus Samuel (1st Viscount Bearsted) and Samuel Samuel in 1897 year for the transportation of kerosene from Batumi to the Middle East through the Suez Canal

Their father owned an antique office in Houndsditch (London area). In 1833, he decided to expand his business by importing and selling sea shells. In honor of these shells, the brothers decided to name new company("Shell" in English means "sea shell").

During the First World War, Shell was the main supplier of fuel to the British armed forces, as well as sole supplier aviation fuel. In addition, the company supplied 80% of TNT.

In 1919, Shell took control of the Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company and in 1921 formed Shell-Mex Limited, which began marketing products under trademarks Shell and Eagle. Shell Chemicals was formed in 1929. As a result, Shell became the largest oil company in the late 1920s, accounting for 11% of the world's crude oil supply.

In 1931, the Shell Mex House was built, which became the head office of the company. In 1932, partly due to difficult economic conditions, Shell Mex decided to join forces in the UK retail market with British Petroleum and form Shell Mex and BP, a company that lasted until 1975.

AT 1930 Shell's Mexican assets were forcibly transferred to the local government.

After the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940 year, the company's head office was moved to Curacao.

AT 1952 Shell became the first company in the Netherlands to use a computer. The device, dubbed the Ferranti Mark 1, was assembled and installed at the Shell lab in Amsterdam.

In 1970, Shell acquired the mining company Billiton, which was subsequently sold in 1994 and is now part of BHP Billiton.

AT November 2004, after a period of instability caused by the discovery that Shell was inflating the figures for its real oil reserves, it was announced a capital restructuring of the Shell Group and the creation of a new parent company Royal Dutch Shell PLC, with headquarters and tax residence in The Hague (Netherlands), and registered in London. The merger has been completed July 20, 2005. On the same day, Shell Transport & Trading Company PLC was delisted from the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and on November 18, 2005, the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company left the New York NYSE.

In 2009, a tender was awarded by the Iraqi Oil Services to develop the Majnoon field in southern Iran, which contains about 12.6 billion barrels of oil. The result was a consortium led by Shell (45%) and Petronas (30%). The rights to develop West Qurna 1 went to ExxonMobil(60%) and Shell (15%).

In February 2010, Shell entered into a 50/50 joint venture with Brazil's Cosan called Raizen, comprising all of Cosan's core assets and Shell's Brazilian motor and aviation fuel distribution business.

In March 2010, the company announced the sale of part of its assets, including the production of liquefied associated gas, to cover the planned costs of $28 billion. In June of the same year, Royal Dutch Shell acquired the entire business of East Resources, including gas fields, for $4.7 billion.

AT 2013 Shell began selling its US shale gas assets. The corporation also canceled a $20 billion Louisiana shale gas project. The overall productivity of the company in 2013 fell by 38% compared to the previous year. As a result, the value of the company's shares fell by 3%. In February 2014, Shell also sold most of its Australian assets.

On April 8, 2015, Royal Dutch Shell announced its agreement to buy BG Group for $70 billion, however, the issue has not been closed yet.

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Shell in the world

• Africa
  

Shell began oil production in Africa in the 1950s. In 1958, production was launched in Nigeria. The company also produces oil in Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Gabon (at the giant Rabi-Kounga field), Ghana, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia. In August 2014, the company disclosed information about the sale of its stake in four fields in Nigeria.

• Asia

Malaysia

Shell began developing its first oil well in Malaysia in 1910 at Miri, Sarawak. Today, on the site of this oil mine, there is a monument called the Grand Oil Lady. In 1914, Shell built the first refinery in Malaysia and laid a pipeline at Miri.

In 2012, there were 900 Shell filling stations in the country, and processing capacity was about 100,000 barrels per day.

Philippines

In the Philippines, Royal Dutch Shell operates on behalf of its subsidiary, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation, which has a stake in the Pandacan oil storage facility and other key assets.

Singapore

Singapore is the hub of Shell's Asia-Pacific operations. Shell Eastern Petroleum limited (SEPL) has refinery facilities at Pulau Bukom and Shell Chemicals Seraya operates on Jurong Island.

• Europe

Ireland

Shell began selling oil to Ireland in 1902. Exploration and production is handled by Shell E&P Ireland (SEPIL) (formerly Enterprise Energy Ireland) headquartered in Dublin, which was acquired in 2020. The company's main project is the Corrib gas field on the northwest coast. However, during the implementation of the project, Shell encountered a number of difficulties regarding the construction of onshore pipelines and obtaining licenses.

In 2005, Shell transferred the entire fuel business in Ireland to the Topaz Energy Group.

Great Britain

In the UK-owned North Sea, Shell has interests in more than fifty oil and gas fields, 30 offshore production platforms, 30 subsea stations, two floating oil production and storage platforms, an offshore terminal and three onshore gas processing plants. The company's enterprises provide 12% of oil and gas supplies in the UK.

• North America

In America, the business of Royal Dutch Shell Corporation is represented by the until recently practically independent Shell Oil Company, whose shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The change came in the 1990s when Shell bought back Shell Oil Company shares it did not own.

Royal Dutch Shell carried out a similar maneuver with respect to Shell Canada, also buying shares and applying a global business model.

• Australia

In May 2010, Royal Dutch Shell accepted final decision about financing the project of the first floating platform, engaged in the production of liquefied natural gas, after the discovery of the Prelude offshore field in the northwestern coast of Australia and containing, according to various estimates, about 850 billion m 3 of natural gas.

In February 2014, Shell sold its Australian refineries and filling stations to Vitol for $2.6 billion. However, Shell is expected to continue to invest in projects in Australia with Chevron Corporation and Woodside Petroleum.