- CEO
- Wael Sawan
- Full Time Employees
- 96,000
- Sector
- Energy
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Integrated
- Address
- Shell Centre, 2 York Road London United Kingdom SE1 7NA
- IPO Date
- Jul 20, 2005
- Business
- Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and founded in 1907 through the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and The Shell Transport and Trading Company. The company operates as a vertically integrated energy major with activities spanning exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas; refining and petrochemicals including ethylene crackers, linear alpha olefins, polycarbonates, and carbonate solvents; liquefied natural gas liquefaction, gas-to-liquids conversion, and low-carbon fuels; marketing through approximately 44,000 service stations worldwide; lubricants under brands such as Pennzoil and Quaker State; power generation; sustainable aviation fuels; bitumen and LPG; and trading, with significant operations in over 99 countries across Upstream, Integrated Gas and New Energies, Downstream, and Projects and Technology segments targeting industrial, retail, aviation, marine, and power sector customers primarily in Europe, the United States, Asia, Oceania, Africa, and other Americas. Recent developments include the completion of its acquisition of additional working interest in the Ursa platform in the US Gulf of Mexico in May 2025 increasing its stake from 45% to 61%; increased interest in Nigeria's deep-water Bonga field in November 2025; expansion of the CSPC joint venture with CNOOC in China via a final investment decision for a third ethylene cracker with 1.6 million tonnes per year capacity plus downstream derivatives and 320,000 tonnes per year of specialty chemicals expected by 2028; and strengthened positions in Brazilian pre-salt oil fields through partnerships with Petrobras, alongside ongoing strategic focus on profitable carbon-competitive assets and integrated value chains.