Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted JP (5 November 1853 – 17 January 1927), known in later life as Sir Marcus Samuel, Bt between 1903 and 1921 and subsequently as The Lord Bearsted until 1925, was the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which was later restructured including a Holland-based company commonly referred to as Royal Dutch Shell.

·         Oil and gas

·         Royal Dutch Petroleum (1890)

·         "Shell" Transport and Trading (1897)

·         February 1907; 109 years ago

·         The Hague, Netherlands

                           (Headquarters)

·         Shell Centre, London, United Kingdom

                           (Registered office)

·         Worldwide

·         Charles O. Holliday (Chairman)

·         Ben van Beurden (CEO)

·         Petroleum, Natural gas, and other petrochemicals

Revenue              

·         Decrease US$ 264.96 billion (2015)[1]

·         Decrease US$ -3.261 billion (2015)[1]

·         Decrease US$ 1.939 billion (2015)[1]

Total assets 

·         Decrease US$ 340.15 billion (2015)[1]

Total equity 

·         Decrease US$ 162.87 billion (2015)[1]

·         94,000 (2015)[1]

Subsidiaries 

·         Shell Australia

·         Shell South Africa

·         Shell Canada

·         Shell Chemicals

·         Shell Gas & Power

·         Shell Hong Kong

·         Shell Nigeria

·         Shell Oil Company

·         Shell Pakistan

·         www.shell.com

 

Upstream activities currently generate around two-thirds of Shell's revenues

Shell is currently organised into four major business groupings:

Upstream International – manages the upstream business outside the Americas. It searches for and recovers crude oil and natural gas, liquefies and transports gas, and operates the upstream and midstream infrastructure necessary to deliver oil and gas to the market. Its activities are organised primarily within geographic units, although there are some activities that are managed across the business or provided through support units.

Upstream Americas – manages the upstream business in North and South America. It searches for and recovers crude oil and natural gas, transports gas and operates the upstream and midstream infrastructure necessary to deliver oil and gas to market. Upstream Americas also extracts bitumen from oil sands that is converted into synthetic crude oil. It comprises operations organised into business-wide managed activities and supporting activities.

Downstream – manages Shell's manufacturing, distribution and marketing activities for oil products and chemicals. Manufacturing and supply includes refinery, supply and shipping of crude oil.

Projects and technology – manages the delivery of Shell's major projects, provides technical services and technology capability covering both upstream and downstream activities. It is also responsible for providing functional leadership across Shell in the areas of health, safety and environment, and contracting and procurement

Shell has sponsored motorsport activities for decades, most notably Scuderia Ferrari (1951-1964, 1966-1973 and 1996-present,), BRM (1962-1966 and 1968-1972), Scuderia Toro Rosso (2007-2013 and 2016), McLaren (1967-1968 and 1984-1994), Lotus (1968-1971), Team Penske (2011–present), Hyundai Motorsport (since 2005), AF Corse, Risi Competizione and Dick Johnson Racing (1987-2004).

 

In the early 2000s Shell moved into alternative energy and there is now an embryonic "Renewables" business that has made investments in solar power, wind power, hydrogen, and forestry. The forestry business went the way of nuclear, coal, metals and electricity generation, and was disposed of in 2003. In 2006 Shell paid SolarWorld to take over its entire solar business and in 2008, the company withdrew from the London Array which has become the world's largest offshore wind farm.

 

Shell also is involved in large-scale hydrogen projects. HydrogenForecast.com describes Shell's approach thus far as consisting of "baby steps", but with an underlying message of "extreme optimism".

 

Shell holds 50% of Raízen, a joint venture with Brazilian sugarcane producer Cosan which is the third-largest Brazil-based energy company by revenues and a major producer of ethanol.

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