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Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell is a vertically integrated Anglo–Dutch multinational oil and gas company and is one of the biggest oil and gas groups in the world. It also has invested extensively in renewable energy.

Chairman / President

Andrew Mackenzie

CEO / Managing Director

Wael Sawan

CFO / Finance Director

Sinead Gorman

Industry

Energy

Website

shell.com

Headquarters address

Carel van Bylandtlaan 30, 2596 HR The Hague, Netherlands

Stock Code

LSE:RDSA, RDSB
NYSE:SHEL
Euronext Amsterdam:RDSA, RDSB

Year founded

1907

Singapore

Oil giant Shell shuts Singapore processing unit to probe leak

Shell estimates that a few tonnes of refined oil products, along with cooling water discharge used in the refining process, have leaked.

27 Dec 2024 - 7:58PMvideocam

Climate change

Opinion | Let’s get real, carbon capture is not the next big net-zero hope

7 Jul 2024 - 5:30AMvideocam

Singapore

Singapore to offer carbon tax rebates up to 76% for refiners, petro firms: sources

14 Jun 2024 - 6:00AM

Singapore

Oil giant Shell sells off Singapore refinery it built over 60 years ago

The sale of Shell’s assets in Singapore include the refinery on Bukom island, which opened in 1961, and a plant that produces mono-ethylene glycol on Jurong island.

8 May 2024 - 3:28PM

Boats sail past the Shell refinery on Pulau Bukom, or Bukom island, off Singapore. The facility opened in 1961. Photo: AFP

Business of climate change

Greenpeace accuses Chinese oil and gas firms of ‘greenwashing’ LNG purchases

Big oil and gas companies in China and elsewhere are using low-quality carbon offsets to ‘greenwash’ their imports of natural gas while failing to make strong emissions cutting commitments, Greenpeace says.

27 Nov 2023 - 11:29AMvideocam

United States

California sues oil giants for ‘lies and myths’ on climate, seeks funds

The state’s lawsuit seeks finance from ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and BP to pay for recovery after devastating storms and fires, while the companies say climate policy should be debated in Congress, not court.

18 Sep 2023 - 2:05AM

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud to work with Shell China on green, low carbon digital solutions

The two companies are becoming long-term strategic partners with the help of Shell’s advantage in energy transformation and Alibaba Cloud’s advantages in cloud computing.

23 Feb 2023 - 10:54PM

Alibaba Cloud to collaborate with Shell China. Photo: Shutterstock

Energy

Opec chief tells climate activists to ‘look at the big picture’

After ‘years of chronic underinvestment’, the oil industry needs US$500 billion of investment annually until 2045, said Opec’s secretary general.

12 Feb 2023 - 8:30PMvideocam

Business of climate change

Shell, Exxon join study to build China’s first major carbon storage project

Shell and ExxonMobil have signed an MoU with Guangdong government and China National Offshore Oil Corp to conduct a feasibility study for a carbon capture and storage project off the coast of Shenzhen.

28 Jun 2022 - 6:30PMvideocam

Electric & new energy vehicles

Shell to open Hong Kong’s first service station that will also offer EV charging

The local unit of European oil and gas giant Shell aims to open Hong Kong’s first service station with both electric vehicle charging and conventional fuel facilities, as it seeks to steal a march on competitors and capitalise on the rising use of EVs in the city.

11 May 2022 - 8:30AMvideocam

Shell’s service station offering EV charging and conventional fuel facilities will launch by June 30. Photo: Dickson Lee

Electric & new energy vehicles

BYD joins up with Shell to expand EV charging across China and Europe

The partnership will start in China and Europe, before extending to other regions across the globe.

24 Mar 2022 - 8:45PM

A “BYD Dolphin” electric vehicle is displayed at a store of the listed company BYD on December 25, 2021 in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province of China. Photo: Getty

Environment

Man who defeated oil giant Shell wins prize

Acting for Friends of the Earth, lawyer Roger Cox won a ruling against Shell last year requiring the energy giant to cut its carbon emissions by net 45 per cent by 2030.

12 Feb 2022 - 11:53PM

Climate change

Will global climate crisis actually herald the ‘end of oil’?

It’s no longer taboo for climate defenders to call for the end of crude oil extraction. But the world economy’s deep dependence on hydrocarbons isn’t going away any time soon.

26 Dec 2021 - 1:58PM

South Africa

Environmentalists protest in South Africa to oppose Shell oil exploration

Activists say Shell’s plans to search for oil and gas deposits off South Africa’s Wild Coast – a key tourist attraction – pose a danger to marine animals.

6 Dec 2021 - 12:42AM

A giant puppet of a snoek, a type of mackerel, is displayed as hundreds of people take part in a protest against Dutch oil company Shell at Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town, South Africa on Sunday. Photo: AFP

The View

The View | The China factor: why Russia is still betting big on oil

At a time when much of the West is planning an exit from fossil fuels, Russia is proceeding with an enormous oil project. One key reason is China, which doesn’t see a swift energy transition as a realistic path and could drive global oil demand in the medium term.

30 Jun 2021 - 9:15AMvideocam

Rail wagons for transporting oil stand in sidings at the RN-Tuapsinsky refinery operated by Rosneft in 2020. Rosneft, Russia’s biggest oil company, has started holding meetings with foreign contractors and suppliers for a massive Vostok Oil project. Photo: Bloomberg

The Netherlands

Shell ordered to cut carbon emissions in landmark climate case

A court in The Hague ordered the Anglo-Dutch multinational to reduce its CO2 output by 45 per cent by 2030 from 2019 levels.

26 May 2021 - 11:10PMvideocam

Energy

Energy firms shut 13 per cent of oil production as storms draw near

Storms Marco and Laura are poised to enter the Gulf early next week.

23 Aug 2020 - 4:11AM

Greater Bay Area

Sinomach to build US$28.6 billion smart industrial estate in Huizhou

China National Machinery Industry Corporation (Sinomach), the country’s largest industrial machinery company, has signed a framework agreement with the Huizhou municipal government to build a “world-class” industrial estate for modern equipment manufacturing.

16 Jul 2020 - 11:01PMvideocam

Huizhou is among nine mainland Chinese cities that together with Hong Kong and Macau form the Greater Bay Area. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong Consumer Council calls for review of city’s motor-fuel market

Study conducted by watchdog finds gap between retail and import prices of fuel has doubled over past seven years.

22 May 2020 - 3:16AM

Energy

Why does Hong Kong’s petrol pump price top the world? It has nothing to do with crude oil price?

Fuel retailers say there a range of factors for the delay in lower prices to be reflected at the pump, including high inventory levels, government tax, salaries and above all, land costs.

28 Apr 2020 - 1:12PMvideocam

IPO

Aramco IPO almost impossible as investors fear more attacks

Analysts now see a US$1.5 trillion valuation for Aramco as more realistic, down from US$2 trillion as desired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

16 Sep 2019 - 9:37PMvideocam

Fires burn in the distance after a drone strike by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group on Saudi company Aramco’s oil processing facilities, in Buqayq, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

Crime

‘Brazen’ theft at Shell’s Singapore refinery much bigger than reported

Court documents show US$150 million worth of gas oil was stolen from the company’s Pulau Bukom site

14 Dec 2018 - 7:54PM

Singapore

Singapore police arrest 17 men over heist at Shell oil refinery

9 Jan 2018 - 8:48PM

Shell makes early move on biodiesel launch in Hong Kong

Shell Hong Kong today becomes the first oil major in the city to commercially launch the 5 per cent biodiesel blend product.

1 Dec 2014 - 4:37AM

Shell’s new boss reinforces gas technology focus

10 Jul 2013 - 11:57AM

Royal Dutch Shell incoming chief executive Ben van Beurden has first-hand knowledge of the gas technology it has bet its future on. Photo: Reuters

EU oil pricing probe spurs lawsuit against BP, others

24 May 2013 - 11:44AM

BP, as well as Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil, could face a class action lawsuit. Photo: AP

Nigerian farmers lose key Shell case at The Hague

A Dutch court rejected a bid by Nigerian farmers to hold Shell responsible for oil damage to their villages, in a case that environmental groups had hoped would set a precedent for global corporate responsibility.

31 Jan 2013 - 6:55AM

Baidu

Briefs, October 17, 2012

17 Oct 2012 - 2:22AM

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