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Industry Areas: Oil and gas exploration and production, refining/marketing and supply of petroleum products, manufacturing and marketing of Chemicals.
Overview
The Royal-Dutch/Shell groups of companies is an Anglo-Dutch group, the holding companies who own the group being The Shell Transport and Trading Company PLC (UK) and Koninklijke Nederland (Royal Dutch Petroleum Company: Netherlands). These two holding companies own 40 per-cent and 60 per-cent respectively of the following 3 subsidiaries, which are themselves holding companies for further operating subsidiaries:
o Shell Petroleum NV (Netherlands)
o Shell Petroleum Company LTD (UK)
o Shell Petroleum Inc. (USA)
The three companies and their operating subsidiaries are managed worldwide by Shell International. Operating subsidiaries are divided into the following divisions:
o Exploration & Production
o Oil products
o Chemicals
o Gas & Power
(Other small divisions include Coal, Hydrogen, Forestry and Renewables)
Over recent years Shell has successfully come to be seen as one of the more progressive companies within its sector. Since it withdrew from the Global Climate Coalition (lobby group) in 1998[1]. Shell has tried hard to brand itself as a caring, green company. Even before that, a concerted public relations campaign had followed the execution (in November 1995) of Nigerian writer and campaigner Ken Saro Wiwa[2]. Shell portrays itself as a good corporate citizen, but like all multinationals and all oil companies Royal-Dutch/Shell continues, behind the greenwash, with many of it ...