Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. Its headquarters are in The Hague, the Netherlands. It was founded in 1907. The parent company of the Shell group is Royal Dutch Shell plc, which is incorporated in England and Wales. They have around 93,000 employees in more than 90 countries and territories. The company has worldwide proved reserves of 14.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent. The company operates 43,000 gas stations (the world's largest retail fuel network). Shell produces refined products and chemicals at 30 refineries, transports natural gas, trades gas and electricity, and develops renewable energy sources. Shell helps to meet the world's growing demand for energy in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways.
Shell Oil Company is the United States-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company ("oil major") of Anglo Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world. Approximately 22,000 Shell employees are based in the U.S. The head office in the U.S. is in Houston, Texas. Shell Oil Company, including its consolidated companies and its share in equity companies, is one of America’s largest oil and natural gas producers, natural gas marketers, gasoline marketers and petrochemical manufacturers.
Shell is the market leader through approximately 25,000 Shell-branded gas stations in the US which also serve as Shell's most visible public presence. Shell Oil Company is a 50/50 partner with the Saudi Arabian government-owned oil company Saudi Aramco in Motiva Enterprises, a refining and marketing joint venture which owns and operates three oil refineries on the Gulf Coast of the United States. It also holds 80% of an exploration firm called Pecten that explores and drills in various offshore locations including the oil basin near Douala, Cameroon in cooperation with the French government-owned Elf Aquitaine
Shell has five core businesses: * Exploration and