Royal Dutch Shell plc is a multinational oil company of British and
Dutch origins. It is one of the largest private
sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" (vertically integrated private sector oil exploration, natural gas, and petroleum product marketing companies). The company's
headquarters are in The Hague, Netherlands, with its
registered office in London, United Kingdom
(Shell Centre).[1]
The company's main business is the exploration for and the production, processing, transportation and marketing of
hydrocarbons (oil and gas). Shell also has a significant petrochemicals business (Shell Chemicals), and an embryonic
renewable energy sector developing wind,
hydrogen and solar power opportunities. Shell is
incorporated in the UK with its corporate headquarters in The Hague, its tax residence is in Netherlands, and its primary
listings on the London Stock Exchange and Euronext Amsterdam (only "A" shares are part of the AEX index).
Shell's revenues of $318.8 billion in 2006 made it the third-largest corporation in the world by revenues behind only
ExxonMobil and Wal-Mart. Its 2006 gross profits of $26
billion made it the world's second most profitable company, after ExxonMobil and before BP.
Forbes Global 2000 in 2007 ranked Shell the eighth largest company in the world.
It operates in over 140 countries. In the United States, its Shell Oil Company subsidiary, headquartered in Houston, Texas,
is one of Shell's largest businesses. In 2007, Fortune magazine ranked Shell as the third-largest corporation in the world,
behind Wal-Mart and ExxonMobil.
History
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies was created in February 1907 when the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (legal name in
Dutch, N.V. Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij) and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd of the
United Kingdom merged their operations – a move largely driven by the need to compete
globally with the then monopolistic American oil company, Standard Oil. The terms of the
merger gave 60% of the new Group to the Dutch arm and 40% to the British. To celebrate its centenary in 2007 Shell launched a
scholarship fund.[2]
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company was a Dutch company founded in 1890 by Jean Baptiste August Kessler, along with Henri Deterding and
Hugo Loudon, when a Royal charter was granted by Dutch king Willem III to a small oil exploration company known as "Royal Dutch Company for the
Exploration of Petroleum Wells in the Dutch Indies".
The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company (the quotation marks are official) was a British company, founded in 1897 by
Marcus Samuel and his brother Samuel Samuel.
In 1919, Shell took control of the Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company and in 1921 formed Shell-Mex Limited which marketed
products under the "Shell" and "Eagle" brands in the United Kingdom. In 1931, partly in
response to the difficult economic conditions of the times, Shell-Mex merged its UK marketing operations with those of
British Petroleum to create Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, a company
that traded until the brands separated in 1975.
In November 2004, following a period of turmoil caused by the revelation that Shell had been overstating its oil reserves, it was announced that the Shell Group would move to a single capital structure, creating a
new parent company to be named Royal Dutch Shell plc, with its principal listing on the London Stock Exchange and the Amsterdam Stock
Exchange and its headquarters in The Hague in the Netherlands. The unification was
completed on 20 July 2005. Shares were issued at a 60/40 advantage
for the shareholders of Royal Dutch in line with the original ownership of the Shell Group.
Under the old capital structure, Shell's ADRs were traded on the
New York Stock Exchange under RD (Royal Dutch) and SC (Shell).
Origin of the Shell name and branding
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A Shell service station's price board with the pecten
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The origin of the brand name Shell is linked to the origins of The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company[3]. In 1833, the founder's father, also Marcus Samuel, founded an import business to sell seashells to London collectors. When collecting seashell
specimens in the Caspian Sea area in 1892, the younger
Samuel realized there was potential in exporting lamp oil from the region and commissioned the world's first purpose-built
oil tanker, the Murex, to enter this market; by 1907 the company had a fleet.
The Shell brand is one of the most familiar commercial symbols in the world. Known as the
"pecten" after the sea shell, the giant scallop, pecten maximus, on which its design is
based, the current version of the brand was designed by Raymond Loewy and introduced in
1971.
Businesses
One of the original Seven Sisters, Royal Dutch/Shell is the world's
second-largest private sector oil company by revenue, Europe's largest energy group and a major player in the petrochemical
industry.
Core businesses
The
upstream provides two thirds of Shell's revenues
Shell has five core businesses: Exploration and Production (the "upstream"),
Gas and Power, Refining and Marketing, Chemicals (the "downstream"), and
Trading/Shipping, and operates in more than 140 countries.
Shell's primary business is the management of a vertically integrated oil
company. The development of technical and commercial expertise in all the stages of this vertical integration from the initial
search for oil (exploration) through its harvesting (production), transportation, refining and finally trading and marketing
established the core competencies on which the Group was founded. Similar competencies were required for natural gas, which has become one of the most important businesses in which Shell is involved, and which
contributes a significant proportion of the company's profits.
While in the past the vertically integrated business model gave significant
economies of scale and provided Shell with the opportunity to establish
barriers to entry both geographically and on a more global scale, this has been less a
possibility in more recent times. As a result although the vertical integration
remains there is much less interdependence between the businesses and each is now
charged with being a self-supporting independent business without cross subsidies from other parts of the business chain.
Shell's oil and gas business is increasingly an assembly of independent and globally managed business segments each of which
must be profitable in its own right. This can be a source of criticism, as some consumers see huge profits accruing from upstream
income whilst price rises instituted by the independent downstream business anger motorists and other consumers.
The downstream, which now also includes the Chemicals business, generates a third of Shell's profits worldwide and is most
recognised by its global networks of more than 40,000 petrol stations and its 47
Oil refineries.
Chemicals
The chemicals business, involving the production and marketing of a range of
hydrocarbon-derived chemical products, was a logical step downstream from the processing of
crude oil in the refinery. Some of the chemicals diversifications, e.g. agrichemicals, have
been disposed of following major restructuring in Shell Chemicals over the past ten
years, but there is still a large core chemicals business within the company. Shell is currently building the world's largest
gas to liquids plant, converting natural gas to diesel and other products, in
Qatar.
Diversification
Over the years Shell has occasionally sought to diversify away from its core oil, gas and chemicals businesses. These
diversifications have included nuclear power (a short-lived and costly joint venture with
Gulf Oil in the USA); coal (Shell Coal was for a time a
significant player in mining and marketing); metals (Shell acquired the Dutch metals-mining company Billiton in 1970) and electricity generation (a joint
venture with Bechtel called Intergen). None of these ventures were seen as successful and all
have now been divested.
In recent years Shell has moved tentatively into alternative energy and there is
now an embryonic "Renewables" business which 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. Shell is, however, one of the world's largest investors in several renewables fields,
such as solar[4] and wind.[5] In 2004, Shell ranked fourth worldwide in terms of sales of solar
products.[6]
Shell is also one of the world's largest investors in wind energy - Shell WindEnergy is to have a major share in the world's
largest wind farm, the London Array (1GW).[5] The company's partnership in the USA with Nedpower Mt Storm wind power
project has proceeded less well, however, with delays, cost overruns and legal challenges.[citation needed]
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".[7]
Business priorities
Shell's principal focus remains on its core business activities. The strategy is described as "more upstream and profitable
downstream".[8] Capital investments in 2006 totalled
$24.896 billion of which just $418 million (less than 2%) was in businesses (including Renewables) other than the core Oil, Gas
and Chemicals sectors.[9]
Ownership
Prior to unification on 20 July 2005, the group was a
dual listed company. The two holding companies were the Royal Dutch Petroleum
Company of the Netherlands and the Shell Transport and Trading Company plc of the
United Kingdom. These two companies jointly owned all the operating companies in the
group, although some also have local shareholders and are traded on local stock markets. The Shell interest in subsidiaries was
always divided 60/40 in favour of Royal Dutch. In many cases, subsidiary companies are held in partnership with other companies
or governments.
The company's shares are divided into two classes, A and B, representing the former Royal Dutch and Shell shares respectively.
This arrangement is probably for tax reasons.[vague]
Although to meet company law in all countries, there were executive and non-executive nominated directors of both Royal Dutch
and Shell Transport and Trading, the Group had in fact been run by an executive body called the "Committee of Managing Directors"
(CMD), whose members were the (executive) Managing Directors of the two parent companies.
Management
Executive committee
Shell's executive committee consists of:
- Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive
- Linda Cook, Executive Director Gas and Power
- Malcolm Brinded, Executive Director Exploration and Production
- Peter Voser, Chief Financial Officer
- Rob Routs, Executive Director Downstream Oil Products and Chemicals
In March 2007 it was announced that Mr. van der Veer's contract as CEO would be extended to June 2009, some twenty months
beyond his normal Shell retirement date of October 2007[10]. He will be the first modern executive director of Shell
to stay in office beyond the age of 60.[original research?]
Non Executive Directors
On 4 August 2005, the board of directors of Royal Dutch Shell
plc announced the appointment of Jorma Ollila, then Chairman and CEO of Nokia, to succeed Aad Jacobs as the company’s non-executive Chairman from 1 June
2006. Ollila is the first Shell Chairman to be neither Dutch nor British.
Other non-executive directors include Maarten van den Bergh, Wim Kok, Nina Henderson, Lord Kerr and Christine
Morin-Postel.
Financial Data
Financial data in millions of US$
| Year |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
| Sales |
179 315 |
201 728 |
265 190 |
306 731 |
318 845 |
| EBITDA |
26 941 |
33 211 |
44 866 |
55 590 |
59 820 |
| Net Results |
9 656 |
12 313 |
18 183 |
25 311 |
26 311 |
| Net Debt |
19 691 |
20 127 |
14 422 |
12 900 |
6 800 |
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The risks attached to much of the business operations of energy/oil companies, such as Shell, are that their operations are
subject to particular scrutiny by stakeholders – especially environmental and human rights
groups and local communities. Over the years, Shell has been criticised in respect of a number of its operations. These have
included its businesses in South Africa and Nigeria (especially in relation to public unrest of the Ogoni and the execution of Ken
Saro-Wiwa[citation needed]) as well as its attitude to the environment (e.g. the disposal of the
Brent Spar production platform in Britain[citation needed]).
Shell's response to the problems of Brent Spar and Nigeria was to launch an internal review of processes and an external
communications campaign to persuade stakeholders of their commitment to corporate social responsibility. In response to criticism of its track record on
environmental matters Shell published an unequivocal commitment to sustainable
development, supported by executive speeches reinforcing this commitment[11]. At the same time Shell Oil (the US subsidiary) was one of the first companies to leave the
Global Climate Coalition, and the Group itself was never a member [1]. Shell Chairman
Philip Watts gave a 2003 speech in Houston calling
for skeptics to get off the fence and take action "before it is too late".[12] Shell is also a founding member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, which Watts led
as Chairman in 2002/2003.
Delivering the annual business lecture hosted by Greenpeace in 2005, Shell chairman Lord
Oxburgh said that we must act now on global warming or face a "disaster", and encouraged governments to provide a regulatory
framework to encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Our job is to respond in a positive way to a regulatory environment that has to be
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Shell's compliance to corporate social responsibility also includes its LiveWIRE programme. This initiative has over 21 years
experience of encouraging young people to start and develop their own businesses in the UK and elsewhere in the world (26
countries).[14]
Shell whistleblowers
Official website for whistleblowers: Shell has said that it is committed to listening to stakeholders[citation needed] This included the setting up of a
global Internet-based facility for whistleblowers to report alleged violations of the law
or of Shell General Business Principles, a voluntary code of ethics pledging
transparency, integrity and honesty in all of Shell's business dealings.[15] The introduction on the Global Helpline website says "Reporting and addressing suspected violations of the law or
the Shell General Business Principles (SGBP) is of critical importance in protecting our reputation and the value of the Shell
brand." Whistleblowers are asked to provide identity details but anonymous reports are
also accepted. The Global Helpline operated by Global Compliance, Inc. is available to "customers, suppliers, partners,
advisers and employees of Shell".[citation needed]
Information from a document downloadable from the Helpline website via the link "Notice about the Shell Global
Helpline", indicates that the Global Helpline was introduced as a way for "employees and others to raise concerns or
dilemmas, or to seek advice on a matter related to compliance with the law and our ethical standards, in full confidence and
without fear of retaliation."
Allegations which can be reported include infringement of antitrust or competition law; acts of bribery and corruption;
conflict of interest; money laundering; health, safety, security and environment issues; equal opportunity, harassment, substance
abuse; sanctions breaking; improper use of intellectual property or IT resources; infringement of data privacy and "theft,
fraud, forgery and the abuse of assets".
The same document warns that "misuse of the system to make a false allegation maliciously will not be tolerated and may
result in disciplinary action. Attempts to trace an anonymous reporter may be made in these circumstances."
A regional case manager assesses the information reported by a whistleblower and determines the appropriate action to be
taken. At the conclusion of an investigation, the local Shell operating company "will decide on what action or actions should
result in the event that an allegation has been found to be true."
Unofficial website for whistleblowers: Whistleblowers can alternatively use what has been described by Reuters as "an unofficial company Web site", royaldutchshellplc.com. An
article published by Reuters on 4 September 2007 referred to the non-commercial website "...as a conduit for whistleblowers at
the company..." An article published the same day by UpstreamOnline reported in a reference to the same website: "An executive of Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell working on
Kashagan, a project under pressure from the Kazakh
government for being overbudget and behind schedule, has quit, company sources told a website that monitors the company."
An article
in the February 2007 edition of Prospect Magazine reported "...unhappy Shell
insiders frequently post on the site’s live chat facility." The article went on to say: "Understandably, the company is
worried about the information that leaks on to the website: Donovan says that it has taken out injunctions to stop at least one
of its disgruntled geologists from posting on the site. He also says that his site and its whistleblowing insiders were well
ahead of the pack on Shell’s reserves scandal of 2003-04, when the company inflated its oil and gas reserves by some 20 per
cent."
On Friday 22 June 2007, The Moscow Times published a front page story with
the headline: "Sakhalin Energy's Greer Steps Down". The article revealed "A motivational e-mail written by Greer to
staff working on the project, originally leaked to an anti-Shell web site, Royaldutchshellplc.com, was the subject of a
front-page story in the Financial Times earlier this month." It went on to say "David Greer, the Sakhalin Energy deputy
CEO running the giant Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project, has left the company unexpectedly just weeks after a leaked e-mail he wrote
revealed the pressure that managers working there were facing". A Daily Mail article on 1 September 2007 said "The Royaldutchshellplc.com site has served as a forum for
disgruntled current and ex-employees and campaigners."
An article published by the Sunday Telegraph newspaper on 9 September 2007, under
the headline of "Online Revolutionaries" referring to the website owners, "Alfred Donovan, now in his 90s, and his son
John" said: "Their site became a hub for activists and disgruntled former employees." It went on to say "It has
been used to mobilise support... by the company’s former group auditor Bill Campbell to raise
issues about employee safety." An article published on the Prospect Magazine
website on 12 September 2007 said: "As journalists and disgruntled employees have realised, if you want to know what’s up at
one of the world’s biggest companies... start with www.royaldutchshellplc.com." An "Accountability in Action" newsletter published in July 2007
by the One World Trust, an independent research organisation associated with the UK
legislature and the United Nations, said: "The
site has played a watchdog function on the activities of Shell, and has acted as a central point for the gathering of
complaints." It went on to say: "The site has not only cost Shell billions of dollars in Russia... "even Shell insiders
unhappy with the company use it".
Corporate communications
Much of Shell's reputation-building advertising concentrated on the embryonic renewable
energy business despite the fact that this remains a very small business compared to the core hydrocarbon extraction,
processing and marketing operations. The corporate advertising campaign was (like a similar campaign by BP) described as "greenwash" by some non-governmental organization critics,[16] but praised by other commentators[17]. In response to questions which focused on the small percentage of its capital investment programme
that was directed towards alternative energy Shell said that it would be "pointless"
to say exactly how much of capital expenditure was going into renewable energy schemes. Chief Executive Officer Jeroen van der Veer indicated that the investment in renewables was small, saying it would be
"throwing money away" to invest in alternative energy projects that were noncommercial and people could not afford to
buy.[18]
Oil reserves
Shortly after Shell's well-funded initiatives designed to enhance its reputation with key stakeholders there came, in 2004, a
disclosure about the overstatement of oil reserves which was seen as the most serious crisis encountered in the Group’s nearly
100 years of history. This crisis led to respected publications such as The
Economist asking in an article dated 11 March 2004 whether Shell could be seen as "another Enron". Berger &
Montague, an American law firm then suing Shell said that an "enormous" deception had harmed shareholders and "severely
overstated" the firm's market value "recklessly violated accounting rules and guidelines, which resulted in an enormous and
shocking overstatement of oil and gas reserves."[19] The
crisis led to the dismissal of the chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors Philip
Watts, and prompted a major reorganisation of the Group.
Other recent problems
Royal Dutch Shell's image suffered another blow when problems arose with the massive Sakhalin-II project in Russia and the controversial Corrib Gas Field development in Ireland. Shell's social investment
initiative the Shell Foundation has also run into some controversy. In 2007
Friends of the Earth alleged that the damage caused by Shell's oil activities to
local communities and the wider environment could be assessed at $20 billion[20].
Health and safety
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A number of incidents over the years led to criticism of Shell's health and
safety record, including repeated warnings by the UK Health and Safety Executive about the poor state of the company's
North Sea platforms.
Combination of Royal Dutch and Shell
Shell Research and Technology Centre,
Amsterdam
On 28 October 2004, the company announced its proposal to
merge Royal Dutch and "Shell" Transport and Trading into one entity, Royal Dutch Shell plc, to be "incorporated in the UK but
headquartered and tax resident in the Netherlands". On 28 June 2005 investors in both Shell Transport and Trading and Royal Dutch approved, at their Annual General Meetings,
plans to merge the Group's dual-ownership structure and create a single company worth £120bn ($219bn). The new company's primary
listing is on the London Stock Exchange and it employs around 122,000 people in
140 countries.[21]
This type of business structure was not legally possible in 1907 when the Group was established, and the unique form of
organisation that was then adopted by Shell, although durable, had come under criticism in recent years. Some critics thought
that as the two parent companies had separate boards, with separate memberships, this meant that there was a certain amount of
(undesirable) independence of each of the companies from the other. Others felt that the real power in Shell lay not with the two
parent company boards at all but with the Committee of Managing Directors, which had no legal status but nevertheless took all
the key operational decisions. The new organisation structure follows a more conventional business model in line with most other
private sector oil companies and most commentators have commented favourably on the change, which they believe will establish a
more transparent and accountable corporation. The Committee of Managing Directors is abolished under this new structure; board
meetings will be more executive in character, and there will only be one Shell Annual General Meeting each year.
Corporate governance
Traditionally, Shell was a heavily decentralised business worldwide (especially in the downstream) with operating companies in
over 100 countries each of which operated with a high degree of independence. The upstream tended to be far more centralised with
much of the detailed technical and financial direction coming from the central offices in The
Hague. Nevertheless there were very large "Exploration and Production" companies in a small number of major oil and gas
production centres such as the United Kingdom (Shell Expro, a Joint Venture with
Exxon), Nigeria, Brunei, Oman etc.
The downstream business, which in some countries also included oil refining, generally
included a retail petrol station network, lubricants manufacture and marketing,
industrial fuel and lubricants sales and a host of other product/market sectors such as LPG,
bitumen etc. The custom and practice in Shell was that these businesses were essentially local
in character and that they were best managed by local "operating companies" – often with middle and senior management reinforced
by expatriates. In the 1990s this paradigm began to change and the independence of operating
companies around the world was gradually reduced and today virtually all of Shell’s operations in all of its various businesses
are much more directly managed from London and The Hague. The autonomy of “operating companies” has been largely removed as more
"global businesses" have been created in all sectors. London is the headquarters of the downstream and other businesses and services whilst the management of the upstream business is the primary activity in the offices in The Hague.
United States and Canada
Through most of Shell's history, its business in the United States Shell Oil
Company was substantially independent with its stock ("Shell Oil") being traded on the NYSE and with little direct involvement from the Group’s central offices in the running of the
American business. This also changed in the 1990s when Shell firstly bought out the shares in Shell Oil that they did not own and
then took a more hands on approach in the running of the business. In Canada, also hitherto very independent, Shell has completed
its purchase of the shares in Shell Canada that it did not own in order to apply the new
global business model to its Canadian operations.
Australia
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In Australia, retailer Coles Group (then Coles Myer)
purchased the rights to the business from the existing Shell Australia multi-site
franchisees in 2003 for an amount less than A$100 million. This was in response to a
popular discount fuel offer by rival Woolworths Limited launched some years
earlier.
Coles Express' only affiliation with Shell is that Shell is the exclusive supplier of fuel and lubricant products, leases the
service station property to Coles, and maintains the presence of the "pecten" and other Shell branding on the price board and
other signage. Coles Express sets fuel and shop prices and runs the business, provides convenience and grocery merchandise
through its supply chain and distribution network, and directly employs the service station staff.
Norway, Sweden and Denmark
On 27 August 2007, Royal Dutch Shell and Reitan Group, the owner of the 7-Eleven brand in Scandinavia, announced an agreement to rebrand some 269 service stations across Norway, Sweden and Denmark,
subject to obtaining regulatory approvals under the different competition laws in each country.[22]
Profit announcement
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On 2 February 2006 Shell released details of its 2005
financial performance. Profits broke the record for the greatest annual profit for a British (or Dutch) company, with a total of
$26.261 billion, up by a third from the previous year. Some critics of Shell charged that the rise in profits was directly
attributable to increases in pump prices of petrol and diesel accusing Shell of profiteering at the expense of motorists. In fact
the profits of Shell and other oil majors are always, in the short term, linked in a linear
way to changes in the price of crude oil. When prices rise, the upstream (production) margin
increases. The downstream (refining and marketing) margin is largely insensitive to the actual price level.[23]
Merger speculation
While other multinational oil companies indulged in mega-mergers in the late
1990s and early 2000s (BP with Amoco; Exxon with Mobil; Chevron with Texaco; Total with Elf and Petrofina) Shell stayed out of the fray. There has, however, continued to be speculation that merger/takeover
opportunities have been under consideration at the top of Shell. The most favoured idea by some commentators is a major merger
with BP which would create the world's largest company.[24] Another oft-mooted option would be for Shell to take over the BG Group[25] – something that was close
to happening in the 1990s[26].
See also
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