ABOUT SHELL

With approximately 102,000 employees in more than 100 countries and territories, Shell helps to meet the world’s growing demand for energy, aiming to do so in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways.

UPSTREAM

Our Exploration & Production business searches for and recovers oil and natural gas around the world. Many of these activities are carried out as joint ventures, often with national oil companies.

Our Gas & Power business liquefies natural gas and transports it to customers across the world. Its gas to liquids (GTL) process turns natural gas into cleaner-burning synthetic fuel and other products. It develops wind power to generate electricity and is involved in solar power technology. It also licenses our coal gasification technology, enabling coal to be used as a chemical feedstock and to generate electricity more efficiently.

DOWNSTREAM

Our Oil Products business makes, moves and sells a range of petroleum-based products around the world for domestic, industrial and transport use. With around 45,000 service stations, ours is the world’s largest single-branded fuel retail network. Its Future Fuels and CO2 business unit develops biofuels and hydrogen, and markets the synthetic fuel and products made from the GTL process. It also leads company-wide activities in CO2 management.

Our Chemicals business produces petrochemicals for industrial customers. Its products include the raw materials for plastics, coatings and detergents used in the manufacture of textiles, medical supplies and computers.

Our Oil Sands business, the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, extracts bitumen – an especially thick, heavy oil – from oil sands in Alberta, western Canada, and converts it to synthetic crude oils that can be turned into a range of products.