Shell

An international oil and gas corporation with its headquarters in London is called Shell plc. Shell is a publicly traded business with secondary listings on the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext Amsterdam in addition to its principal listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Shell, a key player in big oil, is among the largest corporations in the world across all industries and is the second-largest investor-owned oil and gas business in the world by revenue (behind ExxonMobil). Shell was the ninth-largest corporate emitter of greenhouse gases between 1988 and 2015, taking into account both its own emissions and the emissions of all the fossil fuels it sells.

The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom merged to establish Shell in 1907. By 1920, Shell was the biggest oil producer in the world, quickly overtaking American Standard Oil as the company's main rival. In 1929, Shell made its debut in the chemicals sector. From the middle of the 1940s through the middle of the 1970s, the "Seven Sisters" controlled the world's petroleum business. Shell was one of them. The first commercial marine transportation of LNG took place in 1964, with Shell as a partner. The mining business Billiton was purchased by Shell in 1970; it was later sold and is now a part of BHP. In recent years, gas has played a bigger role in Shell's business, and in 2016, Shell purchased BG Group.

Founded: April 1907
Headquarters: Shell Centre, London, England
Website: https://www.shell.com/