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extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas

Shell

Shell plc

Headquarters: London
Founded: 1890
Employees: 90,000

Official website

Photo: Reading Tom from Reading, UK · CC BY 2.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

138,456

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Shell is

Full article ↗

Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company, headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange. A core component of Big Oil, Shell is the largest investor owned oil company in Europe, third largest globally behind ExxonMobil and Chevron, and among the world's largest companies out of any industry. Measured by both its own emissions, and the emissions of all the fossil fuels it sells, Shell was the ninth-largest corporate producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the period 1988–2015.

Shell was formed in April 1907 through the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom, with 60 percent of stock ownership under Royal Dutch. The merger was arranged by Calouste Gulbenkian, a British-Armenian oil magnate. The combined company rapidly became the leading competitor of the American Standard Oil and by 1920 Shell was the largest producer of oil in the world. Shell first entered the chemicals industry in 1929. Shell was one of the "Seven Sisters" which dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s. In 1964, Shell was a partner in the world's first commercial sea transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Origin

Who founded it

Shell was founded in 1890 by 2 named founders on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted

1853–1927

British entrepreneur and politician (1853-1927)

Photo: London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company · Public domain · file

Founder

Henri Deterding

1866–1939

Dutch entrepreneur, (1886-1939) chairman of the combined Royal Dutch/Shell oil company

Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · file

People

Leadership on record

Officers and directors as recorded in open reference data. This reflects the most recent statement in the source, not a filing date — check the company's own disclosures before relying on it.

Chief executive

Wael Sawan

1974

Lebanese Canadian chief executive

Photo: Chatham House · CC BY 2.0 · file

Board

Board member

Gerrit Zalm

1952

Dutch former politician

Photo: Roel from The Netherlands-Nederland · CC BY 2.0 · file

Board member

Nigel Sheinwald

1953

British diplomat

Photo: UK Foreign and Commonwealth OFfice · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Board member

Neil Carson

1957

businessperson

Board member

Andrew Mackenzie

1956

Scottish businessman

Photo: Royal Society uploader · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Board member

Euleen Goh

Chartered accountant who was with Standard Chartered Bank for some 21 years and became Standard Chartered Bank Singapore's CEO from 2001 to 2006

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: Shell plc
Industry: extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas
Legal form: public limited company
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: London
Formed in: —
Founded: 1890
Dissolved: —
Employees: 90,000
Listed on: London Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: GB00B03MM408
Legal Entity Identifier: 21380068P1DRHMJ8KU70
Head office coordinates: 51.5072, -0.1275

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 52.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1974
Newest vessel on record: 1974
Largest vessel by tonnage: 138,456
Average tonnage: 138,456
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Reported financials

Financial year 2023

All figures in USD

Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.

Revenue

317bn USD

Reported for 2023

Operating income

37.3bn USD

Reported for 2023

Net profit

19.6bn USD

Reported for 2023

Total assets

406bn USD

Reported for 2023

Total equity

188bn USD

Reported for 2023

Corporate structure

Ownership and holdings

Owned by

BlackRockThe Vanguard GroupNorges Bank Investment Management

Services and products

lithium grease

Subsidiaries and units (24)

Shell CanadaRhenania-OssagBataafse Petroleum MaatschappijShell USASalym Petroleum DevelopmentAera EnergyRaízenShell AircraftShell NigeriaShell PakistanShell Transport and Trading CompanyKoninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Petroleumbronnen in Nederlandsch-IndiëRoyal Dutch Shell Group of CompaniesMobil ParkBataafsche Import MaatschappijAnglo Saxon PetroleumShell Overseas Holdings LimitedDansk ShellShell U.K.Shell DeutschlandShell Czech RepublicShell Overseas InvestmentsLimejumpShell International Petroleum Company

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Shell. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Oil tanker1

By flag state

Netherlands1

By shipbuilder

Chantiers de l'Atlantique1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Latia	7360033	Oil tanker	Netherlands	1974	138,456	—	342.0 m	Chantiers de l'Atlantique

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Shell compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Shell is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which Shell ranks 38th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1890, Shell is 136 years old. This directory holds 43 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.