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Shell at a glance
As one of the world’s leading energy companies Shell plays a key role in helping to meet the world’s growing energy demand in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways.
Shell in Ireland
The history of Shell in Ireland dates back almost a hundred years when the company set up its first headquarters in Ireland at Alexandra Road, Dublin. We now operate from our offices in Corrib House, 52 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2.
Our values
Our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people form the basis of the Shell General Business Principles.
Our business activities in Ireland
The exploration and production business and, specifically, the development of the Corrib natural gas project, is a key part of Shell’s operations in Ireland. Shell's other businesses in Ireland – aviation fuel and chemicals.
In July 2005, Shell announced that it had signed sale and purchase agreements with Topaz Distribution and Logistics for the divestment of the majority of Shell’s oil products businesses in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The agreements relate to Shell’s retail, commercial fuels, lubricants, marine, and supply and distribution businesses.
The divestment of the oil products business is consistent with Shell’s international strategy of ‘more upstream businesses and profitable downstream businesses’.
Shell Exploration & Production
Shell E&P Ireland Limited is part of Shell’s E&P Europe organisation, which has extensive experience in operating sub sea developments and has safely operated major onshore and offshore gas fields in Europe since the 1960’s.
Exploration and Production activities in Ireland
Corrib gas project
Aviation
Shell is the world leader in the marketing of aviation fuel and in the operation of airport fuelling facilities. But we're much more than a huge worldwide supplier - we have a tremendous breadth and depth of knowledge on everything from formulating better fuels and lubricants to designing and managing cost-effective installations.
Learn more about our aviation business in Ireland
Chemicals
With a collective multi-billion dollar turnover and major manufacturing facilities around the world, the companies that make up Shell Chemicals number among the world's largest petrochemical operations.
Sales operations in Ireland are co-ordinated from our Customer Service Centre, Tel: +353 185 020 0572.
For more detailed information on Shell Chemicals and our full product range visit our global website at www.shell.com/chemicals.Shell worldwide
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. Our headquarters are in The Hague, the Netherlands, and our Chief Executive Officer is Peter Voser. The parent company of the Shell group is Royal Dutch Shell plc, which is incorporated in England and Wales.
Our strategy seeks to reinforce our position as a leader in the oil and gas industry in order to provide a competitive shareholder return while helping to meet global energy demand in a responsible way.
In Upstream we focus on exploring for new oil and gas reserves and developing major projects where our technology and know-how adds value to the resource holders.
In Downstream our emphasis remains on sustained cash generation from our existing assets and selective investments in growth markets.
Read more about our strategy and major projects
Our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people form the basis of the Shell General Business Principles.
Shell Worldwide by numbers:- + 90 countries where we operate
- ~101,000 number of employees
- 2% amount of world’s oil we produce
- 3% amount of world’s gas we produce
- 3.1 million barrels of gas and oil we produce every day
- 44,000 Shell service stations worldwide
- 145 billion litres of fuel sold
- >35 refineries and chemical plants we run (figures for 2009)
- 1 ranking by Fortune 500 in 2009
Our business
Upstream searches for and recovers crude oil and natural gas.
Downstream refines, supplies, trades and ships crude worldwide, manufactures and markets a range of products, and produces petrochemicals for industrial customers.
Projects & Technology manages delivery of Shell’s major projects and drives the research and innovation to create technology solutions.
Financial performance
Visit our Investor Centre to view our latest quarterly results
2009- Revenue: $278.2 billion
- Income: $12.7 billion
- Capital investment: $31.7 billion
- Investment in research and development: over $1.2 billion
Fast facts for sustainable development
- $1.7 billion spent on CO2 and renewable energy technologies over the last 5 years.
- In 2008 greenhouse gas emissions from facilities where we operate were approximately 30% below 1990 levels.
- $19 billion spent in 2008 with locally owned companies in low and middle income countries.
- $148 million on social investment programmes in 2008.
