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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.
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
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 has been exploring for and producing oil and gas for more than a century. We employ around 102,000 people in more than 100 countries and territories. Our headquarters are in The Hague, the Netherlands, and Peter Voser is our Chief Executive Officer. The parent company of the Shell group is Royal Dutch Shell plc, which is incorporated in England and Wales.
Our strategy and priorities for the future are "more upstream and profitable downstream".
Read more about our strategy and major projects on our corporate website (in English)
Shell worldwide by numbers
- 2%: amount of world’s oil we produce
- 3%: amount of world’s gas we produce
- 3.2 million: barrels of gas and oil we produce every day
- 45,000: Shell service stations worldwide
- 10 million customers: buy our transport fuel
- +25: refineries and chemical plants we run (figures for 2008)
- 1: ranking by Fortune 500 in 2009
Businesses
- Upstream Americas searches for and recovers oil and natural gas across the Americas.
- Upstream International searches for and recovers oil and natural gas outside the Americas.
- 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, as well as driving the research and innovation to create technology solutions.
2008 Financial performance
- Revenue: $458.4 billion
- Income: $26.5 billion
- Capital investment: $38.4 billion
- Investment in research and development: over $1.2 billion (more than any other oil major)
Visit our Investor Centre to view our latest quarterly results (in English)
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.
