Shell
Shell
Our strategy and priorities for the future are "more upstream and profitable downstream."
Read 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.
Our 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.
Financial performance
2008
$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.
45% of our total oil and gas production in 2008 was natural gas, the cleanest-burning
fossil fuel.