Royal Dutch Shell
Other Business Names:
- Royal Dutch Petroleum Co
- Shell Transport & Trading Co Ltd
- Deterding, Sir Henri
- Samuel, Marcus
- Samuel, Samuel
- Eagle Petroleum Co Ltd
- Shell Mex Ltd
- Shell Mex & BP Ltd
- Royal Dutch Shell Plc
- Samuel, Marcus, & Co
- Asiatic Petroleum Co Ltd
- Shell Oil Co
- Shell Union Oil Corp
- Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Mexico
- Netherlands
Sectors:
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Chemical production
Basic chemicals production
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Distribution - retailing
Fuel retailing inc coal, wood, petrol, oil products, etc
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Extraction
Oil & gas extraction
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Oil, coal, coke, etc, products manufacture
Oil products refining
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Transport services
Shipping services - long distance, inc ship ownership & management
Notes:
Established 1907 when Royal Dutch Petroleum Co merged with Shell Transport & Trading Co Ltd with the latter receiving a 40% share in the new entity. An earlier connection was Asiatic Petroleum Co Ltd, a joint venture between the two to sell products in Asia, notably China and Hong Kong; it grew to be a major Hong Kong and Shanghai based business. By 1907 Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd owned and manage the business's transport and storage activities. RDS was led until mid 1930s by its architect, Sir Henri Deterding, 1866-1939. Shell Transport had been formed in 1897 by Marcus and Samuel Samuel, a merchant bank that traded as Marcus Samuel & Co. From 1912 established major exploration, refining and marketing interests in USA which in the 1920s formed Shell Union Oil Corp and, from 1949, Shell Oil Co. 1919 acquired Eagle Petroleum Co with large interests in Mexico and in 1921 established Shell Mex Ltd to market the products of both. The latter merged with the UK interests of BP in 1931 to form Shell Mex & BP Ltd which survived until 1975. RDS emerged as a major international oil and, later, natural gas business with interests in exploration, production, transport and sales of oil/petroleum products. 2004 damaged by a scandal relating to over estimation of reserves which prompted a corporate reconstruction under a new top company, Royal Dutch Shell Plc
Publications:
- 1897-1947. To mark the jubilee of the Shell Transport & Trading Company by Unknown
- ABZ and Big Oil. 50 years of black gold in the Silver City by Cresswell, Jeremy
- 'Admirals and the oilmen. The relationship between the Royal Navy and the oil companies, 1900-24' in S R Palmer & G Williams (eds), Charted and Uncharted Waters. Proceedings of a conference on British maritime history ... 1981 by Jones, Geoffrey
- 'Americanization in Shell Oil' in G Jones & L Galvez-Munoz (eds), Foreign Multinationals in the United States. Management and performance by Priest, Tyler
- An International Oilman. Autobiography of Sir Henri Deterding by Naylor, Stanley (ed)
- Britain, France and Mesopotamian oil, 1916-1920 by Scazziere, Luigi
- Britain's Quest for Oil. The First World War and the peace conferences by Gibson, Martin W
- British government and the oil companies, 1912-1924. The search for an oil policy by Jones, G Gareth
- British Oil Policy, 1919-1939 by McBeth, Brian S
- Century in Oil. The "Shell" Transport & Trading Company 1897-1997 by Howarth, Stephen
- Early Computing in Britain. Ferranti Ltd and government funding, 1948-1958 by Lavington, Simon H
- Enterprise in Oil. A history of Shell in the United States by Beaton, Kendall
- European Direct Investment in the USA before World War 1 by Buckley, Peter J, & Brian R Roberts
- 'Explosives from oil. The transformation of Royal Dutch/Shell during World War 1 from oil to petrochemical company' in B J Buchanan (ed), Gunpowder, Explosives and the State. A technological history by Homburg, Ernst
- Global Companies in the Twentieth Century. Selected archival histories. Vol 8. Royal Dutch Shell by McIntosh, Malcolm, & Ruth Edwards (eds)
- Henri Deterding. De koninklijke de Shell en de Rothschilds by Hendrix, Paul
- History of Royal Dutch Shell by Jonker, Joost, et al
- History of the British Petroleum Company. Volume 1. The developing years, 1901-1932 by Ferrier, R W
- History of the British Petroleum Company. Volume 2. The Anglo Iranian Years, 1928-1954 by Bamberg, Jim H
- History of the Burmah Oil Company, Volume 2, 1924-1966 by Corley, T A B
- History of the Burmah Oil Company, Volume1,1886-1924 by Corley, T A B
- History of the Royal Dutch by Gerretson, Frederik C
- History of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies by Unknown
- Jack Beddington. The footnote man by Artmonsky, Ruth
- Juan Vicente Gómez and the oil companies in Venezuela, 1908-1935 by McBeth, Brian S
- Londres en Caracas y La Haya en Maracaibo. Retos empresariales de Royal Dutch Shell en la industria petrolera venezolana entre 1943-1958 by Caceres, Alejandro E
- Marcus Samuel, First Viscount Bearsted and the Founder of Shell Transport & Trading Co, 1853-1927 by Henriques, Robert D Q
- Mr Five Per Cent. The biography of Calouste Gulbenkian by Hewins, Ralph
- Mr Five Per Cent. The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world's richest man by Conlin, Jonathan
- Narrative reporting and crises. British Petroleum and Shell, 1950-1958 by Abdelrehim, Neveen, Josephine Maltby & Steven Toms
- 'Nature' and 'art' of Shell advertising in the early 1930s by Hewitt, John
- Oil and Empire. British policy and Mesopotamian oil, 1900-1920 by Kent, Marian
- Oil fuel market in Britain, 1900-14. A lost cause revisited by Jones, G Gareth
- Oil, War and Anglo-American Relations. American and British reactions to Mexico's expropriation of foreign oil properties, 1937-1941 by Jayne, Catherine E
- 'Operating on several fronts. The trans-national activities of Royal Dutch/Shell, 1914-1918' in R MacLeod & J A Johnson (eds), Frontline and Factory. Comparative perspectives on the chemical industry at war, 1914-24 by Homburg, Ernst
- 'Organisation and management planning in the Royal Dutch/Shell Group' in R S Edwards & H Townsend (eds), Business Enterprise. Its growth and organisation by Engle, Albert
- Rise and Fall of the British Documentary. The story of the film movement founded by John Grierson by Sussex, Elizabeth
- Royal Dutch Petroleum Co, 1890-1990 by De Wit, Piet (ed)
- Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, 1890-1950. Diamond jubilee book by Unknown
- Royal Dutch Shell. Company strategies for dealing with environmental issues by Sluyterman, Keetie
- Rusham Park. History and development. The story of the new Richardson Vicks Ltd and Vicks International Research & Development Centre in the United Kingdom by Yorke, D A
- Russian industry and British business, 1910-1930. Oil and armaments by Jones, Geoffrey, & Clive Trebilcock
- Seven Sisters. Great oil companies and the world they made by Sampson, Anthony
- Shell Art and Advertising by Scott, Anthony, Oliver Green & Margaret Timmers
- Shell Centre by Unknown
- Shell Poster Book by Unknown
- Shell Shock. The secrets and spin of an oil giant by Cummins, Ian, & John Beasant
- Shell's England. Corporate patronage and English art in the Shell posters of the 1930s by Speakman, Malcolm V
- Shipping and Shell by Unknown
- Sino British Relations during 1910-30. A case study of British business in Hankow by Chang, N J
- Sir Henri Deterding and Royal Dutch Shell. Changing control of world oil, 1900-1940 by Hendrix, Paul
- Sir Robert Waley Cohen, 1877-1952. A biography by Henriques, Robert D Q
- Technical Development of Royal Dutch/Shell, 1890-1940 by Forbes, R J, & D R O'Beirne
- 'That's Shell, That Is'. An exhibition of Shell advertising art by Sheppard, T, & J Hoole
- The Engineers. A record of the work done by Shell engineers in the Second World War by Nockolds, Harold
- The Most Powerful Man in the World. The life of Sir Henri Deterding by Roberts, Glyn
- The new broad arrow. Origins of British oil policy by King, Joseph E
- The Oil Companies and the British Government, 1900-1925 by Jones, G Gareth
- 'The 'Old Aunts'. Government, politicians and the oil business' in J Turner (ed), Businessmen and Politics. Studies of business activity in British politics, 1900-1945 by Jones, Geoffrey
- The Shell that Hit Germany Hardest by Smith, P G A
- The State and the Emergence of the British Oil Industry by Jones, Geoffrey
- This is Shell by Unknown
- Thornton Research Centre by Unknown
- Time's Forelock. A record of Shell's contribution to aviation in the Second World War by Kerr, George P
- Towards a New Philosophy of Management. The company development programme of Shell UK Ltd by Hill, Paul
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Royal Dutch Petroleum Co
- Shell Transport & Trading Co Ltd
- Deterding, Sir Henri
- Samuel, Marcus
- Samuel, Samuel
- Eagle Petroleum Co Ltd
- Shell Mex Ltd
- Shell Mex & BP Ltd
- Royal Dutch Shell Plc
- Samuel, Marcus, & Co
- Asiatic Petroleum Co Ltd
- Shell Oil Co
- Shell Union Oil Corp
- Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Mexico
- Netherlands
Sectors:
- Chemical production Basic chemicals production
- Distribution - retailing Fuel retailing inc coal, wood, petrol, oil products, etc
- Extraction Oil & gas extraction
- Oil, coal, coke, etc, products manufacture Oil products refining
- Transport services Shipping services - long distance, inc ship ownership & management
Notes:
Established 1907 when Royal Dutch Petroleum Co merged with Shell Transport & Trading Co Ltd with the latter receiving a 40% share in the new entity. An earlier connection was Asiatic Petroleum Co Ltd, a joint venture between the two to sell products in Asia, notably China and Hong Kong; it grew to be a major Hong Kong and Shanghai based business. By 1907 Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd owned and manage the business's transport and storage activities. RDS was led until mid 1930s by its architect, Sir Henri Deterding, 1866-1939. Shell Transport had been formed in 1897 by Marcus and Samuel Samuel, a merchant bank that traded as Marcus Samuel & Co. From 1912 established major exploration, refining and marketing interests in USA which in the 1920s formed Shell Union Oil Corp and, from 1949, Shell Oil Co. 1919 acquired Eagle Petroleum Co with large interests in Mexico and in 1921 established Shell Mex Ltd to market the products of both. The latter merged with the UK interests of BP in 1931 to form Shell Mex & BP Ltd which survived until 1975. RDS emerged as a major international oil and, later, natural gas business with interests in exploration, production, transport and sales of oil/petroleum products. 2004 damaged by a scandal relating to over estimation of reserves which prompted a corporate reconstruction under a new top company, Royal Dutch Shell PlcPublications:
- 1897-1947. To mark the jubilee of the Shell Transport & Trading Company by Unknown
- ABZ and Big Oil. 50 years of black gold in the Silver City by Cresswell, Jeremy
- 'Admirals and the oilmen. The relationship between the Royal Navy and the oil companies, 1900-24' in S R Palmer & G Williams (eds), Charted and Uncharted Waters. Proceedings of a conference on British maritime history ... 1981 by Jones, Geoffrey
- 'Americanization in Shell Oil' in G Jones & L Galvez-Munoz (eds), Foreign Multinationals in the United States. Management and performance by Priest, Tyler
- An International Oilman. Autobiography of Sir Henri Deterding by Naylor, Stanley (ed)
- Britain, France and Mesopotamian oil, 1916-1920 by Scazziere, Luigi
- Britain's Quest for Oil. The First World War and the peace conferences by Gibson, Martin W
- British government and the oil companies, 1912-1924. The search for an oil policy by Jones, G Gareth
- British Oil Policy, 1919-1939 by McBeth, Brian S
- Century in Oil. The "Shell" Transport & Trading Company 1897-1997 by Howarth, Stephen
- Early Computing in Britain. Ferranti Ltd and government funding, 1948-1958 by Lavington, Simon H
- Enterprise in Oil. A history of Shell in the United States by Beaton, Kendall
- European Direct Investment in the USA before World War 1 by Buckley, Peter J, & Brian R Roberts
- 'Explosives from oil. The transformation of Royal Dutch/Shell during World War 1 from oil to petrochemical company' in B J Buchanan (ed), Gunpowder, Explosives and the State. A technological history by Homburg, Ernst
- Global Companies in the Twentieth Century. Selected archival histories. Vol 8. Royal Dutch Shell by McIntosh, Malcolm, & Ruth Edwards (eds)
- Henri Deterding. De koninklijke de Shell en de Rothschilds by Hendrix, Paul
- History of Royal Dutch Shell by Jonker, Joost, et al
- History of the British Petroleum Company. Volume 1. The developing years, 1901-1932 by Ferrier, R W
- History of the British Petroleum Company. Volume 2. The Anglo Iranian Years, 1928-1954 by Bamberg, Jim H
- History of the Burmah Oil Company, Volume 2, 1924-1966 by Corley, T A B
- History of the Burmah Oil Company, Volume1,1886-1924 by Corley, T A B
- History of the Royal Dutch by Gerretson, Frederik C
- History of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies by Unknown
- Jack Beddington. The footnote man by Artmonsky, Ruth
- Juan Vicente Gómez and the oil companies in Venezuela, 1908-1935 by McBeth, Brian S
- Londres en Caracas y La Haya en Maracaibo. Retos empresariales de Royal Dutch Shell en la industria petrolera venezolana entre 1943-1958 by Caceres, Alejandro E
- Marcus Samuel, First Viscount Bearsted and the Founder of Shell Transport & Trading Co, 1853-1927 by Henriques, Robert D Q
- Mr Five Per Cent. The biography of Calouste Gulbenkian by Hewins, Ralph
- Mr Five Per Cent. The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world's richest man by Conlin, Jonathan
- Narrative reporting and crises. British Petroleum and Shell, 1950-1958 by Abdelrehim, Neveen, Josephine Maltby & Steven Toms
- 'Nature' and 'art' of Shell advertising in the early 1930s by Hewitt, John
- Oil and Empire. British policy and Mesopotamian oil, 1900-1920 by Kent, Marian
- Oil fuel market in Britain, 1900-14. A lost cause revisited by Jones, G Gareth
- Oil, War and Anglo-American Relations. American and British reactions to Mexico's expropriation of foreign oil properties, 1937-1941 by Jayne, Catherine E
- 'Operating on several fronts. The trans-national activities of Royal Dutch/Shell, 1914-1918' in R MacLeod & J A Johnson (eds), Frontline and Factory. Comparative perspectives on the chemical industry at war, 1914-24 by Homburg, Ernst
- 'Organisation and management planning in the Royal Dutch/Shell Group' in R S Edwards & H Townsend (eds), Business Enterprise. Its growth and organisation by Engle, Albert
- Rise and Fall of the British Documentary. The story of the film movement founded by John Grierson by Sussex, Elizabeth
- Royal Dutch Petroleum Co, 1890-1990 by De Wit, Piet (ed)
- Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, 1890-1950. Diamond jubilee book by Unknown
- Royal Dutch Shell. Company strategies for dealing with environmental issues by Sluyterman, Keetie
- Rusham Park. History and development. The story of the new Richardson Vicks Ltd and Vicks International Research & Development Centre in the United Kingdom by Yorke, D A
- Russian industry and British business, 1910-1930. Oil and armaments by Jones, Geoffrey, & Clive Trebilcock
- Seven Sisters. Great oil companies and the world they made by Sampson, Anthony
- Shell Art and Advertising by Scott, Anthony, Oliver Green & Margaret Timmers
- Shell Centre by Unknown
- Shell Poster Book by Unknown
- Shell Shock. The secrets and spin of an oil giant by Cummins, Ian, & John Beasant
- Shell's England. Corporate patronage and English art in the Shell posters of the 1930s by Speakman, Malcolm V
- Shipping and Shell by Unknown
- Sino British Relations during 1910-30. A case study of British business in Hankow by Chang, N J
- Sir Henri Deterding and Royal Dutch Shell. Changing control of world oil, 1900-1940 by Hendrix, Paul
- Sir Robert Waley Cohen, 1877-1952. A biography by Henriques, Robert D Q
- Technical Development of Royal Dutch/Shell, 1890-1940 by Forbes, R J, & D R O'Beirne
- 'That's Shell, That Is'. An exhibition of Shell advertising art by Sheppard, T, & J Hoole
- The Engineers. A record of the work done by Shell engineers in the Second World War by Nockolds, Harold
- The Most Powerful Man in the World. The life of Sir Henri Deterding by Roberts, Glyn
- The new broad arrow. Origins of British oil policy by King, Joseph E
- The Oil Companies and the British Government, 1900-1925 by Jones, G Gareth
- 'The 'Old Aunts'. Government, politicians and the oil business' in J Turner (ed), Businessmen and Politics. Studies of business activity in British politics, 1900-1945 by Jones, Geoffrey
- The Shell that Hit Germany Hardest by Smith, P G A
- The State and the Emergence of the British Oil Industry by Jones, Geoffrey
- This is Shell by Unknown
- Thornton Research Centre by Unknown
- Time's Forelock. A record of Shell's contribution to aviation in the Second World War by Kerr, George P
- Towards a New Philosophy of Management. The company development programme of Shell UK Ltd by Hill, Paul