Shell at a glance

Our strategy to generate profitable growth remains to drive forward with our investment programme, to deliver sustainable growth and provide competitive returns to shareholders, 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 by numbers (figures for 2011)

• + 80 countries where we operate
  ~90,000 number of employees
• 48% of our production is natural gas
• 18.8 million tonnes of LNG sold during the year
• 3.2 million barrels of gas and oil we produce every day
• 43,000 Shell service stations worldwide
• 30+ refineries and chemical plants we run

Our businesses

• Upstream explores for and extracts 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

2011

• Revenue: $470.2 billion 
• Income: $31.2 billion 
• Capital investment: $31.1 billion 
• Investment in research and development: $1.1 billion 

Fast facts for sustainable development

• $2.3 billion spent on developing alternative energies, carbon capture and storage, and on CO2 R&D over the past five years.
• Almost $12 billion spent on goods and services in 2011 from companies in countries with lower incomes.~$125 million spent on voluntary social investments in 2011.
• Learn more about our social and environmental performance