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Press Release

Shell Credit Card Driving Loyalty

12/06/2007

New cardholders "earn 25 cents per gallon" on the purchase of 100 Gallon by using Shell Credit Card.

HOUSTON – June 12, 2007 — Don’t be surprised if you see more customers at Shell stations this summer.  That’s because Shell Oil Products US has launched its “Earn 25 cents per gallon” promotion to reward new Shell Credit Card consumer account holders for their fuel purchases.

Between July 2nd and September 30th, customers that open a new Shell Credit Card account will be eligible to earn 25 cents per gallon on the purchase of their first 100 gallons of Shell gasoline.  New account holders must use their Shell Credit Card to purchase the fuel and will have 90 days from the account open date to reach the 100-gallon mark.  Once cardholders have purchased 100 gallons, they will receive a $25 Shell gift card by mail.

“The ‘Earn 25 cents per gallon’ promotion is a great way to create loyal cardholders and increase repeat business to our retail locations,” said Carolyn Yapp, Shell US card and payments manager. “Our new promotion is designed to help people get in the habit of using their new Shell Card on a repeat basis, which should help turn new cardholders into loyal customers and drive even more traffic to Shell retail locations.”

With the goal of booking more than 25,000 new consumer credit card accounts, the promotion will benefit Shell-branded wholesale, direct retail, and multi-site operators by driving more site traffic and increasing the use of Shell Credit Cards.   Shell consumer Credit Card users are especially attractive customers for retailers because there are no merchant service fees on card transactions and Shell research shows that Shell cardholders purchase more fuel compared to regular bankcard customers. 

The promotion will be supported with national radio, newspaper, and internet advertising, as well as Point-of-Purchase (POP) materials, including pump toppers, pole signs, building signs, and register toppers.  In addition to the new credit card promotion, Shell retail sites will continue to feature messaging reinforcing the Shell “Passionate Experts” campaign. 

Consumers can apply for the Shell Card at Shell retailers nationwide via the Web site at  www.shellcreditcard.com or via phone at (888) 98-SHELL (987-4355).

POP images are available upon request.

Shell Oil Company is an affiliate of the Shell Group (NYSE:RDS.A) and (NYSE:RDS.B). For more information, please visit www.shell.com.  Shell Oil Products US, a subsidiary of Shell Oil Company, is a leader in the refining, transportation and marketing of fuels, and has a network of approximately 6,000 branded gasoline stations in the Western United States. Motiva Enterprises LLC refines and markets branded products through approximately 7,700 Shell-branded stations in the Eastern and Southern United States. Shell Oil Company is a 50 percent owner of Motiva Enterprises LLC, along with Saudi Refining, Inc.

Inquiries

Edelman:  Corey Langworthy:  (323) 202-1408
Shell Oil Products US:  Shell Media Line:  (713) 241-4544   

Disclaimer Statement

This announcement contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risk factors associated with the oil, gas, power, chemicals and renewables business. It is believed that the expectations reflected in these statements are reasonable, but may be affected by a variety of variables which could cause actual results, trends or reserves replacement to differ materially, including, but not limited to: price fluctuations, actual demand, currency fluctuations, drilling and production results, reserve estimates, loss of market, industry competition, environmental risks, physical risks, risks associated with the identification of suitable potential acquisition properties and targets and the successful negotiation and consummation of transactions, the risk of doing business in developing countries, legislative, fiscal and regulatory developments including potential litigation and regulatory effects arising from recategorization of reserves, economic and financial market conditions in various countries and regions, political risks, project delay or advancement, approvals and cost estimates.

Please refer to the Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2004 (as amended) for a description of certain important factors, risks and uncertainties that may affect the Shell Group's businesses.  Neither Royal Dutch Shell plc nor any member of the Shell Group undertakes any obligation to publicly update or revise any of these forward-looking statements, whether to reflect new information, future events or other information.

Cautionary Note to US Investors: 
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') permits oil and gas companies, in their filings with the SEC, to disclose only proved reserves that a company has demonstrated by actual production or conclusive formation tests to be economically and legally producible under existing economic and operating conditions.  We use certain terms in this presentation, such as "expected producible resources" and "amount of reserves we expect to produce", that the SEC's guidelines strictly prohibit us from including in filings with the SEC.