Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, also translated as "Shell", is the largest oil company in the world, headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands and London, England, and formed by the merger of Royal Dutch Oil Company and British Shell Company. It is the world's leading producer of oil, natural gas and petrochemical industries, and the world's largest retailer of automobile fuel and lubricants. It is also a pioneer in LNG industry and has rich experience in financing, management and operation. The business covers 140 countries around the world, with nearly 90,000 employees, and the oil and gas production accounts for 3% and 3.5% of the global total output respectively. As the largest industrial company in the Netherlands, it ranked 1 in the Fortune Global 500 in 20 12.
I. Introduction
Royal Dutch Oil Company was founded in 1890, and was specially authorized by beatrix wilhelmina armgard, so it was named Royal Dutch Oil Company. In order to compete with American Standard Oil Company, the largest oil company at that time, Royal Dutch Oil Company merged with British Shell Transportation Trading Company in 1907 to form Royal Dutch Shell Group. The company has two headquarters holding system, with Dutch capital accounting for 60% and Britain accounting for 40%. The two headquarters are located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and London, England. The group company has 14 branches, which are engaged in petroleum, natural gas, chemical products, non-ferrous metals, coal and so on. Among them, the production and sales volume of petroleum and petrochemical fuels ranks second in the world. The company's petrochemical joint venture project in Huizhou, China, Guangdong, with a total investment of US$ 4.3 billion, was completed and put into operation in June 2005. It is one of the largest Sino-foreign joint ventures in China. The CEO of Royal Dutch Shell Group is Peter Voser, and the chairman is Jorma-Jaakko-Ollila.
Over the past 100 years, Shell Group has developed into the largest international oil company in the world:
The exploration and production areas are the most widely distributed, setting a world record for oil and gas deepwater development;
The world's largest private natural gas producer and trader, and a pioneer in international LNG technology;
The world's largest automobile fuel and lubricant retailer, liquefied petroleum gas and asphalt business is also in the international leading position;
One of the largest operators of chemical products in the world.
At present, Shell Group has invested in more than 130 countries, with global total assets exceeding 1000 billion USD and more than 654.38+million employees.
Shell's business is very extensive, including exploration and exploitation of oil and natural gas, production and sales of petroleum products and chemical products, production, processing, sales and power generation of coal and natural gas, and renewable energy.
Second, the history of China.
Shell's business in China has been developed for more than 100 years. In the early 1990s, Marco Semmer and Semmer, the founders of Shell Transportation Trading Co., Ltd., began to import kerosene from China and set up oil depots in Hongkong, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xiamen. 1894, the Senmo brothers used bulk tankers to transport kerosene to Shanghai. In the same year, Royal Dutch Oil Company began to import "Crown" brand kerosene to China. (At that time, the mainland called this "Crown" brand the Sangao brand; Shell Transport Trading Co., Ltd. and Royal Dutch Oil Company are competitors. 1903, the two companies cooperated in the Far East business and established the Asian Oil Company in London.
Asia Oil Company has set up offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 1906 and 1908 respectively. 19 13, and the two offices became the headquarters of Asia Fire Friends (South China) Co., Ltd. and Asia Fire Friends (North China) Co., Ltd. respectively.
1907, Royal Dutch and Shell merged their transportation business to form Royal Dutch/Shell Group. At that time, however, the company's business in China was still operated under the name of Asian Oil Company. Before World War II, Shell established more than 50 subsidiaries in China and operated 65,438+0,000 distribution offices in about 20 provinces. During the war, all the equipment was occupied and seriously damaged by the Japanese army, and all commercial activities stopped. After the war, Shell's reconstruction work progressed rapidly. 1949 When People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded, Shell had more than 1000 employees, including 35 foreign employees and 4 Chinese managers.
After 1950, Shell continued to develop in China, becoming the only western oil company operating in China at that time. Shell's main office in Shanghai was allowed to remain until 1966. At the same time, Shell has maintained a leading position in the petroleum and chemical products business in Hong Kong.
1970 and 7 1, Shell was invited to attend the Canton Fair. 65438-0980 Shell set up an office in Beijing to actively carry out trade in chemical products. During the period of 1983, Shell started oil exploration in the South China Sea in cooperation with Exxon Oil Company and Phillips Oil Company.