Shell at a glance

With approximately 90,000 employees in more than 80 countries and territories, Shell helps to meet the world’s growing demand for energy, aiming to do so in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways.

Our values
Our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people form the basis of the Shell General Business Principles.

Our business activities in Thailand
Shell prides itself on supplying your company with the quality products and customer service you have come to expect over the years. We aim to make doing business with us as smooth as possible.

Our contribution
For more than a century of its operations in Thailand, Shell has been growing side by side with the country's social and economic development. As a good corporate citizen and an integral part of the community, Shell has played a vital role in contributing to the continued development of the society. Many of the projects have yielded immediate benefits to the community while others have served as strong bases for sustainable development.

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. Our headquarters are in The Hague, the Netherlands, and our Chief Executive Officer is Peter Voser. The parent company of the Shell group is Royal Dutch Shell plc, which is incorporated in England and Wales.

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.

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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 (2010)
• 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

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2011

• Revenue: $368.1 billion
• Income: $20.5 billion
• Capital investment: $30.6 billion
• Investment in research and development: $1 billion

Fast facts for sustainable development

• $2.1 billion spent on developing alternative energies, carbon capture and storage, and on CO2 R&D over the past five years.
• $13 billion spent on goods and services in 2010 from companies in countries with lower incomes.
• >$121 million spent on voluntary social investments in 2010.

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