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Shell was formed in April 1907 through the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom. The combined company rapidly became the leading competitor of the American Standard Oil and by 1920 Shell was the largest producer of oil in the world. [ 7 ]
BG Group plc was a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. [3][4] On 8 April 2015, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire BG Group for $70 billion, subject to regulatory and shareholder agreement. The sale was completed on 15 February 2016.
Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, KBE (19 April 1866 – 4 February 1939) was one of the first executives of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and was its general manager for 36 years, from 1900 to 1936, and was also chairman of the combined Royal Dutch/Shell oil company. He succeeded the founder of Royal Dutch, Jean Baptiste August Kessler, when ...
Shares of BP (BP) jumped to the highest level in six months on media reports that Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A) considered bidding for the British company during the Gulf Oil disaster. BP shares ...
For example, in the early 1980s Royal Dutch NV was trading at a discount of approximately 30% relative to Shell Transport and Trading PLC. In the academic finance literature, Rosenthal and Young (1990) and Froot and Dabora (1999) show that significant mispricing in three DLCs (Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever, and Smithkline Beecham) has existed ...
By eschewing the traditional method of developing an LNG terminal on land, Shell has potentially opened the door to save the industry billions through standardized designs, smaller-scale projects ...
When Royal Dutch and Shell consolidated into a single company on 20 July 2005, the company's senior official became the chairman of the board of directors. Aad Jacobs, 2005–2006. Jorma Ollila, 2006–2015. Charles Holliday, 2015–2021. Andrew Mackenzie, 2021–.
Shell-Mex and BP. Shell-Mex and BP Limited was a British joint venture between two petroleum companies – Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and the British Petroleum Company (BP). It was formed in 1932 when both companies decided to merge their United Kingdom marketing operations, [1] partly in response to the difficult economic conditions of the times.