Shell

Company introduction

Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world and the second-largest energy company. Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies employing 90,000 people in more than 80 countries. Our aim is to help meet the energy needs of society in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible.

The 'Royal Dutch Company for the Exploitation of Petroleum Wells in the Netherlands East Indies' was registered in The Hague in 1890. The name was abbreviated in 1949 to Royal Dutch Petroleum Company. The three companies and their operating subsidiaries are managed worldwide by Shell International. Operating subsidiaries are divided into the following divisions into Exploration and Production, Oil products, Chemicals and Gas & Power.

Over recent years Shell has successfully come to be seen as one of the more progressive companies within its sector. Since it withdrew from the Global Climate Coalition (lobby group) in 1998[1]. Shell has tried hard to brand itself as a caring, green company. Even before that, a concerted public relations campaign had followed the execution (in November 1995) of Nigerian writer and campaigner Ken Saro Wiwa[2]. Shell portrays itself as a good corporate citizen, but like all multinationals and all oil companies Royal-Dutch/Shell continues, behind the greenwash, with many of its old ways.

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Shell's PR disaster, and the turning point for CSR

Niger Delta is an unstable environment where ethnic disputes and conflict over oil revenues has resulted in a corporate social responsibility for Shell Oil.

The Niger Delta is a region in Nigeria fuelled by inter-ethnic disputes in which access to oil revenue causes greater conflict. Nigeria is the world’s sixth largest...