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What companies merged to form Royal Dutch Shell? |
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company & the "Shell" transport & trading company(UK)
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What companies merged to form Royal Dutch Shell?
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Which company was formed in 1932?
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Shell-mex and BP
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Which company was formed in 1932?
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The reason of Shell's formation
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In order to compete with Standard Oil and deal with the Crisis of 1907
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The reason of Shell's formation
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which conpany did shell took control of in 1919?
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Mexican eagle petroleum company
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which conpany did shell took control of in 1919?
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which company formed in 1921?
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shell-mex limited
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which company formed in 1921?
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what happened to Shell-mex and BP in the year 1975 ?
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Shell-mex and BP split
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what happened to Shell-mex and BP in the year 1975 ?
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Founder of the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company
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Marcus Samuel
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Founder of the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company
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first Shell chairman to be neither Dutch nor British appointed 1 June 2006
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Jorma Ollila
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first Shell chairman to be neither Dutch nor British appointed 1 June 2006
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As of 1 July 2009, who is CEO of Shell.
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Peter Voser
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As of 1 July 2009, who is CEO of Shell.
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who is the current CEO of Shell?
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Ben van Beurden
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who is the current CEO of Shell?
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How many major groupings is Shell organized into?
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Four
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How many major groupings is Shell organized into?
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What are the 4 major groupings of Shell?
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Upstream International, Upstream Americas, Downstream, Projects & technology
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What are the 4 major groupings of Shell?
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What is the type of management of Shell's primary business?
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A vertically integrated oil company
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What is the type of management of Shell's primary business?
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When did Shell began production in Nigeria
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1958
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When did Shell began production in Nigeria
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How many petro stations and refineries does shell have?
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over 40,000 petro stations and 47 oil refineries
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How many petro stations and refineries does shell have?
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when and where was Malaysia's first oil well discovered and by who?
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Miri, 1910, by Shell
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when and where was Malaysia's first oil well discovered and by who?
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what's the name of the subsidiery of shell that operates in Philippines?
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Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation
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what's the name of the subsidiery of shell that operates in Philippines?
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To who and when did Shell disposed of its entire retail and commercial fuels business in Ireland?
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To Topaz energy Group in 2005
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To who and when did Shell disposed of its entire retail and commercial fuels business in Ireland?
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to who and when did Shell sell its gas stations and the heavy vehicle fuel supply networks in Finland and Sweden, along with a refinery located in Gothenburg, Sweden?
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To St1 on October 2010
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to who and when did Shell sell its gas stations and the heavy vehicle fuel supply networks in Finland and Sweden, along with a refinery located in Gothenburg, Sweden?
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what was shell accused of in 2004 which lead to a fine of £17 million?
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the over statement of its oil reserves.
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what was shell accused of in 2004 which lead to a fine of £17 million?
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what was shell accused of in Niger-Delta?
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pollution due to spill caused by corrosion of pipelines.
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what was shell accused of in Niger-Delta?
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what was shell accused of in Magdelena, Argentina?
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largest oil spill that has ever occurred in freshwater in the world. (on 15 January 1999, a Shell tank ship in Magdalena, Argentina collided with another tanker, emptying its contents into the lake)
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what was shell accused of in Magdelena, Argentina?
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what is the corrib gas controversy?
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it's a controversy in the irelands concerning the problems raised by the plan of Shell E&P ireland in the extraction of natural gas in the Corrib gas field. Controversies include the construction of pipelines and locations of onshore processing facilities.
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what is the corrib gas controversy?
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what was Shell accused of in Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People?
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The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People has struggled against the degradation of their lands by Shell in Nigeria. Controversies include the act of violence of the government and Shell to the Ogoni protesters.
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what was Shell accused of in Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People?
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what was the name of the writer who led the nonviolent campaign against shell in the Ogoniland?
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Ken Saro-Wiwa
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what was the name of the writer who led the nonviolent campaign against shell in the Ogoniland?
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whats the result of the trial by the Wiwa family held in The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York concernign the human rights violations of shell in Nigeria?
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shell payed a out-of-court settlement of $15.5 million in USD to the victims families but at the same time denied the liability for the deaths.
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whats the result of the trial by the Wiwa family held in The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York concernign the human rights violations of shell in Nigeria?
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which group opposed arctic drilling by shell?
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Greenpeace
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which group opposed arctic drilling by shell?
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what is the major LNG project that shell is operating in 2014?
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Gorgon LNG T1-3
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what is the major LNG project that shell is operating in 2014?
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what is the percent share of shell in the Gorgon gas project?
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25%
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what is the percent share of shell in the Gorgon gas project?
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what is the name of the oil field in the niger delta which began production in 2005 with shell as the operator and what is the percent share of shell in this project?
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Bonga Field, 55%
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what is the name of the oil field in the niger delta which began production in 2005 with shell as the operator and what is the percent share of shell in this project?
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list the top 5 companies of oil refinary in the world?
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Exxon Mobil, Shell, Sinopec, BP, ConocoPhilips
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list the top 5 companies of oil refinary in the world?
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who did Shell sell downstream operations in Australia to?
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Vitol Groups
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who did Shell sell downstream operations in Australia to?
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what are the supermajors?
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BP, Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Total SA, and sometimes ConocoPhillips
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what are the supermajors?
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what was the name of the first bulk tanker of the Shell transport and trading company?
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the Murex
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what was the name of the first bulk tanker of the Shell transport and trading company?
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what was the initial percent share in the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum and the Shell Transport and Trading?
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Royal Dutch with 60% and the Shell with 40%
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what was the initial percent share in the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum and the Shell Transport and Trading?
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what kind of oil did shell supplied during WWI?
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it was the sole supplyer of aviation fuel.
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what kind of oil did shell supplied during WWI?
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when was Shell Chemicals founded?
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1929
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when was Shell Chemicals founded?
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By the end of the 1920s Shell was the world's leading oil company, producing ___ of the globe's crude oil supply
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11%
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By the end of the 1920s Shell was the world's leading oil company, producing ___ of the globe's crude oil supply
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how many ships did shell loss during WWII due to GOVT. confiscation?
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87 ships
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how many ships did shell loss during WWII due to GOVT. confiscation?
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when was the first commercially viable offshore oil well drilled and where?
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1947 in Gulf of Mexico
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when was the first commercially viable offshore oil well drilled and where?
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By 1955 Shell had____ offshore wells
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300
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By 1955 Shell had____ offshore wells
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When did Shell formed a partnership with Ferrari in Formula One to help develop its lubricants?`
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1950
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When did Shell formed a partnership with Ferrari in Formula One to help develop its lubricants?`
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Shell opened the 1960s by strengthening its presence in the Middle East through involvement in which country?
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Oman
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Shell opened the 1960s by strengthening its presence in the Middle East through involvement in which country?
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what was the name of the supertanker which was used in the first commercial scheme by Conch International Methane, in which Shell held a 40 per cent interest, and delivered LNG to the UK from Algeria for the first time in 1964?
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The S.S. Methane Princess
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what was the name of the supertanker which was used in the first commercial scheme by Conch International Methane, in which Shell held a 40 per cent interest, and delivered LNG to the UK from Algeria for the first time in 1964?
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what other fields other than oil did shell attempted to participate In the 1970s?
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metal, nuclear power, and coal
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what other fields other than oil did shell attempted to participate In the 1970s?
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In 1976, to ensure ethical business standards across Shell’s global operations, the Group drew up______
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General Business Principles
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In 1976, to ensure ethical business standards across Shell’s global operations, the Group drew up______
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what was shell's action in response to the rise in price of oil caused by the Iran-Iraq war?
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stepped up its development of subsea exploration both in the North Sea and the United States.
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what was shell's action in response to the rise in price of oil caused by the Iran-Iraq war?
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what kind of fuel is Shell the world’s leading distributor of?
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Biofuel |
what kind of fuel is Shell the world’s leading distributor of?
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