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'''Shell
Shell was formed in April 1907 through the [[Mergers and acquisitions|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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Garavini |first1=Giuliano |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_W6fDwAAQBAJ |title=The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2019 |isbn=9780198832836 |page=14 |access-date=2 April 2021 |archive-date=17 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317111213/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_OPEC_in_the_Twentie/_W6fDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Shell first entered the chemicals industry in 1929. Shell was one of the "[[Seven Sisters (oil companies)|Seven Sisters]]" which dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s. In 1964, Shell was a partner in the world's first commercial sea transportation of [[liquefied natural gas]] (LNG).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Peebles |first1=Malcolm |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BFddDwAAQBAJ&q=shell+first+lng+cargo+1964 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816111115/https://books.google.com/books?id=BFddDwAAQBAJ&q=shell+first+lng+cargo+1964 |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 August 2021 |title=Evolution of the Gas Industry |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |year=1980 |isbn=9781349051557 |page=194 }}</ref> In 1970, Shell acquired the mining company [[BHP#Billiton|Billiton]], which it subsequently sold in 1994 and now forms part of [[BHP]]. In recent decades gas has become an increasingly important part of Shell's business<ref name="bloom8415">{{cite news |last=Fox |first=Justin |date=8 April 2015 |title=Stop Calling Shell an Oil Company |publisher=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-04-08/maybe-it-s-time-to-stop-calling-shell-an-oil-company |url-status=live |access-date=29 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030081338/https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-04-08/maybe-it-s-time-to-stop-calling-shell-an-oil-company |archive-date=30 October 2016}}</ref> and Shell acquired [[BG Group]] in 2016.<ref name="bloom8415" />
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