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Shell Oil, properly named '''Royal Dutch/Shell''', was founded in 1890 by [[Jean Kessler]], along with Henri Deterding and Hugo Loudon, when a Royal charter was granted by the Queen of the Netherlands to a small oil exploration company known as "Royal Dutch." To compete against the giant American oil company, [[Standard Oil]], in [[1907]] Royal Dutch merged with The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, p.l.c. of the UK. [[ADR]]s are traded on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] under RD (Royal Dutch) and SC (Shell).