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[[Image:ShellOilLogo.jpg]]'''Shell Oil''', headquartered in [[The Hague, Netherlands]], 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."▼
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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).
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