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The Shell Oil company, known as [[Royal Dutch Shell]] and [[Shell Transport & Trading]] is one of the major oil companies of the world. It was one of the original [[Seven Sisters]] formedexisting afterbefore the break up of [[Standard Oil]].

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies - usually known as Shell - has grown out of an alliance made in [[1907]] between Royal Dutch Petroleum Company in the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, p.l.c. in the UK (NYSE: RD and NYSE: SC). Shell has five core businesses: Exploration and Production, Oil Products, Downstream Gas and Power, Chemicals and Renewables, and operates in more than 140 countries across the world.