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Line 1: 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. in the UK (NYSE: RD and NYSE: SC). One of the original [[Seven Sisters]] Royal Dutch Shell operates in more than 100 countries and is the world’s largest petrochemicals company and the second largest oil company in the world. 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.

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