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'''Shell''' (called '''Shell Oil''' in North America), has its headquarters split between the Shell Centre in London and [[The Hague, Netherlands]]. It is properly named '''Royal Dutch/Shell Group''', and 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. Its [[ADRAmerican Depositary Receipt|ADRs]]s are traded on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] under RD (Royal Dutch) and SC (Shell).

One of the original [[Seven Sisters (oil companies)|Seven Sisters]], Royal Dutch/Shell is the world’s second largest oil company and a major player in the petrochemical industry and the solar business. 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.