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Meeting rising energy demand with lower CO₂ emissions is a global challenge. At Shell we work with governments, sharing our technical know-how and understanding of the energy system to help encourage effective CO₂ policies. We partner with others in industry, NGOs and environmental specialists to improve the technical, environmental and social aspects of our operations.

Global energy demand is rising and so are consumer expectations – more people want energy from cleaner sources. At Shell we are unlocking new energy sources and squeezing more from what we have. With others we are finding ways to lower our emissions and helping customers to do the same. In building a better energy future we all have a part to play – let’s go.


 

• Shell in South Africa

   

  

  Shell has been active in South Africa since 1902.  Our main business activities in South Africa include Retail and Commercial Fuels, Lubricants and Oils, Chemicals and Manufacturing. Our head offices in South Africa are based in Johannesburg.

  Our values
  Our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people form the basis of the Shell General Business Principles.

  Shell in South Africa
  Shell came to South Africa in 1902.  Shell South Africa's main focus at the time was on paraffin and kerosene, which brought both light and heat to communities across Southern Africa. Throughout its long association with South Africa, Shell has played an important role in the country, not only as a premier oil company, but also as a committed corporate citizen and change agent.

  Our business activities in South Africa
  Today, Shell South Africa is mainly involved in the Retail and Commercial Fuels, Lubricants and Oils, Chemicals and Manufacturing sectors.  We have a nationwide Retail network of strategically located service stations, offering our customers a variety of fuels products, as well as friendly service and convenience shopping.  Our Commercial Fuels and Lubricants division sells diesel, lubricants, illuminating paraffin, bitumen and heavy furnace fuels directly to end users in the transport, construction, manufacturing, mining, marine, agriculture and general consumer markets.  In the Manufacturing area, the Sapref refinery, jointly owned by Shell and BP, is one of the largest refineries in Africa.  Other Shell interests in South Africa include Aviation, Chemicals and LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas).

    Royal Dutch Shell Plc and partners are investing $2 billion in a program to end natural gas flaring in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, after the projects were delayed because of funding and security problems.

Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria, or SPDC, has invested more than $3 billion since 2002 to cut flaring of gas, which is pumped together with oil, said Alice Ajeh, a Nigeria- based spokeswoman at Shell. Flaring decreased 65 per cent between 2002 and 2009, partly because of lower production, she said.

“Due to security and funding issues, especially funding shortfall from our majority partner, a lot of the projects were stalled, or delayed,” Ajeh said in Shell video interview. “However, these projects are going right now, and we are happy at the pace at which they are going,” she said without saying when the flaring will end.

Attacks by armed groups in the Niger Delta, home to Nigeria’s energy industry, cut more than 28 per cent of the country’s oil production between 2006 and 2009 and deterred investment. Output started to recover after a government amnesty program last year prompted thousands of fighters to disarm.
SPDC accounts for 75 per cent of domestic gas supply in Nigeria. Last year, 48 companies expressed interest in ventures that will help to stop the practice of burning off gas into the air.

Once the program is completed, it “will cover more than 75 per cent of SPDC’s production potential,” Ajeh said.

The Hague-based Shell, Europe’s largest oil company, holds 30 per cent of SPDC; Nigeria national Petroleum Corp. holds a 55 stake; Total SA has 10 per cent; and Eni SpA five
per cent. 


Shell started exploration drilling campaign in Western Australia
Anglo Dutch major Shell has started its 2010 exploration drilling campaign off Western Australia comprising three firm wells.

Brazilian Ultrapar interested to acquire Royal Dutch Shell's European liquefied petroleum gas

Brazil's Ultrapar is set to submit an offer for Royal Dutch Shell's European liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) arm alongside a string of private equity bidders, the Financial                                     Times reported.

Shell moves futher in US shale gas market

Royal Dutch Shell plc continued building its portfolio in North America tight gas, with new positions in high potential US shale gas acreage, in the Marcellus and Eagle Ford plays, the company reported in a news release.