Shell’s purpose is to power progress together with more and cleaner energy solutions. Our strategy is to strengthen our position as a leading energy company by providing oil, natural gas and low-carbon energy as the world’s energy system changes. Safety and social responsibility are [...]
[...] this to continue. Shell’s Chemicals strategy focuses on activities with a clear competitive advantage. We optimise returns from using different feedstocks, invest in our existing first-class footprint, and continue to focus on enhancing our customer relationships and service. With a competitive [...]
Company overview -1 Company overview Shell Investors’ Handbook 2013-2017 This section provides an overview of the company, including information on the strategy, financial framework and key projects.
[...] of BG accelerated our growth strategy, by a decade, and our Integrated Gas business is now a cash engine. With its differentiated and resilient portfolio, it grows with the gas market and delivers free cash flow. This business also manages our New Energies portfolio. Integrated Gas Cash engine New [...]
In conventional exploration, we are executing a strategy focused on both short-term value through established ventures and mid-term growth by expanding our heartlands with selective investments in emerging basins and limited frontier positions. Since the BG combination, we have sustained our focus [...]
[...] and technology. We execute a maintenance strategy to support sustainable equipment reliability, and have implemented a multi-year programme to reduce routine flaring of associated gas. See RDS Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2017. Rest of Africa We also have interests in Algeria, Kenya, [...]
The realisation of Shell’s business strategy depends on these capabilities: planning, designing, engineering and constructing oil and gas projects — including the drilling of wells — so that they return the most value per dollar invested; developing nascent technologies into value-generating [...]
[...] are all consistent with Shell’s strategy and portfolio ambitions and were completed at competitive valuations. At the start of 2018, we were close to completing our $30 billion divestment programme, with $22 billion of divestments completed so far. This programme is a crucial part of the push to [...]
[...] Chemicals Our Chemicals business strategy is based on investment at existing sites to increase capacity, improve efficiency and integration, and strengthen our feedstock sources. Securing new integrated growth projects and developing technologies to convert gas into chemicals are also critical [...]
Shell’s strategy and financial framework are designed to manage through multi-year macroeconomic cycles and multi-decade investment and returns programmes. We balance near-term affordability and cost trends with the fundamentally long-term nature of our industry. Cash flow priorities Priorities [...]
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