Saturday, September 6, 2008

Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known simply as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins. It is the second largest private sector energy corporation in the world.

Forbes Global 2000 in 2007 ranked Shell the eighth largest company in the world. Also in 2007, Fortune magazine ranked Shell as the third-largest corporation in the world, behind Wal-Mart and ExxonMobil.

Royal Dutch/Shell is the world's second-largest private sector oil company by revenue, Europe's largest energy group and a major player in the petrochemical industry.

read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell & http://www.shell.com/home/content/aboutshell/who_we_are/our_history/history_of_pecten/history_of_the_pecten_23112006.html

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