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Shell USA, Inc. (formerly Shell Oil Company, Inc.) is the United States–based wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc, a UK-based transnational corporation "oil major" which is among the largest oil companies in the world. Approximately 18,000 Shell employees are based in the U.S.
Still in the early 1960s, Shell covered about 20% of the Italian oil needs. [151] The Italian Shell was the first company to be advertised with Carosello. [153] [154] In 1959 the company purchased the former Condor refinery of Rho and in 1967 it built a large plant in Taranto, [151] whose works began in 1964 with an initial investment of 25 ...
This list of oil fields includes some major oil fields of the past and present. Countries by proven oil reserves 2017. The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. [1] However, 94% of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1,500 giant and major fields. [2]
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[5] [10] Shell had selected the site due to the ongoing Marcellus natural gas trend and the site's prime location within the Marcellus Shale. [1] By 2015, after executing several short-term lease extensions, Shell purchased the property outright from Horsehead, and subsequently purchasing other nearby properties, effectively absorbing all of ...
Shell and Texaco combined their refining and marketing operations, assets valued at $17 billion, in 1997. [6] The joint business was known as Equilon. Antitrust litigation accepted the deal under the condition that Shell sell its current refinery, located directly north of (adjacent to) the newly-acquired Equilon refinery.
The Ursa tension leg platform is an oil platform with a tension leg structure located at about 130 miles (210 km) southeast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico It is operated by Shell . It has a total height from the seabed to its top of 4,285 feet (1,306 m).
Operated by Shell, with JV partners Chevron (37.5%) and BP (27.5%), the spar acts as a hub for and enables development of three fields Great White, Tobago, and Silvertip. The oil and gas fields beneath the platform lie in a geological formation holding resources estimated at 3–15 billion barrels of oil equivalent according to a report by the BSEE, formerly known as the MMS.