Shell at a glance

Shell has been operating in Canada since 1911, and is now one of the country’s largest integrated oil and gas companies. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Shell Canada employs more than 8,200 people across Canada and represented nearly a third of all global recruitment in 2008.

Currently, Shell Canada holds approximately 30% of Royal Dutch Shell’s global resource base and is continually looking for innovative ways to increase energy supplies while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Business Portfolio
Exploration and Production and Downstream have major businesses in Canada. Canadian operating facilities include:

· Four natural gas plants in Alberta
· Offshore natural gas production facilities in Nova Scotia (Sable - joint venture)
· Heavy oil production facilities in Alberta
· Oil sands mine and extraction plant in Northern Alberta (Athabasca Oil Sands Project – joint venture)
· Oil sands upgrader (Athabasca Oil Sands Project – joint venture)
· Three refineries, each in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec respectively
· One chemical plant in Alberta
· Two lubricant facilities, each in Alberta and Ontario respectively
· Over 1,600 branded retail stations

Innovation
At the Shell’s Calgary Research Centre, more than 200 scientists, engineers and technologists are applying their talents to benefit and improve our operations in Canada in four key areas: Engineering and Analytical Technical Services; Oil Sands Technology Development; Materials – Testing and Engineering; and Unconventional Oil Research.

Environment & Society
Operating responsibly in line with our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people, as well as seeking to reduce our environmental impact, is key to helping meet the world’s energy challenge and securing our long-term success.

Shell Canada has been a leader in sustainable development since 1991, and has built its programs to benefit communities near our operations, respect and safegaurd people and deliver value to customers.

Part of that is developing relationships based on mutual trust with Shell’s stakeholders and Aboriginal neighbours through ongoing consultation activities, and through our social investment activities, we contribute directly to the wellbeing of the broader communities who grant our social license to operate.

Since 2000, we have invested more than $66 million in three key social investment areas:
Environment - We contribute to environmental initiatives through our support of environmental enhancement and protection projects through the Shell Environmental Fund, and our partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
Employees - Many of Shell’s people are local heroes, volunteering and supporting vital community organizations. We support the contributions of time and money that our employees, retirees and retailers/agents make in their community through two key areas: the Shell Community Service Fund and United Way.
Education - Our investment in post-secondary education in Canada is based on a contribution of money, staff time and expertise. We also continue to support not-for-profit organizations delivering a range of educational programs to Aboriginal communities across Canada.

Shell has been exploring for and producing oil and gas for more than a century. We employ around 102,000 people in more than 100 countries and territories. Our headquarters are in The Hague, the Netherlands, and Peter Voser is our Chief Executive Officer.

Our strategy and priorities for the future are "more upstream and profitable downstream".

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Shell worldwide by numbers

• 2%: amount of world’s oil we produce
• 3%: amount of world’s gas we produce
• 3.2 million: barrels of gas and oil we produce every day
• 45,000: Shell service stations worldwide
• 10 million customers: buy our transport fuel
• +25: refineries and chemical plants we run (figures for 2008)
• 1: ranking by Fortune 500 in 2009

Businesses

1. Upstream Americas searches for and recovers oil and natural gas across the Americas.
2. Upstream International searches for and recovers oil and natural gas outside the Americas.
3. Downstream refines, supplies, trades and ships crude worldwide, manufactures and markets a range of products, and produces petrochemicals for industrial customers.
4. Projects & Technology manages delivery of Shell’s major projects, as well as driving the research and innovation to create technology solutions.

2008 Financial performance 

• Revenue: $458.4 billion
• Income: $26.5 billion
• Capital investment: $38.4 billion
• Investment in research and development: over $1.2 billion (more than any other oil major)
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Fast facts for sustainable development

• $1.7 billion spent on CO2 and renewable energy technologies over the last 5 years.
• In 2008 greenhouse gas emissions from facilities where we operate were approximately 30% below 1990 levels.
• $19 billion spent in 2008 with locally owned companies in low and middle income countries.
• $148 million on social investment programmes in 2008.