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Innovation at Shell
Human ingenuity and new technology hold the key to unlocking the energy consumers need to power their lives in the years ahead. At the same time they help us to limit our impact on the environment and find effective ways to engage with communities near our operations. We invite innovators to tackle the problems of energy production and help turn their best ideas into reality. With customers and partners, we apply innovative thinking across our businesses, now and for the future.
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Each Shell Chief Scientist contributes internationally recognised scientific expertise.
Our technical centres are located close to our main markets and oil and gas resources across the world.
Can't you stop dreaming up ideas to make things better? Are you a GameChanger?
Our Shell Technology Ventures team invests in companies across the energy sector.
Shell supports the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, which awards £1m for a groundbreaking innovation in engineering that benefits humanity worldwide.
- Innovative thinking
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- Ashoka Changemakers award
- Shining a light on energy savings
- Inspiring the next generation: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
- A new lens for peering into the future
- Sulphur
- Sailing into the future
- Powerful partners: sun, wind and natural gas
- Cooking up a recipe for quicker results
- Extracting heavy oil
- Why fish don't freeze
- Monotowers
- A bionic inspector rolls in
Partnerships with universities, companies and institutes allow us to share knowledge and ideas and drive forward research and development.
Shell's groundbreaking projects supported by human ingenuity help us deliver energy in a sustainable way to meet the world’s growing needs.