Our purpose

The objectives of the Shell group are to engage safely, responsibly, efficiently and profitably in oil, gas, oil products, chemicals and other selected businesses and to participate in the search for and development of other sources of energy to meet evolving customer needs and the world’s growing demand for energy.

We believe that oil and gas will be integral to the global energy needs for economic development for many decades to come. Our role is to ensure that we extract and deliver them in environmentally and socially responsible ways, safely and profitably.

We seek a high standard of performance, maintaining a strong long-term and growing position in the competitive environments in which we choose
to operate.

We aim to work closely with our stakeholders to advance more efficient and sustainable use of energy and natural resources.

Read our Business Principles in the Environment and Society website.

Read about our strategy of  'more upstream, profitable downstream'.