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The Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies (called Shell Oil in North America) (LSE: Shell) (Euronext: Shell) is a major oil company, one of the top four oil companies in the world (along with BP, ExxonMobil, and Total).

The company was founded in 1890 by Jean Kessler, along with Henri Deterding and Hugo Loudon, when a Royal charter was granted by Queen Wilhelmina to a small oil exploration company known as "Royal Dutch."

One of the original Seven Sisters, Shell is the world's third largest oil company by revenue, and a major player in the petrochemical industry and the solar energy business. Shell operates in more than 140 countries across the world, and has five core businesses:

• Oil exploration and production
• Oil products
• Downstream gas and power
• Chemicals
• Renewable energy (Solar, Hydrogen)

Its headquarters are split between the Shell Centre in London, United Kingdom and The Hague, Netherlands.