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Shell Bitumen (Shell International Trading and Shipping)
Shell Bitumen (operated through Shell International Trading and Shipping Company / STASCO; Shell plc; The Hague Netherlands; NYSE: SHEL) is the world's largest global bitumen supplier by volume — producing, blending, and trading bitumen from Shell's global refinery network (Shell Pernis Rotterdam — Europe's largest refinery; Shell Gulf Coast US; Shell Singapore). Shell Bitumen operates dedicated bitumen vessels, terminal infrastructure, and a technical service network for asphalt mix design. Shell's Cariphalte, Bitushield, and Styrelf modified bitumen product lines are used in airport runways, high-traffic motorways, and bridge deck waterproofing. Shell does not provide separate revenue disclosure for bitumen — it is part of the Oil Products / Marketing & Trading segment — but Shell estimates it supplies 25-30 million tonnes/year of bitumen globally across owned and traded volumes.
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Integrated Gas (LNG)
30%Marketing (Fuel, Lubricants, Bitumen)
28%Upstream (Oil & Gas Production)
22%Chemicals & Products
15%Renewables & Energy Solutions
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Did you know2024
Shell plc is simultaneously the world's largest bitumen supplier for road and airport infrastructure AND one of the world's leading developers of EV charging infrastructure (Shell Recharge) AND a major LNG supplier whose gas is burned in the power plants that charge those same EVs. Shell's bitumen surfaces the roads that gasoline-powered cars drive on; Shell's Shell Recharge network charges the EVs that will replace those gasoline cars; and Shell's LNG supplies the gas turbines that generate some of the electricity for those chargers. The world's largest bitumen company is simultaneously building the infrastructure for the technology that will reduce the need for gasoline — and both the petroleum infrastructure and the EV charging network generate revenue for the same The Hague-headquartered company. Shell's own strategy document calls this "compete today, grow tomorrow" — using fossil fuel profits to fund the energy transition.
Shell plc ↗Origin2023
Shell plc (formerly Royal Dutch Shell) was formed in 1907 by the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Netherlands) and Shell Transport and Trading Company (UK). Shell Transport and Trading was founded by Marcus Samuel Jr. in London in 1897 — and the company name "Shell" derives literally from the decorative seashells that Marcus Samuel's father, Marcus Samuel Sr., imported from the East and sold in his London shop in the 1830s-40s. The seashell trader's son became a global oil transporter, and the seashell-named company became the world's largest oil company for much of the 20th century. Shell's bitumen business grew as a natural downstream extension: once crude oil is distilled, bitumen is the residual "bottom of the barrel" that remains after gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel have been extracted. Shell's refinery network produces bitumen as a refinery byproduct that became a significant business in its own right — the seashell-named oil company supplies the material paving the world's roads and runways.
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