What we do
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies that aims to meet the world’s growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible.
Our operations are divided into our businesses: Integrated Gas and Upstream, and Downstream, Renewables and Energy Solutions. Our Projects & Technology organisation manages the delivery of Shell’s major projects and drives our research and innovation.
Shell in the UAE
Shell Companies in the UAE are decentralised, diversified entities with interests across the upstream and downstream supply chain.
Yet our operations are bound by one common thread – our business principles – which lie at the heart of everything we do in the country. In fact, they’re the same principles which guide Shell throughout the world.
Our principles are based on the Group’s core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people. They encompass our responsibility to shareholders, customers, employees, to those with whom we do business and to UAE society as a whole. They also aim to foster an environment which is safe and secure, and one which seeks to promote trust, teamwork, openness and professionalism.
We recognise that maintaining the confidence and trust of shareholders, employees, customers and other people with whom we do business - as well as the communities in which we work – is crucial to the Group’s continued growth and success in the UAE.
That’s why our operations in the UAE are a shining example of our business principles at work. The company has built an unrivalled reputation for integrity over almost half a century, and our initiatives to promote sustainable development and community schemes have had a lasting impact on the country’s successful evolution.
Dubai is the regional headquarters of four Shell businesses – Shell Markets (Middle East) Ltd, Shell Exploration & Production, Shell Gas & Power and Shell Global Solutions, which operate as follows:
Oil Products
Making and marketing a wide range of high quality fuels and lubricants in the UAE and beyond.
Exploration and Production
Finding and producing oil and gas in Abu Dhabi and the Middle East, North Africa, Russia and the CIS, signing licence and contract agreements, exploration surveying and drilling, appraisal of results, production planning and development, production operations and maintenance and decommissioning.
Global Solutions
Providing business and operational consultancy, technical services, and research and development expertise to the regional energy industry. For more information on Global Solutions in the United Arab Emirates.
Shell worldwide
Integrated Gas and Upstream (IGU) explores for and extracts crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. It delivers hydrocarbon products from conventional oil and gas operations, deep-water exploration and production, liquefied natural gas (LNG) activities, and the conversion of natural gas into gas-to-liquids (GTL) fuels and other products.
IGU also markets and transports oil and gas, operating the upstream and midstream infrastructure necessary to deliver them to the market.
Downstream, Renewables and Energy Solutions serves around 32 million customers a day at 46,000 service stations and provides products to more than 1 million business customers across 160 countries. It includes Shell’s Marketing, Chemicals and Products, Renewables and Energy Solutions, all underpinned by strong Trading and Supply capabilities.
The business trades and refines crude oil and other feedstocks into a range of products which are moved and marketed around the world for domestic, industrial and transport use. To provide secure energy today and meet the evolving energy needs of our customers, our offer includes:
- Premium and conventional fuels for road, aviation and shipping;
- Convenience retail and electric-vehicle charging;
- Lubricants, bitumen, sulphur and petrochemicals;
- Low-carbon fuels such as biofuels, renewable natural gas (RNG) and hydrogen;
- Power from wind, solar and natural gas;
- Carbon credits, including from nature-based solutions;
- Reduction and removal of emissions through carbon capture and storage.
Projects & Technology manages the delivery of our major projects and drives research and innovation. It provides technical services for our businesses. It is also responsible for providing functional leadership across Shell in safety and environment, contracting and procurement, wells activities and greenhouse gas management.
Our strategy
Powering Progress is our strategy to generate value for shareholders and become a net-zero emissions business by 2050. It is designed to help customers decarbonise and bring benefits for wider society, while respecting nature.
Our strategy is underpinned by our focus on safety, and our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people.
Powering Progress is a strategy that combines our financial strength and discipline with a dynamic approach to our portfolio of assets and products, so we can seize the opportunities of the energy transition.
Shell transforms its portfolio continuously to better meet the clean energy needs of its customers today and in the future.
