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A Shell gas station near Lost Hills, California

Shell Oil Company is the United States-based affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell (a multinational oil company ("oil major") of Anglo Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest private sector energy corporations in the world). Approximately 22,000 Shell employees are based in the U.S. The company's head office is in Houston, Texas.

Shell Oil Company, including its consolidated companies and its share in equity companies, is one of America’s leading oil and natural gas producers, natural gas marketers, gasoline marketers and petrochemical manufacturers.

Until the mid 1990s Shell’s business in the United States was substantially independent with its stock (“Shell Oil”) being traded on the NYSE and with little direct involvement from the Group’s central offices in London and The Hague, in the running of the American business. This changed in the 1990s when Shell firstly bought out the shares in Shell Oil that they did not own and then took a more hands-on approach in the running of the business.

Shell is the market leader for the supply of gasoline to the motorist through approximately 13,000 Shell-branded gas stations in the US which serve as Shell's most visible public presence. Shell Oil Company is a 50/50 partner with the Saudi Arabian government-owned oil company Saudi Aramco in Motiva Enterprises, a refining and marketing joint venture which owns and operates three oil refineries on the Mexican Gulf coast of the United States.

In 2005 Shell announced the setting up of five gas stations in the Eastern United States which will sell hydrogen as an automotive fuel. [1]

• Shell in the United States website
• Royal Dutch Shell website
• Shell Hydrogen website.
• Motiva website
• Saudi Aramco website

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