3. Royal Dutch Shell - $368.1 Billion!


  • Industry - Oil and Gas
  • Location - Netherlands
  • Employees - 112,000
  • CEO - Peter R. Voser
  • Stock Exchange Listing - LSE
Royal Dutch Shell, commonly knows as Shell is a global Oil and Gas company. It is considered as the fifth largest company in the world, and second-largest energy company. It is active in almost all areas of the industry; exploration, production, refining, distributions, marketing, petrochemicals, power generation etc. It also has on-going work in the renewable energy sector; bio fuels, solar, wind and hydrogen power. It operates in 90 countries and produces a revenue equivalent to 3.1 millions barrels per day. It has 44,000 service stations worldwide.The 2010 Gulf oil spill, and the recession took a toll on the company due to insecure market. But it held it’s ground and by end of 2011, it was the largest company listed on FTSE with a market capitalization of £149.2 billion.

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