Question: What was the value of assets the corporation planned to sell leading up to 2015?
Answer: US$15 billion

Question: What is a cause of severe environmental issues in the Niger Delta?
Answer: The presence of companies like Shell

Question: Many pipelines owned by Shell in the Niger Delta are described as what?
Answer: old and corroded

Question: Shell has accepted responsibility for keeping its pipelines in what condition?
Answer: new

Question: In contrast to its acceptance of responsibility for keeping the pipelines new, Shell has denied what?
Answer: responsibility for environmental causes

Question: Environmental and human rights groups have created action plans to do what?
Answer: boycott Shell

Question: The name Shell is connected to what company?
Answer: The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company

Question: What was the purpose of the created of The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company?
Answer: to sell seashells to London collectors

Question: What did the younger founder of The "Shell" Transport and Trading company discover while collecting seashell specimens in the Caspian Sea area?
Answer: there was potential in exporting lamp oil from the region

Question: By what year did the company have a fleet of oil tankers operating in the Caspian Sea region?
Answer: 1907

Question: The company operated a refinery on what river for several decades?
Answer: Thames

Question: What is Shell's primary business?
Answer: the management of a vertically integrated oil company

Question: The development of what two types of exptertise established the core competencies on which the company was founded?
Answer: technical and commercial

Question: One of the most important business in which Shell is involved is what?
Answer: natural gas

Question: Each business now seeks to become what type of unit?
Answer: self-supporting

Question: The business model that provided significant economies of scale and barriers to entry is called what?
Answer: vertically integrated

Question: Shell was traditionally considered what type of business worldwide?
Answer: heavily decentralised

Question: Shell operated companies in how many countries?
Answer: over 100

Question: A good deal of technical and financial direction for the upstream came from what entity?
Answer: the central offices in The Hague

Question: What types of companies existed in a few major oil and gas production centers?
Answer: "exploration and production"

Question: Downstream operations currently includes what type of business?
Answer: chemicals

Question: Downstream operations produces what percent of Shell's profits worldwide?
Answer: a third

Question: How many petrol stationsare included in Shell's downstream operations global network?
Answer: more than 40,000

Question: Prior to the 1990s, Shell's downstream businesses were essentially considered what kind of businesses?
Answer: local

Question: In what way did the business paradigm of Shell's downstream operations begin to change?
Answer: the independence of operating companies around the world was gradually reduced

Question: What did Shell announce in April 2010?
Answer: its intention to divest from downstream business of all African countries except South Africa and Egypt to Vitol and "Helios"

Question: What happened in several countries in response to Shell's April 2010 announcement?
Answer: protests and strikes broke out

Question: In June 2013, Shell announced a review of its operations in which country?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: In August 2014, Shell announced it was in the process of doing what?
Answer: finalizing the sale of its interests in four Nigerian oil fields.

Question: What did Shell indicate was a reason for the strategic review of operations in Nigeria?
Answer: assets could be divested

Question: What company was the owner of the 7-Eleven brand in Scandinavia?
Answer: Reitan Group

Question: In what year did Royal Dutch Shell and Reitan Group announce an agreement?
Answer: 2007

Question: How many service stations did Royal Dutch Shell and Reitan Group agree to re-brand?
Answer: some 269

Question: Shell announced it was in the process of doing what in April 2010?
Answer: trying to find a potential buyer for all of its operations in Finland

Question: In October 2010, Shell sold what to St1?
Answer: gas stations and the heavy vehicle fuel supply networks in Finland and Sweden, along with a refinery located in Gothenburg, Sweden

Question: Shell Oil Company's United States business throughout its early history is described as what?
Answer: substantially independent

Question: On which exchange was Shell Oil Company's U.S. stock historically traded?
Answer: the NYSE

Question: Shell Oil Company historically had little direct involvement from what entity in the running of its American businesses?
Answer: the group's central offices

Question: In what year did Royal Dutch Shell make a bid to purchase approximately 30% of Shell Oil Company's shares?
Answer: 1984

Question: What did Royal Dutch Shell's bid to purchase Shell Oil Company's shares lead to?
Answer: a court case

Question: The final investment decision for what was finalized by Royal Dutch Shell in May 2011?
Answer: the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility

Question: The remote offshore Prelude field was discovered where?
Answer: off Australia's northwestern coast

Question: On what developments was FLNG technology based?
Answer: liquefied natural gas (LNG)

Question: The Prelude field was estimated to contain how many cubic feet of natural gas reserves?
Answer: 3 trillion

Question: FLNG technology faciliates what?
Answer: the exploitation of untapped natural gas reserves located in remote areas

Question: What percent of its stake in Woodside Petroleum did Shell sell in June 2014?
Answer: 9.5%

Question: Shell became a major shareholder in Woodside after a takeover attempt was blocked in what year?
Answer: 2001

Question: Who blocked the takeover attempt?
Answer: then federal Treasurer Peter Costello

Question: What percentage of shareholders voted to approve the 2014 buy-back?
Answer: 72

Question: What percentage of shareholder votes was need to approve the 2014 buy-back?
Answer: 75

Question: Shell purchased what in 2005?
Answer: an offshore lease

Question: What did Shell initate after its 2005 purchase?
Answer: its US$4.5 billion Arctic drilling program

Question: What executive initially led the Artic drilling project?
Answer: Pete Slaiby

Question: What caused the delay in drilling after Shell's 2008 purchase?
Answer: the refurbishment of rigs, permit delays from the relevant authorities and lawsuits

Question: Shell's plans to drill in the Artic led to protests from which particular environmental group?
Answer: Greenpeace

Question: What conditions caused the delay of drilling in mid-2012?
Answer: difficult weather

Question: What worsened the situation at the end of 2012?
Answer: the "Kulluk" incident

Question: What amount had Royal Dutch Shell invested in the project by the end of 2012?
Answer: nearly US$5 billion

Question: In what year did drilling in the Arctic region begin?
Answer: 2012

Question: Why was the Kulluk oil rig being towed to Washington?
Answer: to be serviced in preparation for the 2013 drilling season

Question: What caused towing crews and rescue service to lose control while the Kulluk rig was in transport to Washington?
Answer: a winter storm

Question: On January 1, 2013, the Kulluk was grounded off the coast of which island?
Answer: Sitkalidak

Question: Following the incident, which magazine contacted Larry McKinney?
Answer: Fortune

Question: Larry McKinney explained that a two-month delay in drilling could do what?
Answer: wipe out the entire drilling season

Question: Following what event was it uncertain if Shell would recommence drilling?
Answer: the "Kulluk" incident