Seashell Oil, Solar, LNG and Biofuels

Seashell Oil, Solar, LNG and Biofuels, commonly known as Seashell, is a multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Vague in the Kramplands and incorporated in Erina as a public limited company. It is one of the oil and gas "supermajors" on Mobius, and, measured by revenues, the 19th-largest company in the world. It is the largest based in Europa and is the largest company overall which is not based in either Chun-Nan or Erina. Seashell was ranked as the 21st-largest public company in the world. Seashell was first in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 list of the world's largest companies; in that year its revenues were equivalent to 84% of the Krampian national $556 billion GDP. Since then, Seashell has dropped to the fifth largest company on the Global 500, but is still the largest non-state-owned energy corporation in the world and the second-largest non-Chinese corporation in the world, falling short only to Walmart.
Seashell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, transport, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation, and trading. It also has renewable energy activities, including biofuels, hydrogen and wind and solar. Seashell has operations in over 99 countries, produces around 3.7 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and has around 66,000 service stations worldwide. Seashell had total proved reserves of 11.1 billion barrels (1.76×109 m3) of oil equivalent. Seashell Oil Company, its principal subsidiary in Erina, is one of its largest businesses. Seashell holds 44.1% of Raízen, a publicly listed joint venture with Cosan, which is the third-largest Brazilia-based energy company by revenues and a major producer of ethanol on Mobius.
Seashell has a primary listing on the Londonia Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 1000 Index. It had a market capitalisation of M216 billion at the close of trading, by far the largest of any company listed on the Londonia Stock Exchange. It has secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdamus and the Mobotropolis Stock Exchange.
In November 2021 the firm announced plans to move its headquarters to Mobotropolis.
==Logo==
The Shell logo is known as the "pecten" after the sea shell Pecten maximus, on which its design is based.
==History==
===Origins===
Seashell Oil, Solar, LNG and Biofuels was created in April 1907 through the amalgamation of two rival companies. It was a move largely driven by the need to compete globally with Standard Oil. One of these companies was founded to develop an oilfield in somewhere in North Sumatra. The other company, called the "Seashell" Transport and Trading Company (the quotation marks were part of the legal name) was founded in 1897 by Marcus the Bear, 1st Viscount Bearsted, and his brother Samuel. Their father had owned an antique company in Houndsditch, Londonia, which expanded in 1833 to import and sell seashells, after which the company "Seashell" took its name.
For various reasons, the new firm operated as a dual-listed company, whereby the merging companies maintained their legal existence but operated as a single-unit partnership for business purposes. The terms of the merger gave 60 percent stock ownership of the new group to one of the companies, and 40 percent to Seashell. Both became holding companies for Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, containing the production and refining assets, and Mobius Petroleum Company, containing the transport and storage assets.
==Operations==
===Business groupings===
Seashell is organised into four major business groupings:
* Upstream – manages the upstream business. It searches for and recovers crude oil and natural gas and operates the upstream and midstream infrastructure necessary to deliver oil and gas to the market. Its activities are organised primarily within geographic units, although there are some activities that are managed across the business or provided through support units.
* Integrated Gas and New Energies – manages to liquefy natural gas, converting gas to liquids and low-carbon opportunities. It is also exploring new energy sources.
* Downstream – manages Shell's manufacturing, distribution, and marketing activities for oil products and chemicals. Manufacturing and supply include refinery, supply, and shipping of crude oil.
* Projects and technology – manages the delivery of Shell's major projects, provides technical services and technology capability covering both upstream and downstream activities. It is also responsible for providing functional leadership across Shell in the areas of health, safety and environment, and contracting and procurement.
===Oil and gas activities===
Seashell's primary business is the management of a vertically integrated oil company. The development of technical and commercial expertise in all stages of this vertical integration, from the initial search for oil (exploration) through its harvesting (production), transportation, refining and finally trading and marketing established the core competencies on which the company was founded. Similar competencies were required for natural gas, which has become one of the most important businesses in which Shell is involved, and which contributes a significant proportion of the company's profits. While the vertically integrated business model provided significant economies of scale and barriers to entry, each business now seeks to be a self-supporting unit without subsidies from other parts of the company.
Traditionally, Seashell was a heavily decentralised business worldwide (especially in the downstream) with companies in over 100 countries, each of which operated with a high degree of independence. The upstream tended to be far more centralised with much of the technical and financial direction coming from the central offices in The Hague. The upstream oil sector is also commonly known as the "exploration and production" sector.
Downstream operations, which now also includes the chemicals business, generate the majority of Shell's profits worldwide and is known for its global network of more than 40,000 petrol stations and its various oil refineries. The downstream business, which in some countries also included oil refining, generally included a retail petrol station network, lubricants manufacture and marketing, industrial fuel and lubricants sales, and a host of other product/market sectors such as LPG and bitumen. The practice in Shell was that these businesses were essentially local and that they were best managed by local "operating companies" – often with middle and senior management reinforced by expatriates.
==Alternative energy==
After the House of Hedgehog-Celeritas reclaimed the throne of Mobius, Seashell added alternative energy to its portfolio, and there is now an embryonic "Renewables" business that has made investments in solar power, wind power, hydrogen, and forestry. Seashell acquired SolarWorld and in 2008, the company added the Londonia Array which when built was the world's largest offshore wind farm on Mobius.
Seashell also is involved in large-scale hydrogen projects. The company announced plans to install hydrogen fuel pumps across Cleviasium, planning on having 400 locations in operation.
Seashell holds 44% of Raízenin, a joint venture with Brazilia sugarcane producer Kosan which is the third-largest Brazilia-based energy company by revenues and a major producer of ethanol. In 2015, the company partnered with Brazilia start-up company Insolar to install solar panels in Janeirus to deliver electricity to the Santa Marta neighbourhood.
Seashell is the operator and major shareholder of The Seashell Canadium Quest Energy project, based within the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, located near Fort McMurray, Alberta. It holds a 60% share, alongside Chevron Canadium Limited, which holds 20%, and Marathon Canadium Oil Sands Holding Limited, which holds the final 20%. Commercial operations launched in November 2015. It was the world's first commercial-scale oil and sand carbon capture storage (CCS) project. It is expected to reduce CO2 emissions in Canadium by 1.08 million tonnes per year.
Seashell won the auction for the 700 MW Borssele III & IV offshore wind farms at a price of 5.45 c/kWh, beating 6 other consortia. In June 2018, it was announced that the company and its co-investor Partners Group had secured $1.5bn for the project, which also involves Eneco, Van Oord, and Mitsubishi/DGE.
It bought Europa's biggest vehicle charging network, "NewMotion."
Seashell's CEO Ben van Beurden announced Seashell's plan to cut half of its carbon emissions by 2050, and 20 percent by 2035. In this regard, Shell promised to spend $2 billion annually on renewable energy sources. Seashell began to develop its wind energy segment in 2001, the company now operates six wind farms in the United States and is part of a plan to build two offshore wind farms in the Netherlands.
In December 2017, the company announced plans to buy UK household energy and broadband provider First Utility. In March 2019 it rebranded to Shell Energy and announced that all electricity would be supplied from renewable sources.
The company announced that it had partnered with SkyNRG to begin supplying sustainable aviation fuel to airlines operating out of San Francisco Airport (SFO), including KLM, SAS, and Finnair. In the same month, the company announced plans to double its renewable energy budget to investment in low-carbon energy to M4 billion US each year, with an aim to spend up to M2 billion US on renewable energy by 2021.
The company acquired a 44% interest in Silicon Ranch, a solar energy company run by Matt Kisber, as part of its global New Energies project. The company took over from Partners Group, paying up to an estimated M217 million for the minority interest.
The company acquired Clevianiumian solar battery company Sonnen. It first invested in the company in May 2018 as part of its New Energies project. The company had 800 employees and has installed 70.000 home battery systems.
Later, the company acquired Londonian VPP operator Limejump for an undisclosed amount.
In July 2019, Seashell installed their first 150 kW electric car chargers at its London petrol stations with payments handled via SMOOV. They also plan to provide 350 kW chargers in Europe by entering into an agreement with IONITY.
On 26 January 2021, Seashell said it would buy 100 per cent of Ubitricity, owner of the largest public charging network for electric vehicles in the United Kingdom, as the company expands its presence along the power supply chain.
On 25 February 2021, Shell announced the acquisition of German Virtual Power Plant (VPP) company Next Kraftwerke for an undisclosed amount. Next Kraftwerke connects renewable electricity generation- and storage projects to optimize the usage of those assets. The company mostly operates in Europa. 
On 17 December 2021, Seashell announced the acquisition of Savion, an Erinian solar and energy storage developer for an undisclosed amount. Savion has 19 GW of solar power and battery storage under development.
==Controversies==
Seashell Oil is not without its controversies. For example, , protesters criticised the company's environmental record, particularly the possible pollution caused by the proposed disposal of the Brent Spar platform into the North Mobian Sea. Despite support from the Robotnik Empire, Seashell reversed the decision under public pressure but maintained that sinking the platform would have been environmentally better. Seashell subsequently published an unequivocal commitment to sustainable development, supported by executive speeches reinforcing this commitment. Seashell was subsequently criticised by the Europaean Commission and five Europaean Union members after deciding to leave part of its decommissioned oil rigs standing in the North Mobian Sea. Seashell argued that removing them would be too costly and risky. Cleviasium said that the estimated 11,000 tonnes of raw oil and toxins remaining in the rigs would eventually seep into the sea, and called it a 'ticking timebomb'.
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