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The Shell Centre in London is the global headquarters of oil major Shell plc. It is located on Belvedere Road in the London Borough of Lambeth . It is a prominent feature on the South Bank of the River Thames near County Hall , and now forms the backdrop to the London Eye .
In the 1950s it was one of three main Shell research sites in the UK, the others being in Kent and Buckinghamshire. In 1962, Shell spent £25m on research, with 19 worldwide research centres, 8 in Europe, and 11 in the US.
Former Shell Research and Technology Centre, Amsterdam, c. 2000 A Shell JET A refueller truck on the ramp at Vancouver International Airport, 2005. In 2002, Shell acquired Pennzoil-Quaker State through its American division for US$22 per share, or about US$1.8 billion. Through its acquisition of Pennzoil, Shell became a descendant of Standard Oil.
Shell-Mex & BP was a joint venture company created by Shell and British Petroleum in 1932, when they decided to merge their United Kingdom marketing operations. [4] Upon the UK marketing separation of Shell and BP in 1976, Shell Mex House became the head office of Shell UK, which was Shell's UK operating company.
The Lensbury is a conference centre, hotel, and leisure facility located on the banks of the Thames in Teddington, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.The Lensbury was founded in 1920, as a club for employees of the oil company Shell and was known as the "Lensbury Club" until the 1990s.
Shell injected nearly $1.5 billion in cash and credit into its British energy retail business in 2022 to help it weather huge volatility in power prices that caused the collapse of several rival ...
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Hugh Burkhardt (4 April 1935 – 3 February 2024) was a British theoretical physicist and educational designer. He was Director of The Shell Centre for Mathematical Education at the University of Nottingham, UK from 1976 to 1992 and is the creator of ISDDE, the International Society for Design and Development in Education.