Essays on Royal Dutch Shell

Strategic management

Introduction Merger and acquisition (M&A) is a very common strategy that combines two or more organizations to become a new business. It is agreement between two companies’ to combine their different resources and run operations. In merger, one company is completely absorbed by other company. The merger and acquisition are changes in control of organizations that involve combining the operations of different entities into a single organization. The horizontal merger is a common method that exists between two organizations that are competing in the same industry such as energy sector. It can increase the market share and decrease the ...

1.0 The Company and Its Products Royal Dutch Shell PLC (Shell) is a public limited company, founded in 1907 as the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and registered in England and Wales with headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands (Shell, 2014a, p. 9). After it was renamed in 2005, Shell became the single parent company of two publicly-traded subsidiaries: the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (RDPC) and The “Shell” Transport and Trading Company (TSTTC) (later renamed as The Shell Transport and Trading Company Limited). RDPC handles upstream and downstream production activities, while TSTTC handles transportation and trading. In the upstream segment, the ...

Introduction

Company valuation is an essential area when it comes to determining the value of an organization or business. Such information helps a company to plan its future investments. Additionally, potential investors can rely on company valuation information to determine whether it will be beneficial to invest in a company. This paper seeks to look into a number of company valuation techniques based on the Royal Dutch Shell Company. Furthermore, it provides information on how the efficient market hypothesis affects price movements with reference to Royal Dutch Shell Company. The stock market is especially advantageous because of the liquidity of the securities ...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC commonly known as the shell is second largest energy company in the world whose registered office is in London. It is oil and Gas Company operating in various parts of the world; to stay relevant to climatic and environmental changes it engages in both renewable and non renewable energy. In addition, it is a vertically integrated oil company which engages in all oil activities from exploration to refining and marketing. Apart from its core activities, it has entered into partnership with various international organizations to preserve the environment. The company shares are listed in London stock ...

Executive summary

Royal Dutch Shell PLC commonly known as the shell is second largest energy company in the world whose registered office is in London. It is oil and Gas Company operating in various parts of the world; to stay relevant to climatic and environmental changes it engages in both renewable and non renewable energy. In addition, it is a vertically integrated oil company which engages in all oil activities from exploration to refining and marketing. Apart from its core activities, it has entered into partnership with various international organizations to preserve the environment. The company shares are listed in London stock ...

There is always change taking place within the society and in every organization or firm in business. Dexter Dunphy (2011) calls this “a perfect storm of change” (p.6), which is said to be a “global situation of unprecedented urgency” (p.4). This becomes a crisis to the society, not unless the firm acts on its impulse, to take effective action that would successfully solve the issue being confronted. This leads to actions of sustainability for sustainability. It is these sustainable models and framework that will answer to the call of the changing environment, to prevent crisis from taking place in societies within the ...

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Introduction/Background Shell is a Global Energy Company which operates in 70 different countries. The company employs ninety two thousand (92,000) employees world-wide with its corporate headquarters is in The Hague, Netherlands. Shell operates thirty refineries and produces three point two (3.2) million barrels per day. Shell’s mission statement is: “Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. Our aim is to meet the energy needs of society, in ways that are economically, socially and environmentally viable, now and in the future” (Shell 2014).

Shell operates in sixteen (16) key segments:

- Credit Card Services - Motor Sports - Aviation - ...

Analytical Framework

Section-A There are two different companies which have been taken into consideration for the analysis and the names of the companies are Royal Dutch Shell and Endeavor International Corporation.

Net Present Value Analysis

Net present value (NPV) is a financial tool that is deemed as the difference between current value inflows and outflows. Generally, it is used for calculating budgeting to analyze the probability of an investment on any project that. It is required to analyze the NPV and IRR on the basis of two years like 2012 and 2013. The NPV of Shell Plc. is -250,386 $ while it is, -1, ...

Political risk is the greatest challenge that the business entities and multinational corporations face in the contemporary world. Political instability affects the position of the country in the Global index of doing business. Civil unrest lowers the ranking of the country in the Global Index of doing business. Business in politically unstable countries faces reduced chances of achieving the business objectives. A hostile political climate makes investors insecure and uncertain of the future of their businesses. Businesses seek to protect their investment and to increase their financial returns. To avoid losing their investments, foreign businesses exit the market as ...

Executive Summary for ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips is an American multinational dealing with energy. The Houston, Texas-based company ranks among the world’s Fortune 500 companies and is the world’s largest independent pure-play exploration and production companies. The company explores for, produces, transports and markets bitumen, Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs), Liquefied natural Gas (LNG) and crude oil around the world. ConocoPhillips came into being following the merger of Phillips Petroleum Company and Conoco Inc. in 2002. In 2012, the company had a revenue of US$62 billion, more than 16,900 employees and was producing about 1.6 million barrels of oil per day. It currently ...

(Nigeria vs. Shell)

Abstract

This is a proposal for a research on the topic ‘The Effect of Oil Exploration and Drilling in the Niger Delta (Nigeria vs. Shell)’. It seeks to introduce the reader to the topic of the research in addition to providing a preliminary review of literature. It highlights the proposed methodology and provides a provisional questionnaire for the formed for the purpose of data collection and analysis. 1 Introduction The topic chosen for this research is ‘The Effect of Oil Exploration and Drilling in the Niger Delta (Nigeria vs. Shell)’. The research aims to provide a more comprehensive, unbiased understanding ...

Historical and Organizational Background of Shell

Shell was started in 1833 by Marcus Samuel who was a shopkeeper who sold antiques and later sold shells (van Zanden et al. 2007). It was when he passed away and his sons took over the business that the sons discovered a potential in the selling of oil. Although they struggled at first, a merger between the Shell Transport and Trading Company and the Royal Dutch Petroleum led to the formation of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, enabling these companies to compete with the leading oil company at the time, Standard Oil. By the end of the 1920s, Shell would become the ...

Introduction

The current business environment has created a tough competition among companies each struggles to appear in top ten of the best-practice companies. The Financial Economics uses several factors in determining the suitability of an organization to be ranked among the best practice companies. On the other hand, the best-practice companies share some similarities, and also there are some differences in their operations. A company becomes recognized for its best practices based on the amount of revenues in the respective fiscal year. In addition, the classification is based on the market value that determines the company’s share price as a product ...

Questions and Answers on Bob Davis’ Rise of Nationalism Frays Global Ties: Trade, Environment, Face New Threats; Balkanized Internet

Q1: Why is economic nationalism on the upswing? Why do rising food and energy forces force national governments to take action? What kinds of action are they taking? A1: Economic nationalism has grown due to the global financial crisis that largely affected the US and European countries. The decline of financial markets is due to the lack of state regulations, hence prompting countries to impose regulations on immigration, foreign investment and other globalized market activities. National governments prevented the rise of food and energy commodity prices by instituting and enforcing ...

Introduction

In recent years, the term social corporate responsibility (CSR) has captured the minds of many people. It refers to the activities of corporations in giving back to the society. However, as CSR is being integrated into organizations, the debate on its concepts intensifies. As viewed in different studies, CSR is concerned about legal obligations of companies, which are directed towards the both the environment and society. Because of this fact, there are a number of measures, which are implemented to create an environment that is adaptive to enterprises (European Union, 2011). As indicated in the European Union (2011) website, ...

Executive summary

The aim of this report is to conduct a critical evaluation of the Royal Dutch Shell Company using both qualitatively and quantitatively in order to unveil whether it is a good company to invest in or not. The material for this analysis comes from various online resources, specifically from the company’s website that has the company’s annual reports and financial statements review. Additional information comes from financial websites that has information on stock performance, industry and markets trends.

We decided to choose a company in the oil and gas industry because most of the ten companies in the world by ...

Executive Summary

Fundamental analyses of company shares involve the review of the financial aspects of a company and generate metrics, such as the price and book value of a security or the enterprise value and the EBITDA to value of a stock. Conversely, the technical analysis of a company shares involves the valuing of company shares on the historical information about pricing and volume. In this analysis several assumptions are used: the market value is taken to reflect the demand and supply of the security, the demand and supply are driven by factors such as economic and information analysis which are rational and speculations which ...

Executive Summary

Royal Dutch Shell is a global fossil fuel exploration, production and transport company. The balance sheet of Shell is in the black. They have made successful changes in order to stream line a top heavy employment hierarchy. They are optimistic and positive about their new locations for extracting gas as the easy oil pools from drilling are being used up. The problem I see is that they are using extraction methods that cost more than the efforts for extraction. If pollution clean-up and health costs of local populations are added to the calculations the Shell balance sheet, unfortunately would not show a ...

State

Executive summary Royal Dutch Shell PLC commonly known as shell is oil and Gas Company operating in many parts of the world. London it is second largest energy company in the world whose registered office is in London. It engages in both renewable and non renewable energy. It is a vertically integrated oil company which engages in all oil activities from exploration to refining and trade. However, the company has entered into partnership with many international organizations to conserve the environment. The company shares are listed in London stock exchange and its financial statement are presented in accordance to ...

Financial Costs of the war

The most significant analysis of costs incurred as a result of the Iraq war is that compiled by Professor Stiglitz, a Nobel prize winning economist from Columbia University, and Linda Bilmes, who is a budget expert from Harvard. However, this study is still controversial as it estimates that costs could ultimately reach $3 trillion ($3,000 billion or £1500 billion).

Stiglitz says the figure is so large because it includes costs that official estimates do not, such as the cost of the lifetime medical care of the 65,000 injured American service personnel. He also says that 100,000 of the 750, ...