In this publication Downstream includes Oil Products and Chemicals.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Refinery availability of 91% and chemical plant availability of 94%;
- Disposal completed of two French refineries and the Berre-l’Etang refining and petrochemicals plant in France;
- Construction progress on the 325,000 b/d expansion of the Motiva Port Arthur refinery in the USA (Shell interest 50%);
- Construction of the new world-scale ethylene cracker and mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) plant in Singapore (Shell interest 100%).
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2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
2005 |
2004 | ||||
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CCS earnings ($ million) |
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Oil Products |
5,155 |
6,951 |
7,027 |
7,532 |
6,592 | ||||
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Chemicals |
156 |
1,682 |
1,095 |
782 |
1,148 | ||||
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Total |
5,311 |
8,633 |
8,122 |
8,314 |
7,740 | ||||
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Estimated CCS adjustment ($ million) |
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Oil Products |
4,709 |
(3,488) |
(98) |
(2,450) |
(1,005) | ||||
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Chemicals |
561 |
(369) |
31 |
(209) |
[B] | ||||
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Total |
5,270 |
(3,857) |
(67) |
(2,659) |
(1,005) | ||||
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Segment earnings ($ million) |
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Oil Products |
446 |
10,439 |
7,125 |
9,982 |
7,597 | ||||
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Chemicals |
(405) |
2,051 |
1,064 |
991 |
1,148 | ||||
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Total |
41 |
12,490 |
8,189 |
10,973 |
8,745 | ||||
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Downstream net cash |
1,737 |
13,185 |
9,048 |
14,601 |
11,993 | ||||
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Total Oil products sales (thousand b/d) |
6,568 |
6,625 |
6,485 |
7,057 |
7,600 | ||||
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Chemicals sales volumes (thousand tonnes) |
20,327 |
22,555 |
23,137 |
22,826 |
24,160 | ||||
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Refinery intake (thousand b/d) |
3,388 |
3,779 |
3,862 |
3,981 |
4,162 | ||||
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Oil products refinery availability (%) |
91 |
91 |
92 |
92 |
84 | ||||
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Chemicals manufacturing plant availability (%) |
94 |
93 |
90 |
93 |
92 | ||||
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Downstream capital investment ($ million) |
6,014 |
5,275 |
4,334 |
3,443 |
3,691 | ||||
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Downstream capital employed ($ million) |
54,075 |
65,086 |
50,714 |
42,784 |
44,562 | ||||
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Downstream employees (thousands) |
64 |
69 |
73 |
79 |
86 | ||||
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CCS EARNINGS [A] $ billion ![]() [A] Excluding identified items. |
AVAILABILITY AND SALES VOLUMES % volume ![]() |



