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The Upstream History of Royal Dutch Shell Since 1893

The Upstream History of Royal Dutch Shell Since 1893

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Dec 03, 2022
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If you have been following for awhile you may have noticed I have been gathering data on well completions, acreage and producing well count for the oil companies.

If you just joined, here are the links to prior posts.

  • Chevron - HERE

  • ExxonMobil - HERE

  • ConocoPhillips - HERE

But save the links for after this post. I don’t want you to go down those rabbit holes yet.

Join the Chronicle Kids. I post 1x a week.

I started to gather drilling data for SHEL 0.00%↑ or as I still like to call it Royal Dutch Shell Group and ran into a road block.

I cant get well count, acreage or completions prior to the early 80s and for the years 1986-1992.

They used to put out supplementals to their annual reports and I am missing those years.

They look something like this

Ill keep digging.

However what jumps out to me about the data is just how productive their wells are.

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