About the news re. Shell... A little information about Shell to put things into perspective:
Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell, is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom as a public limited company.[3][4] It is one of the oil and gas "supermajors", and, measured by 2020 revenues, the 19th-largest company in the world. It is the largest based in Europe and is the largest company overall which is not based in either China or the United States.[5][6] In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Shell was ranked as the 21st-largest public company in the world.[7] Shell was first in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 list of the world's largest companies;[8] in that year its revenues were equivalent to 84% of the Dutch national $556 billion GDP.[9] Since then, Shell 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.[10]
Shell 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,[11] hydrogen[12] and wind.[13] Shell has operations in over 70 countries, produces around 3.7 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and has around 44,000 service stations worldwide.[14][15] As of 31 December 2019, Shell had total proved reserves of 11.1 billion barrels (1.76×109 m3) of oil equivalent.[16] Shell Oil Company, its principal subsidiary in the United States, is one of its largest businesses.[17] Shell holds 50% of Razen, a joint venture with Cosan, which is the third-largest Brazil-based energy company by revenues and a major producer of ethanol.[18]