Royal Dutch Shell Plc's Annual Report and Audited Accounts for the Year Ended 31 December 2012
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Outstanding as of December 31, 2012: 3,706,535,798 A ordinary shares with a nominal value of !0.07 each. 2,599,337,678 B ordinary shares with a nominal value of !0.07 each. Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Í Yes ‘ No If this report is an annual or transition report, indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file to Section 13 pursuant reports or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. ‘ Yes Í No Note — Checking the box above will not relieve any registrant required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 from their obligations under those Sections. Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Í Yes ‘ No Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Í Yes ‘ No Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one): Large accelerated filer Í Accelerated filer ‘ Non-accelerated filer ‘ Indicate by check mark which basis of accounting the registrant has used to prepare the financial statements included in this filing: U.S. GAAP ‘ International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board Í Other ‘ If “Other” has been checked in response to the previous question, indicate by check mark which financial statement item the registrant has elected to follow. Item 17 ‘ Item 18 ‘ If this is an annual report, indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ‘ Yes Í No Copies of notices and communications from the Securities and Exchange Commission should be sent to: Royal Dutch Shell plc Carel van Bylandtlaan 30 2596 HR, The Hague, The Netherlands Attn: Michiel Brandjes 2 Shell Annual Report and Form 20-F 2012 reports.shell.com About this Report ABBREVIATIONS CURRENCIES $ US dollar ! euro £ sterling CHF Swiss franc UNITS OF MEASUREMENT acre approximately0.004squarekilometres b(/d) barrels (per day) boe(/d) barrelsofoilequivalent(perday);naturalgasvolumes are converted to oil equivalent using a factor of 5,800 scf per barrel MMBtu million British thermal units mtpa million tonnes per annum perday volumesareconvertedtoadailybasisusingacalendar year scf(/d) standard cubic feet (per day) PRODUCTS GTL gas to liquids LNG liquefied natural gas LPG liquefied petroleum gas NGL natural gas liquids MISCELLANEOUS ADS American Depositary Share AGM Annual General Meeting CCS current cost of supplies CO 2 carbon dioxide DBP Deferred Bonus Plan EMTN euro medium-term note EPS earnings per share HSSE health,safety,securityandenvironment IFRIC Interpretation(s)issuedbytheIFRSInterpretations Committee IFRS InternationalFinancialReportingStandard(s) LTIP Long-term Incentive Plan OML oil mining lease OPEC OrganizationofthePetroleumExportingCountries OPL oil prospecting licence PSC production-sharing contract PSP Performance Share Plan R&D research and development REMCO Remuneration Committee RSP Restricted Share Plan SEC UnitedStatesSecuritiesandExchangeCommission TRCF total recordable case frequency TSR total shareholder return WTI West Texas Intermediate reports.shell.com Shell Annual Report and Form 20-F 2012 3 About this Report statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward- ABOUT THIS REPORT looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements of future expectations that are based on management’s current This Report serves as the Annual Report and Accounts in accordance expectations and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks with UK requirements and as the Annual Report on Form 20-F as filed and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or with the SEC for the year ended December 31, 2012, for Royal Dutch events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these Shell plc (the Company) and its subsidiaries (collectively known as statements. Forward-looking statements include, among other things, Shell). It presents the Consolidated Financial Statements of Shell statements concerning the potential exposure of Shell to market risks (pages 99-137), the Parent Company Financial Statements of Shell and statements expressing management’s expectations, beliefs, (pages 159-167) and the Financial Statements of the Royal Dutch Shell estimates, forecasts, projections and assumptions. These forward- Dividend Access Trust (pages 171-174). Cross references to looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases Form 20-F are set out on pages 175-176 of this Report. such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “could”, “estimate”, “expect”, “goals”, “intend”, “may”, “objectives”, “outlook”, “plan”, “probably”, In this Report “Shell” is sometimes used for convenience where “project”, “risks”, “scheduled”, “seek”, “should”, “target”, “will” and references are made to the Company and its subsidiaries in general.