It is an English word meaning shell or leaflet. Popular name by which is known to an oil company of origin in the Netherlands, whose initial full name was Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij which translates Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and that after several business transformations took the name of Royal Dutch Shell and British registration. It is also a product brand for the automotive industry of oils, additives and lubricants. Headquarters of The Biomax S Service Stations. To. of Colombia . From 24 January 2022 it will be called Shell plc. It is headquartered in London and its operation is global. Shell was also the name of a British-born Shell Transport and Trading Company that merged with Royal Dutch.
The Royal Dutch Shell, popularly known as Shell ( in English, "shell, leaflet" ») is an oil company created in 1907 by the merger of the Dutch N. V . Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij (known in English as "Royal Dutch Petroleum Company") and the English Shell Transport and Trading Company Ltd ("Valvas Limited Company of Transport and Trade"). Precisely the latter had started its business as an importer of leaflets and seashells for collectors, which were fashionable in nineteenth-century England, to later become a company for the transport of goods, oil and oil; and the new company kept the original logo (with some stylization) showing a scallop leaflet (Pecten maximus) to which they gave the red and yellow colors representative of American California (which was Spanish possession and had the colors of its flag) where the oil wells were. See venera (oyster).
