Income of Royal Dutch Shell for the period was $23.9 billion in 2018, compared with $13.4 billion in 2017, Trend informs citing Shell’s Annual Report.

Since the international nuke-related sanctions imposed against Iran were lifted, the oil and gas companies of Europe have been showing great desire to regain their previous places in the Islamic Republic's energy market.

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and the Dutch-British company Shell have agreed on the terms of paying off the giant’s outstanding debt of $2.3 billion to Iran, an Iranian oil official said.

ExxonMobil and Shell companies intend to extend the contract on a project on development of Kazakhstan's giant Kashagan field in the Caspian Sea for another 20 years, a source from the North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC), an operator of the project told Trend Agency.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) sold two high-sulfur oil cargoes to Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL), the biggest state-run Indian buyer of Iranian crude, as supplies from the Persian Gulf state may be disrupted because of global sanctions, Bloomberg reported.

Turkey's state-owned energy company TPAO will sign an agreement with Shell on February 14 for exploration of oil fields in the Black Sea, Turkish NTVMSNBC TV channel said.

Jordan has signed an initial agreement with the British company Shell for exploration of oil and gas fields in the Sarkhan basin in the northeast of the Kingdom, the country's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry said.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and oil giant Royal Dutch Shell's CEO Peter Voser have discussed the prospects of cooperation in Astana on Friday, Trend news agency reported, referring to the Kazakhstan's Presidential press-service.