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Shell USA
Business · Fossil Fuels · Liquefied Natural Gas
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Shell USA, Inc. is the United States-based wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc, a British multinational oil major. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Shell USA employs approximately 18,000 people in the U.S. and operates across oil and natural gas production, natural gas marketing, fuel marketing, and petrochemical manufacturing, making it one of the largest companies in each of those sectors domestically.
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Trump's Interior Department generates record $164M from Alaska oil lease sale
Through its Shell Frontier Oil and Gas Inc. subsidiary, partnered with Repsol on winning bids in the NPR-A sale; several joint bids exceeded $2 million per tract.
Interior reopens 1.56-million-acre ANWR Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing
Fossil Fuels sector — Reopens up to 1.56 million acres of the ANWR Coastal Plain — estimated to hold up to 11.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil — to leasing across the U.S. oil and gas industry.
Trump creates National Energy Dominance Council chaired by Burgum
Fossil Fuels sector — Fossil-fuel producers (oil, gas, coal) are the largest single class of beneficiaries — the council's mandate explicitly targets maximizing domestic production and coordinating regulatory streamlining across the fossil sector.
Trump restarts stalled natural gas export approvals paused by Biden
Liquefied Natural Gas sector — Liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal developers are the named beneficiary of Section 8(a). At pause-lift, nearly 100 million metric tons per annum of additional planned export capacity was unblocked, with downstream beneficiaries including the developers of Commonwealth LNG, Venture Global's CP2, Cheniere's Sabine Pass expansion, Energy Transfer's Lake Charles, and Sempra's Port Arthur LNG Phase 2.
Shell USA donates $500K to Trump-Vance inaugural
Donated $500,000 to the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee.
Trump order ends EV mandates and state emissions waivers
Fossil Fuels sector — Ends federal EV mandates and state emissions waivers, sustaining demand for gasoline-powered vehicles and the fossil fuels that power them.
Trump order directs agencies to rescind energy-burdening regulations
Fossil Fuels sector — Directs every federal agency to suspend or rescind rules burdening oil, gas, and coal development, easing the regulatory load across the fossil-fuel industry.
Trump order directs EPA to reconsider 2009 endangerment finding
Fossil Fuels sector — Targets the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas rules, relieving the fossil-fuel industry of the emissions standards built on the 2009 endangerment finding.
Trump revokes twelve Biden climate and environmental orders
Fossil Fuels sector — Repeals Biden-era clean-energy and clean-car policies, removing the regulatory support that favored fossil fuels' competitors.