Royal Dutch Shell plc : Issuance of New Shares

LONDON, December 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS.A)(NYSE: RDS.B) announces that it has today issued 27,277,014 A Ordinary shares in relation to the scrip dividend programme for the third quarter 2011 interim dividend.

Following this issue and the cancellation of shares previously bought back and announced, the total number of A shares in issuance is 3,668,550,437 and the total number of B shares is 2,661,403,172.  Royal Dutch Shell plc holds no ordinary shares in Treasury.

This announcement will be available on http://www.shell.com/investor.

December 16, 2011

Mark Edwards

Deputy Company Secretary

ENQUIRIES

Media Contacts:
International
Shell Media Relations +31-70-377-3600

Shell Investor Relations:
The Hague
Tjerk Huysinga  +31-70-377-3996

North America:
Ken Lawrence:  +1-713-241-2069

SOURCE Royal Dutch Shell plc

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