Royal Dutch Shell plc: Holdings in Company

LONDON, October 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

TR-1: Notification of major interest in shares

    1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying
    issuer of existing shares to which voting rights
    are attached: (ii)                                           

    Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS.A)(NYSE: RDS.B)
    2 Reason for the notification                                                    State
    An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                                       Yes
    An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may
    result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting
    rights are attached                                                               No
    An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect
    to qualifying financial instruments                                               No
    An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                                  No
    Other (please specify):                                                           No

    3. Full name of person(s) subject to the
    notification obligation:                      The Capital Group Companies, Inc.
    4. Full name of shareholder(s)
    (if different from 3.):                           See answer to Question 9
    5. Date of the transaction and date
    on which the threshold is crossed or
    reached: (v)                                          30 September 2014
    6. Date on which issuer notified:                      1 October 2014
    7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed
    or reached:                                                  Below 4%

    8. Notified details:

    A: Voting rights attached to shares
    Class/type of
    shares

    if possible    Situation previous
    using          to the triggering        Resulting situation after the triggering
    the ISIN CODE  transaction              transaction
                                  Number
                   Number          of
                   of             Voting    Number    Number of voting
                   Shares         Rights    of shares rights             % of voting rights
                                            Direct    Direct  Indirect     Direct  Indirect
      A Ordinary
    (GB00B03MLX29)  27,335,076   27,335,076                  27,335,076              0.429%

        A ADRs
    (US7802592060)  18,233,911   36,467,822                  36,467,822              0.572%

      B Ordinary
    (GB00B03MM408)  70,507,716   70,507,716                  70,507,716              1.106%

        B ADRs
    (US7802591070)  60,337,556  120,675,112                 117,520,468              1.844%

    B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
    Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
                                                          Number of voting
                                                          rights that may be
                                                          acquired if the
    Type of financial    Expiration  Exercise/            instrument is         % of voting
    instrument           date        Conversion Period    exercised/ converted.  rights
    N/A

    C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial
    Instruments
    Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
                                                          Number of voting
                                              Exercise/   rights instrument     % of voting
    Type of financial  Exercise   Expiration  Conversion  refers to              rights
    instrument         price      date        period
                                                                             Nominal  Delta
    N/A

    Total (A+B+C)
    Number of voting rights                              Percentage of voting rights
           251,831,082                                            3.952%

    9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
    financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
    The Capital Group Companies, Inc. ("CG")
    holdings

    Holdings by CG Management Companies and
    Funds:
                                                   Number of Shares Percent of Outstanding
    Capital Guardian Trust Company
                                                          1,713,063                 0.027%
    Capital International Limited
                                                            589,357                 0.009%
    Capital International SArl
                                                            455,214                 0.007%
    Capital International, Inc.
                                                            311,800                 0.005%
    Capital Research and Management Company
                                                        248,761,648                 3.904%

    Proxy Voting:
    10. Name of the proxy holder:
    N/A
    11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease
    to hold:
    N/A
    12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold
    voting rights:
    N/A

Mark Edwards
Royal Dutch Shell plc
+44-20-7934-2817

SOURCE Royal Dutch Shell plc

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