Royal Dutch Shell plc: Issuance of New Shares

LONDON, March 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Royal Dutch Shell plc (the "Company") (NYSE: RDS.A) (NYSE: RDS.B) announces that it has today issued 47,791,678 A ordinary shares of €0.07 each in relation to the scrip dividend programme for the fourth quarter 2016 interim dividend.

Following this issue, the total number of A shares in issue is 4,476,695,491 ordinary shares of €0.07 each and the total number of B shares is 3,745,486,731 ordinary shares of €0.07 each. A shares and B shares have identical voting rights. The Company holds no ordinary shares in Treasury.

The total number of A shares and B shares in issue is 8,222,182,222 ordinary shares of €0.07 each and this figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Royal Dutch Shell plc under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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

March 27, 2017

Mark Edwards

Deputy Company Secretary

LEI number of Royal Dutch Shell plc: 21380068P1DRHMJ8KU70

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