Royal Dutch Shell Issues New Shares

Royal Dutch Shell plc announces that it has today issued 22,265,954 A Ordinary shares in relation to the scrip dividend programme for the second 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 3,641,273,423 and the total number of B shares is 2,676,187,490.

Royal Dutch Shell plc holds no ordinary shares in Treasury.

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Source: Shell, September 20, 2011