Payments to industry associations

We typically pay annual membership fees to industry associations. Membership fees may be calculated as either fixed fees for all members, or as a proportion of the annual turnover or production volumes of members. In some cases, we make additional payments, to sponsor research or an event, for example.

We require industry associations to confirm that Shell funds or resources are not used for payments to political parties, political organisations or their representatives, either directly or indirectly.

In the EU and the USA, we report expenditure associated with our lobbying activities, which includes estimated percentages of industry association costs, in line with the requirements and guidelines set out in the EU Transparency Register and the US Lobbying Disclosure Act respectively. These submissions are publicly available, and we provide links to them on our website. There are different rules for which costs should be reported in these two submissions.[1]

Table 2 provides an overview of the payments we made to the 39 industry associations in 2022.

Note: These figures relate to payments made to the industry associations. They include annual fees and, where relevant, additional payments, such as to sponsor research or events. They do not include the cost of seconding Shell employees to work at an industry association for a temporary period. Any payments made in local currencies are converted to US dollars using Shell standard conversion rates that we use for planning purposes. The data shown exclude applicable taxes and may not be exhaustive.