Malikai, Shell’s second deep-water project in Malaysia, features the country’s first tension-leg platform and began production in December 2016. (photo)

Upstream

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Malikai, Shell’s second deep-water project in Malaysia, features the country’s first tension-leg platform and began production in December 2016.

Our Upstream business explores for and extracts crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. It also markets and transports oil and gas, and operates the infrastructure necessary to deliver them to market. We also extract bitumen from mined oil sands and convert it into synthetic crude oil.

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Conventional oil and gas
Cash engine

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Deep water
Growth priority

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Shales
Future opportunity

$7.7 billion

Cash flow from operating activities

8 Key projects

announced first production in 2016

2,784 KBOED

Oil and gas production

Inside Upstream

Module part of the Nyhamna Plant expension in Norway. (photo)

Upstream overview

Key milestones and metrics for Upstream.

Employee working at Caroline Gas Plant, Canada. (photo)

Conventional oil & gas

Assets that produce oil and gas onshore, and in shallow and deep-water settings offshore.

The Stena IceMAX sails in French Guiana. (photo)

Deep water

The Upstream growth priority for Shell. We have a range of advantaged deep-water positions.

Shell’s operations in the Delaware Permian Basin in the United States of America. (photo)

Shales

Shell has substantial acreage positions in North America and Argentina.

Worker bundling casing for inspection at the Shelburne Basin Venture, Shore Base Dockyard, Canada. (photo)

Conventional exploration

Shell recorded four notable discoveries and two appraisal successes in 2016. We made 13 near-field discoveries.

The Jasmine development, in the UK North Sea, comprises a wellhead platform with a bridge-linked accommodation block. (photo)

Upstream regional overview

Our Upstream assets and activities around the world.

New production from Kaikias will flow to our Ursa platform (photo)

In Focus: Kaikias

Shell's production in deep-water is set to grow to more than 900 kboe/d by 2020. Kaikias shows how we can deliver value.

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