Royal Dutch Shell Plc: Issuance of New Shares

LONDON, September 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS.A)(NYSE: RDS.B) announces that it has today issued 22,325,686 A Ordinary shares in relation to the scrip dividend programme for the second quarter 2012 interim dividend.

Following this issue, the total number of A shares in issuance is 3,738,139,035 and the total number of B shares is 2,630,674,202.  Royal Dutch Shell plc holds no ordinary shares in Treasury.

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

September 20, 2012

Mark Edwards
Deputy Company Secretary

ENQUIRIES

Media Contacts:
International
Shell Media Relations +31-70-377-3600

Shell Investor Relations:
The Hague
Tjerk Huysinga  +31-70-377-3996

North America:
Ken Lawrence:  +1-713-241-2069

SOURCE Royal Dutch Shell plc