Shell announces sale of Eagle Ford acreage, South Texas

Royal Dutch Shell plc ("Shell") announced today it has agreed to sell its 100
percent working interest in approximately 106,000 net acres in Dimmit, LaSalle,
and Webb Counties, Texas to Sanchez Energy Corp. for approximately $0.639
billion, subject to closing.

The sale includes approximately 176 operated producing wells and associated
field facilities and infrastructure. Net production in Q1 2014 was approximately
24,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, with approximately 60 percent crude
and natural gas liquids.
The agreement is effective January 1, 2014 and is expected to close at the end
of the second quarter of this year.

This transaction is part of Shell's restructuring of its North Americas
resources plays (shale oil and gas) portfolio, to focus on acreage positions
that can reach the scale required by Shell. In addition to this sale, Shell
previously divested its acreage position in the Mississippi Lime in Kansas, its
Utica shale position in Ohio and a portion of its acreage in the Sandwash
Niobrara basins in Colorado as part of this strategy.

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in Woodside Petroleum Ltd.) ownership interest held by Shell in a venture,
partnership or company, after exclusion of all third-party interest.

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21, 2014. Neither Royal Dutch Shell plc nor any of its subsidiaries undertake
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