FORM 6-K

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington D.C. 20549

REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER

Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16

under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the month of October 2006

Commission File Number 1-32575

Royal Dutch Shell plc

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

30, Carel van Bylandtlaan, 2596 HR The Hague

The Netherlands

(Address of principal executive offices)

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Royal Dutch Shell

Delivery and growth – leveraging a strong portfolio

• Royal Dutch Shell’s third quarter 2006 CCS earnings were $6.9 billion, compared to some $7.2 billion a year ago. CCS earnings per share increased by 1% versus a year ago. Third quarter 2005 earnings included divestment gains of some $1.7 billion related to the divestment of pipeline assets held through Gasunie NV in the Netherlands.
• Excluding the 2005 divestment gain of $1.7 billion related to Gasunie, CCS earnings per share increased by 33% versus a year ago.
• Royal Dutch Shell’s third quarter dividend has been announced at €0.25 per share, an increase of 9% from year-ago levels.
• $2.8 billion, or 1.2% of Royal Dutch Shell shares were bought back for cancellation during the quarter.

Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer commented “This is good performance by the Group. Our earnings have proven to be resilient in the face of rising industry costs and weakening refining margins. Operating performance has been satisfactory. LNG growth has been impressive in the quarter, and our upstream volumes have grown despite the shut-downs in Nigeria”.

Van der Veer added “Cost pressure remains a significant challenge for our industry. We remain focused on making the right portfolio choices to create long-term shareholder value”.

Summary unaudited results

Key features of the third quarter 2006

• Exploration & Production segment earnings were $3,743 million compared with $4,977 million a year ago. The third quarter 2005 included a gain of $1,699 million related to the divestment of pipeline assets held through Gasunie NV in the Netherlands. Earnings reflected higher production volumes and stronger oil and gas prices, partly offset by higher costs versus a year ago.
• Third quarter 2006 production was 3,251 thousand barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day. Excluding the impact of hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico, security issues in Nigeria, and Production Sharing Contract (PSC) impacts from increased oil and gas prices, production increased by around 3% versus a year ago.
• Gas & Power segment earnings were $787 million, compared to $556 million in the same quarter last year. Earnings reflected substantially higher liquefied natural gas (LNG) volumes and continued strong marketing and trading earnings. LNG sales volumes increased by 19% compared to the same quarter last year.
• In Oil Products CCS earnings were $2,160 million compared to $1,726 million in the third quarter of 2005. CCS earnings reflected stronger marketing earnings, higher trading profits and improved refinery utilisation rates partly offset by lower refining margins. Chemicals CCS earnings were $335 million compared to $140 million for the third quarter of 2005, which included net charges of $184 million related to divested assets and various provisions. Operations in Chemicals reflected the start of a heavy planned maintenance programme, which is scheduled to extend into the fourth quarter 2006.
• Gearing (see note 6) was 13.4% at the end of the third quarter 2006 versus, on a comparable Royal Dutch Shell basis, 9.7% at the end of the third quarter 2005. Total cash returned to shareholders in the quarter was $4.9 billion in the form of dividends and share repurchases.
• Third quarter 2006 cash flow from operating activities was $10.1 billion compared to $6.6 billion a year ago. Excluding working capital movements and taxation effects, cash flow from operating activities was $9.6 billion compared to $10.5 billion a year ago.
• Capital investment for the third quarter 2006 was $5.5 billion, excluding the minority share of Sakhalin of $0.6 billion.
• Capital investment for the first nine months of 2006 was $16.0 billion excluding the minority share of Sakhalin of $1.4 billion. That investment includes $3.0 billion of acquisitions mainly related to the acquisition of BlackRock Ventures Inc. in Canada by Shell Canada in the second quarter 2006. Some $1.1 billion of proceeds were realised from divestments year to date, predominantly in Downstream. The industry continues to face significant cost pressures.
• Royal Dutch Shell plc has announced that it has approached the Board of Directors of Shell Canada Limited to indicate its intention to offer to acquire the minority interests in Shell Canada Limited (Toronto Stock Exchange, ticker symbol SHC), for a cash price of C$40 per share. This proposal would value Shell Canada Limited’s fully diluted minority share capital at approximately C$7.7 billion. The Group owns a 78% stake in Shell Canada Limited.

Basic earnings per share (see notes 1, 2 and 9)

Diluted earnings per share (see notes 1, 2 and 9)

Summary segment earnings

Summary segment earnings - continued

Earnings in the third quarter 2006 reflected the following items, which in aggregate were a net charge of $77 million (compared to a net gain of $1,569 million mainly from divestments in the third quarter 2005) as summarised in the table below:

• Exploration & Production third quarter 2006 earnings included a net income of $147 million related to the mark-to-market valuation of certain UK gas contracts partly reversing earlier recorded mark-to-market losses.
• Also in Exploration and Production, charges of $310 million due to the UK tax increase that was effective from January 1, 2006, were included in the third quarter 2006. This amount includes deferred tax balance revaluations but excludes the normal effect on third quarter 2006 segment earnings.
• Corporate included $86 million of tax credits.

These items generally relate to events with an impact of greater than $50 million on earnings and are shown to provide additional insight in the direction of the segment earnings, CCS earnings and income attributable to shareholders. Further additional comments are provided in the section ‘Earnings per industry segment’on page 5 and onwards.

Earnings per industry segment

Upstream

Exploration & Production

Exploration & Production segment earnings were $3,743 million compared to $4,977 million a year ago.

Third quarter 2006 earnings included a net gain of $147 million related to the mark-to-market valuation of certain UK gas contracts and charges of $310 million due to the UK Upstream tax increase effective from January 1, 2006. This amount includes deferred tax balance revaluations but excludes the normal impact on third quarter 2006 segment earnings. The third quarter 2005 included a net gain of $1,765 million mainly from divestments. Excluding these effects earnings were 22% higher than a year ago.

Earnings reflected higher production volumes and stronger oil and gas prices partly offset by higher operating costs reflecting industry conditions and increased pre-development activity levels.

Liquids realisations were 15% higher than a year ago, in line with increases in marker crudes Brent of 13% and WTI of 11%. Outside the USA gas realisations increased by 9% and in the USA gas realisations decreased by 12%.

Third quarter 2006 production was 3,251 thousand boe per day compared to 3,207 thousand boe per day a year ago.

Production compared to the third quarter 2005 included new volumes of 257 thousand boe per day including Bonga (Shell share 55%) and Erha (Shell share 44%) in Nigeria, West Salym (Shell share 50%) in Russia, Champion West Phase III (Shell share 50%) in Brunei and the early start up of E8 in Malaysia (Shell share 50%). In the USA, production rates during the third quarter 2006 at the Mars platform in the Gulf of Mexico were 20% above those prior to the damage caused by hurricanes in 2005.

Excluding the impact of security concerns in Nigeria in 2006, PSC impacts from oil and gas prices, and hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005, production was around 3% higher than the equivalent period last year.

Production from Shell Petroleum Development Company’s Nigerian operations was 185 thousand boe per day (Shell share) lower than a year ago due to deferred production mainly in the Western Delta resulting from security concerns. Whilst efforts continue towards restoring safe operational conditions in the Niger Delta, it is unlikely that the shut-in facilities in Nigeria will be restored in 2006. No firm date can be given for the re-start of the production nor is it possible to predict the rate of ramp up to full production. Restricted access in the area continues to impact the drilling programme for the future, and the progress of new projects.

Portfolio developments:

In the USA, Shell and its joint venture partners announced the development of the Great White, Tobago and Silvertip fields (Shell share between 33% and 40%) via a Perdido regional development host (Shell share 35%), located in Alaminos Canyon, offshore Gulf of Mexico. The facility will be designed to handle 130 thousand boe per day.

In Malaysia, first gas was delivered from the offshore E8 field (Shell Share 50%), which is a key component of the E11 Hub integrated gas project which aims to rejuvenate existing E11 facilities and develop several offshore gas fields over the next years. The E11 hub will have a design capacity of 1.6 billion cubic feet (bcf ) of gas per day.

In New Zealand, first gas was delivered from the Pohokura field (Shell share 48%), which is expected to produce around 40 thousand boe a day at its peak.

In Russia, the Sakhalin 2 project (Shell share 55%) continues to progress in accordance with the PSA. The project is now more than 80% complete and on track for first LNG deliveries in 2008. Activities continue in line with the overall cost estimate advised in July 2005.

 

Gas & Power

Gas and Power segment earnings were $787 million, compared to $556 million in the same quarter last year, which included gains of $94 million mainly related to divestments. Excluding these items earnings were 70% higher and reflected substantially higher liquefied natural gas (LNG) volumes and continued strong marketing and trading earnings.

LNG volumes of 2.94 million tonnes were 19% higher than a year ago, driven by capacity growth at Nigeria LNG (Shell share 26%) and Qalhat LNG (Shell share 11%) and supported by strong operating performance across the LNG plants. Realised LNG prices reflected higher crude prices and continued opportunities for cargo optimisation.

Marketing and trading earnings reflected gas storage optimisation in the USA and overall strong marketing performance across North America and Europe.

Portfolio developments:

In Mexico, the Altamira re-gasification terminal was commissioned with the first ever LNG cargo to be delivered to the country. Shell owns 50% of the terminal and has rights to 75% of the initial capacity of 4.4 million tonnes of LNG per annum. The state power company in Mexico, Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), has contracted to purchase 5.2 billion cubic meters of re-gasified LNG per annum from the facility (equivalent to 3.9 million tonnes of LNG per year).

In Australia, Shell and Anglo American signed a joint development agreement to further advance the Monash Energy coal-to-liquids project. This potential development involves the gasification of Anglo American’s brown coal from Victoria’s Latrobe Valley for conversion into transportation fuels, including virtually sulphur-free synthetic diesel, using Shell’s proprietary coal gasification and gas-to-liquids technologies.

 

Downstream

 

Oil Products

 

Oil Products segment earnings were $1,214 million compared to $3,439 million for the same period last year.

Third quarter CCS earnings were $2,160 million compared to $1,726 million in the third quarter of 2005.

Higher CCS earnings reflected stronger marketing earnings, higher trading profits and improved refinery utilisation rates partly offset by lower refining margins.

In Manufacturing, Supply and Distribution, industry refining margins declined in all regions from the hurricane driven highs of the third quarter of 2005. Refinery utilisation on an Equivalent Distillation Capacity (EDC) basis increased to 81.6% compared to hurricane-impacted utilisation levels of 77.8% in the third quarter of 2005.

In Marketing including Lubricants and B2B, earnings increased compared to the same period a year ago. Increased earnings reflected increased margins for retail, commercial fuels, marine and bitumen. Marketing sales volumes declined 4.6% compared to volumes in the third quarter of 2005 including the impact from divested volumes (2.0%) and rationalised B2B volumes (0.9%). Trading continued to make a significant contribution to earnings in the third quarter of 2006.

Portfolio developments:

In China, Shell acquired a 75% share in Beijing Tongyi Petroleum Chemical Company Limited and Xianyang Tongyi Petroleum Chemical Company Limited, which produce and market China’s leading independent lubricant brand. The transaction makes Shell the leading international energy company marketing lubricants in China and increases Shell’s global finished lubricants volume by 8%.

Sales of Shell’s retail and lubricants marketing assets in Puerto Rico and distribution and marketing assets in Bermuda were completed. In the USA the sale of a residential and small commercial natural gas marketing business was completed in the third quarter. The agreed sales of various distribution and marketing assets in the Pacific Islands, are expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Chemicals

Chemicals segment earnings were $251 million compared to $321 million for the same period last year.

Third quarter 2006 CCS earnings were $335 million compared to $140 million for the third quarter of 2005, which included net charges of $184 million related to divested assets and various provisions.

Sales volumes and operating rates were unchanged compared to the same quarter a year ago. Operations in the third quarter 2006 reflected the start of a heavy planned maintenance programme in the USA and Europe, which impacted operating rates by some 6 percentage points. The programme is scheduled to extend into the fourth quarter 2006. Earnings reflected higher margins and improved earnings from equity-accounted investments partly offset by higher costs and lower trading earnings. In China, the Nanhai joint venture (Shell share 50%) continued to make good progress with production and sales volumes increasing progressively. The third quarter 2005 was impacted by hurricane-related downtime in the USA and supply constraints, which reduced operating rates by some 7 percentage points.

 

Other Industry and Corporate segments

 

Third quarter Other Industry and Corporate segment results were a gain of $260 million, which included tax credits of $86 million in Corporate. This compared to a gain of $97 million in the third quarter 2005, which included impairment charges of $60 million in Other Industry segments.

In the third quarter 2006 in the Corporate segment, net income from insurance and taxation effects, was partly offset by a reduction in net interest gains (including higher interest expense related to equity accounted investments) and negative results from currency movements.

 

Note

All amounts shown throughout this report are unaudited.

Fourth quarter results for 2006 are expected to be announced on February 1, 2007. First quarter results for 2007 are expected to be announced on May 3, 2007, second quarter results for 2007 are expected to be announced on July 26, 2007 and third quarter results are expected to be announced on October 25, 2007.

In this Report “Group” is defined as Royal Dutch Shell together with all of its consolidated subsidiaries. The expressions “Shell”, “Group”, “Shell Group” and “Royal Dutch Shell” are sometimes used for convenience where references are made to the Group or Group companies in general. Likewise, the words “we”, “us” and “our” are also used to refer to Group companies in general or to those who work for them. These expressions are also used where no useful purpose is served by identifying the particular company or companies. The expression “Group companies” as used in this Report refers to companies in which Royal Dutch Shell either directly or indirectly has control, by having either a majority of the voting rights or the r ight to exercise a controlling influence. The companies in which the Group has significant influence but not control are referred to as “associated companies” or “associates” and companies in which the Group has joint control are referred to as “jointly controlled entities”. In this Report, associates and jointly controlled entities are also referred to as “equity accounted investments”.

This document contains forward-looking statements concerning the financial condition, results of operations and businesses of Royal Dutch Shell. All statements other than statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements of future expectations that are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements. Forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements concerning the potential exposure of Royal Dutch Shell to market risks and statements expressing management’s expectations, beliefs, estimates, forecasts, projections an d assumptions. These forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as ‘‘anticipate’’, ‘‘believe’’, ‘‘could’’, ‘‘estimate’’, ‘‘expect’’, ‘‘intend’’, ‘‘may’’, ‘‘plan’’, ‘‘objectives’’, ‘‘outlook’’, ‘‘probably’’, ‘‘project’’, ‘‘will’’, ‘‘seek’’, ‘‘target’’, ‘‘risks’’, ‘‘goals’’, ‘‘should’’ and similar terms and phrases. There are a number of factors that could affect the future operations of Royal Dutch Shell and could cause those results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements included in this Report, including (without limitation): (a) price fluctuations in crude oil and natural gas; (b ) changes in demand for the Group’s products; (c) currency fluctuations; (d) drilling and production results; (e) reserve estimates; (f) loss of market and industry competition; (g) environmental and physical risks; (h) risks associated with the identification of suitable potential acquisition properties and targets, and successful negotiation and completion of such transactions; (i) the risk of doing business in developing countries and countries subject to international sanctions; (j) legislative, fiscal and regulatory developments including potential litigation and regulatory effects arising from recategorisation of reserves; (k) economic and financial market conditions in various countries and regions; (l) political risks, project delay or advancement, approvals and cost estimates; and (m) changes in trading conditions. All forward-looking statements contained in this Report are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this section. Readers shoul d not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of this Report. Neither Royal Dutch Shell nor any of its subsidiaries undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or other information. In light of these risks, results could differ materially from those stated, implied or inferred from the forward-looking statements contained in this Report.

Please refer to the Annual Report and Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2005 for a description of certain important factors, risks and uncertainties that may affect the Company's businesses.

Cautionary Note to US Investors:

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permits oil and gas companies, in their filings with the SEC, to disclose only proved reserves that a company has demonstrated by actual production or conclusive formation tests to be economically and legally producible under existing economic and operating conditions. We use certain terms in this announcement, such as "barrels of oil equivalent in place" that the SEC's guidelines strictly prohibit us from including in filings with the SEC. U.S. Investors are urged to consider closely the disclosure in our Form 20-F, File No 1-32575 and disclosure in our Forms 6-K file No 1-32575, available on the SEC’s website www.sec.gov. You can also obtain these forms from the SEC by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.

October 26, 2006

 

Appendix 1: Royal Dutch Shell financial report and tables

Statement of income (see note 1)

Earnings by industry segment(see notes 2 and 5)

Summarised balance sheet (see notes 1 and 7)

Summarised statement of cash flows (see notes 1 and 8)

Operational data – Upstream

Operational data - Downstream

Capital investment

Notes

NOTE 1. Accounting policies and basis of presentation

The quarterly financial statements are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the financial statements are also in accordance with IFRS as adopted by the European Union.

The Group's accounting policies are unchanged from those set out in Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements of Royal Dutch Shell plc in the Annual Report and Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2005 on pages 110 to 113.

In the third quarter 2005 Royal Dutch Shell plc became the Parent Company of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (Royal Dutch) and The ‘‘Shell’’ Transport and Trading Company, p.l.c. (Shell Transport) by acquiring all outstanding shares of Shell Transport and approximately 98.5% of the outstanding shares of Royal Dutch.

The comparative periods represent information for Royal Dutch Shell as if it had acquired 100% of Royal Dutch and Shell Transport. For financial reporting purposes, the 1.5% minority holders in Royal Dutch were shown in the Royal Dutch Shell consolidated financial statements as a minority interest in Royal Dutch Shell from August 10, 2005, as prior to that time those holders had a right to participate in the Exchange Offer and receive Royal Dutch Shell shares.

The minority in Royal Dutch ceased to exist as of December 21, 2005 as a result of the merger of Royal Dutch and Shell Petroleum NV.

These financial statements give retroactive effect for all periods presented prior to the Unification Transaction, which has been accounted for using a carry-over basis of the historical costs of the assets and liabilities of Royal Dutch, Shell Transport and other companies comprising the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. The interest of the minority shareholders in Royal Dutch was accounted for using a carry-over basis of the historical costs of its consolidated assets and liabilities.

Royal Dutch Shell will discontinue the publication of the Annual Report and Form 20-F in Dutch. This document will now only be published in English. The Annual Review and Summary Financial Statements, a summary of the Annual Report and Form 20-F, will continue to be published in both English and Dutch.

NOTE 2. Earnings on an estimated current cost of supplies (CCS) basis

To facilitate a better understanding of underlying business performance, the financial results are also analysed on an estimated current cost of supplies (CCS) basis as applied for the Oil Products and Chemicals segment earnings. Earnings on an estimated current cost of supplies basis provide useful information concerning the effect of changes in the cost of supplies on Royal Dutch Shell’s results of operations and is a measure to manage the performance of the Oil Products and Chemicals segments but is not a measure of financial performance under IFRS.

On this basis, Oil Products and Chemicals segment cost of sales of the volumes sold during the period is based on the cost of supplies during the same period after making allowance for the estimated tax effect, instead of use of the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method of inventory accounting. Earnings calculated on this basis do not represent an application of the last-in, first-out (LIFO) inventory basis and do not reflect any inventory draw down effects. The adjustment for the Chemicals segment was implemented in Q1 2006, historic periods have been restated accordingly.

NOTE 3. Discontinued operations

Income/(loss) from discontinued operations, which comprises gains and losses on disposals and results of operations for the period, is provided in the statement of income in accordance with IFRS for separate major lines of business or geographical area of operations.

Earnings by industry segment relating to discontinued operations, included within the segment earnings on page 13, are as follows:

Basic earnings per share for the third quarter 2006 for discontinued operations were nil.

NOTE 4. Return on average capital employed (ROACE)

ROACE on an income basis is the sum of the current and previous three quarters’ income attributable to shareholders plus interest, less tax and minority interest as a percentage of the average of Royal Dutch Shell’s share of closing capital employed and the opening capital employed a year earlier. The tax rate and the minority interest components are derived from calculations at the published segment level.

Components of the calculation ($ million):

 

NOTE 5. Earnings by industry segment

Operating segment results are before deduction of minority interest and also exclude interest and other income of a non-operational nature, interest expense, non-trading currency exchange effects and tax on these items, which are included in the results of the Corporate segment. Operating segment results are after tax and include equity accounted investments. Segment results in accordance with International Accounting Standard 14 “Segment Reporting” will be disclosed in Royal Dutch Shell’s 2006 Annual Report and Form 20-F, with a reconciliation to the basis as presented here.

NOTE 6. Gearing

The Group aims to maintain an efficient balance sheet with an average gearing ratio over time of between 20% and 25%. The numerator and denominator in the gearing calculation used by the Group is calculated by adding to reported debt and equity certain off-balance sheet obligations such as operating lease commitments and unfunded retirement benefits which it believes to be in the nature of incremental debt, and deducting cash and cash equivalents held in excess of amounts required for operational purposes.

Components of the calculation ($ million):

 

NOTE 7. Equity

Total equity comprises equity attributable to shareholders of Royal Dutch Shell and to the minority interests. Other reserves comprises the capital redemption reserve, share premium reserve, merger reserve, share-based compensation reserve, cumulative currency translation differences, unrealised gains/(losses) on securities and unrealised gains/(losses) on cash flow hedges.

 

NOTE 8. Statement of cash flows

This statement reflects cash flows of Royal Dutch Shell and its subsidiaries as measured in their own currencies, which are translated into US dollars at average rates of exchange for the periods and therefore exclude currency translation differences except for those arising on cash and cash equivalents.

Cash from operating activities excluding net working capital movements, current taxation and taxation paid is calculated using the following line items from the cash flow statement:

 

NOTE 9. Earnings per Royal Dutch Shell share

The total number of Royal Dutch Shell shares in issue at the end of the period was 6,497.2 million. Royal Dutch Shell reports earnings per share on a basic and on a diluted basis, based on the weighted average number of Royal Dutch Shell (combined A and B) shares outstanding. Shares held in respect of share options and other incentive compensation plans are excluded in determining basic earnings per share.

Basic earnings per share calculations are based on the following weighted average number of shares (millions):

Diluted earnings per share calculations are based on the following weighted average number of shares (millions). This adjusts the basic number of shares for all share options currently in-the-money.

Basic shares at the end of the following periods are (millions):

One American Depository Receipt (ADR) is equal to two Royal Dutch Shell shares.

NOTE 10. Contingencies and litigation

The litigation relating to the 2004 recategorisation of certain hydrocarbon reserves is still at an early stage and subject to substantial uncertainties concerning the outcome of material factual and legal issues. Potential damages, if any, in a fully litigated securities class action would depend on the losses caused by the alleged wrongful conduct that would be demonstrated by individual class members in their purchases and sales of Royal Dutch and Shell Transport shares during the relevant class period. Based on the current status of the litigation, however, management of the Shell Group established a $500 million provision in the second quarter 2006. This amount reflects what Shell is prepared to pay to the plaintiffs to resolve this litigation. No settlement has been reached in the matter. Management of the Sh ell Group will review this determination as the litigation progresses.

 

 

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Royal Dutch Shell plc
(Registrant)

By: /s/ M.C.M. Brandjes

Name: M.C.M. Brandjes Title: Company Secretary

Date: 26 October 2006