Royal Dutch Shell plc updates on offer for the minority shares of Shell Canada
Limited
17th March 2007

Shell Investments Limited (“SIL”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Dutch
Shell plc, announced that as at 8:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on March 16, 2007
(the “Initial Expiry Time”) 96,985,322 common shares in the capital of Shell
Canada Limited (“Shell Canada”) were validly deposited to SIL’s offer to
acquire, at a price of C$45.00 cash per common share, all of the outstanding
common shares of Shell Canada not already owned by SIL or its affiliates (the
“Offer”).

As the minimum deposit condition under the Offer has been met, SIL has taken
up and accepted for payment all of the common shares validly deposited.  The
common shares taken up and accepted for payment represent approximately 53.1%
of the outstanding common shares of Shell Canada not already owned by SIL or
its affiliates.  SIL or its affiliates now own 740,294,180 common shares of
Shell Canada or approximately 89.6% of the outstanding common shares of Shell
Canada.  Payment will be made on or before Wednesday, March 21, 2007 to Shell
Canada shareholders who have validly deposited their common shares under the
Offer.

SIL also announced today that it has extended the Offer to 8:00 p.m. (Toronto
time) on March 30, 2007.  SIL expects to mail a formal notice of extension to
Shell Canada shareholders shortly.

Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer commented "This is a
positive outcome, and a further step towards building on our strong position
in Canada, using the strengths that only a company of our global scale can
bring. This is an opportunity to create an integrated unconventional oil
business on an international scale."

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