Asiatic Petroleum Company

In 1903, the Shell Transport and Trading Company and Royal Dutch merged together into the enterprise called Asiatic Petroleum Company. The partnership between these two enterprises worked so well that four years later, in 1907, it was extended to operations world-wide, with the creation of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. The two parent companies retained their separate businesses and own the Group, with more than 1,700 active companies, in the proportion of 60% to Royal Dutch Petroleum and 40% to Shell Transport and Trading Company. 

The story of the chemical activity at Royal Dutch begins in 1905, when Henry Deterding, the general manager of the Asiatic Petroleum Company - the sales cartel of the oil producers in the Dutch Indies, which included the British Shell... 

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