Editing Shell USA (section)

==Relationship with Shell plc==
[[File:Phoenix-Shell Oil Company-1925.JPG|thumb|left|The Shell Oil Company Warehouse, built in 1925 and located at 425 S. N. 16th Ave. Phoenix, Arizona. It is listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. Reference #85002073]]
Until the mid-1980s, Shell's business in the United States was substantially independent. Limited direct involvement from the main office in [[The Hague]], [[Netherlands]], and having its stock "Shell Oil" traded on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] were factors. However, in 1984, Royal Dutch Shell made a bid to purchase those shares of Shell Oil Company it did not own (around 30%) and despite some opposition from some minority shareholders which led to a court case, Shell completed the buyout for a sum of $5.7&nbsp;billion.<ref name="hayes">{{cite news| author=Thomas C. Hayes| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/13/business/shell-oil-shareholders-awarded-110-million.html| title=Shell Oil Shareholders Awarded $110&nbsp;Million| newspaper=The New York Times| date=December 13, 1990| access-date=February 27, 2012}}</ref>

Despite the acquisition, however, Shell Oil remained a fairly independent business. This was due in part to complex legal reasons, as Royal Dutch Shell feared that there could be onerous [[legal liability|liability]] problems if closer control of Shell Oil's affairs was exercised by the "parent company". One consequence of this independence was that the Shell logo used in the U.S. was slightly different from that used in the rest of the world. In the 1980s, Shell Oil's independence began to gradually erode as the "parent company" took a more hands-on approach to running the business. The logo used in the United States is the same as that used elsewhere since June 1, 1998.<ref name="priest_272">{{cite book| author=Tyler Priest| title=The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America| publisher=Texas A&M University Press| year=2007| page=272| isbn=978-1-58544-568-4}}</ref>

[[File:Shellgasstationlosthills.jpg|thumb|A Shell [[filling station|gas station]] near [[Lost Hills, California]].]]
[[File:ShellTrueNorth.jpg|thumb|200px|left|A [[Shell Oil Company|Shell]] station in [[Columbus, Ohio]] in 2020. The building, which formerly housed a service station, was converted into a [[convenience store]].]]
In January 2018, Royal Dutch Shell acquired a 44% interest in solar energy company Silicon Ranch, run by [[Matt Kisber|CEO Matt Kisber]]. The takeover was part of the global New Energies project, with the aim of bringing solar renewable options to U.S. customers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/manufacturing/energy/article/20988737/shell-takes-big-stake-in-silicon-ranch|title=Shell takes big stake in Silicon Ranch|website=Nashville Post|date=January 15, 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-04-29}}</ref> The company paid up to an estimated $217 million to take over from former minority shareholders [[Partners Group]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2018/01/15/phil-bredesen-silicon-ranch-solar-shell-investment-up-217-m/1033391001/|title=Bredesen's Silicon Ranch solar company gains Shell investment of up to $217M|website=The Tennessean|language=en|access-date=2019-04-29}}</ref>

[[File:Oil refinery in Martinez, California.JPG|thumb|The Shell Martinez Refinery, which operated in [[Martinez, California]], for over 100 years before being sold to [[PBF Energy]] in 2020.]]

In October 2018, the company installed a 285-foot-high quench tower at the Shell Chemical Appalachia L.L.C. Pittsburgh plant, which transfers heat absorbed by the water circulation process to use across other areas of the site.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2018/10/08/first-look-shell-raises-tallest-structure-beaver.html|title=First Look: Shell raises tallest structure at Beaver County plant|last=Gough|first=Paul|date=8 October 2018|website=Biz Journals}}</ref>