The SHELL PHOTOGRAPHIC LIBRARY

Abstract

Shell companies are involved in two major industries, oil and chemicals, and are active in no less than one hundred countries. The activities themselves are many and varied—oil exploration, oil production, oil transportation (Shell has the world's largest single tanker fleet), oil refining and manufacture, oil distribution and sales. On the chemicals side there are manufacture and marketing. Throughout both fields there is a major research effort to improve methods and products and to find the new products which progress continually demands. Involved in this worldwide operation are over 200,000 people of differing races, nationalities, religions and political affiliations. Shell makes a very positive effort to keep the public informed about its activities through all the means at its disposal, including the Press, publications, employee mazagines, exhibitions, and lectures; and this, of course, results in a constant demand for photographs—photographs to explain, photographs to decorate, photographs to dramatize, and so on. This activity is carried on to a greater or lesser extent in all countries where Shell companies operate, and all of these companies require a source of photographs.