Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company formed in 1907 through the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company of the United Kingdom. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SHEL). A core component of Big Oil, Shell is the second largest investor-owned oil and gas company in the world by revenue, and among the world's largest companies out of any industry. The company has 44,000 global locations and 12,400 U.S. locations with over 80,000 employees. Shell is a publicly rated company with an S&P rating of A and a Moody’s rating of Aa2. In 2022 Shell reported sharp rises in interim revenues and profits. In fact, this rise in profit for Shell was so sharp, that 2022 was the company's best year, as Shell recorded double the profits from 2021, and the highest profit in its entire history. Shell is headquartered in London, England.