14th Mar 2006 07:00
Filing of Annual Report and Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2005including Supplementary Information Oil & GasOn March 13, 2006 Royal Dutch Shell plc filed its Annual Report on Form 20-Ffor the year ended 31 December 2005 with the U.S. Securities and ExchangeCommission (SEC).Separately an Annual Review and summary financial statements will be madeavailable to shareholders in mid April, in time for the Annual General Meeting(AGM). The Annual Reports and Accounts will be submitted for approval at theAGM on 16 May 2006.The financial statements contained in the filing have been prepared inaccordance with applicable laws in England and Wales and with InternationalFinancial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as adopted by the European Union. Asapplied to Royal Dutch Shell there are no material differences with IFRS, asissued by the International Accounting Standards Board. The filing has beenprepared under the one-time accommodation provided by the SEC to allow, for alimited period, foreign private issuers that prepare financial statements inline with IFRS to present only one year of comparative information in theirfirst IFRS Financial statements. Tables and disclosure that provide data over afive-year period show 2005 and 2004 on an IFRS basis and 2003, 2003 and 2001 ona US GAAP basis.The notes to the financial statements provide a reconciliation of the balancesheet as January 1, 2004 (date of transition to IFRS) and of the Statement ofIncome for 2004 between US GAAP and IFRS.The filed Annual Report on Form 20-F can be downloaded today from www.shell.com/annualreport or www.sec.gov. The full Annual Report on Form 20-F and AnnualReview websites will be available in html format in mid April.Contact - Investor RelationsUK: Gerard Paulides +44 20 7934 6287Continental Europe: Tjerk Huysinga +31 70 377 3996USA: Harold Hatchett: +1 212 218 3112Contact - Media RelationsUK and International: +44 20 7934 6238/2914/2713/3453The Netherlands: +31 70 377 8750Disclaimer statementThis announcement contains forward-looking statements, that are subject to riskfactors associated with the oil, gas, power, chemicals and renewables business.It is believed that the expectations reflected in these statements arereasonable, but may be affected by a variety of variables which could causeactual results, trends or reserves replacement to differ materially, including,but not limited to: price fluctuations, actual demand, currency fluctuations,drilling and production results, recovery rates, reserve estimates, loss ofmarket, industry competition, environmental risks, physical risk, risksassociated with the identification of suitable potential acquisition propertiesand targets and the successful negotiation and consummation of transactions,the risk of doing business in developing countries, legislative, fiscal andregulatory developments including potential litigation and regulatory effectsarising from recategorisation of reserves, economic and financial marketconditions in various countries and regions, political risks, project delay oradvancement, approvals and cost estimates.Please refer to the Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31,2005 for a description of certain important factors, risks and uncertaintiesthat may affect the Company's businesses. The Company does not undertake anyobligation to publicly update or revise any of these forward-lookingstatements, whether to reflect new information, future events or otherwise.Cautionary Note to US Investors:The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (`SEC') permits oil andgas companies, in their filings with the SEC, to disclose only proved reservesthat a company has demonstrated by actual production or conclusive formationtests to be economically and legally producible under existing economic andoperating conditions. We use certain terms in this presentation, such as"expected producible resources" and "amount of reserves we expect to produce",that the SEC's guidelines strictly prohibit us from including in filings withthe SEC.ENDROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLCRelated Shares:
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