Royal Dutch Shell: TR-1: Notification of Major Interests in Shares

LONDON, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    TR-1: Notification of Major Interests in Shares
    1. Identity of the issuer or the
    underlying issuer of existing shares
    to which voting rights are attached:          Royal Dutch Shell plc
                                                 (NYSE: RDS.A)(NYSE: EDS.B)
    2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or
    boxes):
    An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
    An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial
    instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares
    already issued to which voting rights are attached
    An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar
    economic effect to qualifying financial instruments
    An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
                    Due to a company reorganization, Capital
                    Group International, Inc. ("CGII") and
                    Capital Research and Management Company
                    ("CRMC") will no longer report relevant
                    holdings separately. With effect from 1
                    September 2012, the holdings under management
                    will be reported in aggregate by the group's
    Other (please   parent company, The Capital Group Companies,
    specify):       Inc.
    3. Full name of person(s) subject to the       The Capital Group
    notification obligation:                       Companies, Inc.
    4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if
    different from 3.):                            See answer to Question 9
    5. Date of the transaction and date on
    which the threshold is crossed reached:        8 March 2013
    6. Date on which the issuer notified:          11 March 2013
    7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or
    reached:                                       Below 5%

    8. Notified details:
    A: Voting rights attached to shares
    Class/type of
    shares If      Situation previous to
    possible using the Triggering         Resulting situation after the triggering
    the ISIN CODE  transaction            transaction
                              Number of
                   Number of  voting                        Number of voting   % of voting
                   shares     rights      Number of shares  rights             rights
                                          Direct Indirect   Direct Indirect    Direct
                                                                               Indirect
    Cl A Ordinary
    (GB00B03MLX29) 6,329,685   6,329,685         6,329,685     6,329,685         0.0992%
      Cl A ADRs
    (US7802592060) 38,582,742 77,165,484         38,318,052   76,636,104         1.2005%
    Cl B Ordinary
    (GB00B03MM408) 92,692,772 92,692,772         91,962,723   91,962,723         1.4406%
      Cl B ADRs
    (US7802591070) 71,640,123 143,280,246        72,054,467   144,108,934        2.2574%

    B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
    Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
                                              Number of voting
                                              rights that may be
    Type of                                   acquired if the
    financial  Expiration Exercise/Conversion instrument is       % of voting
    instrument date       Period              exercised/converted rights

    C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying
    Financial Instruments
    Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
                                                Number of voting
                                     Exercise/  rights
    Type of                          Conversion instrument       % of voting
    financial    Exercise Expiration period     refers to        rights
    instrument   price    date       [xviii]
                                                                 Nominal Delta

    Total (A+B+C)
    Number of voting rights        % of voting rights
             319,037,446                         4.9976%

    9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights
    and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
    The Capital Group Companies, Inc.
    ("CG") holdings

    Holdings by CG Management Companies
    and Funds:                                                      Percent of
                                                                   Outstanding
    Capital Guardian Trust Company       Number of Shares
                                                                        0.096%
    Capital International Limited               6,111,876
                                                                        0.006%
    Capital International SArl                    378,755
                                                                        0.003%
    Capital International, Inc.                   192,214
                                                                        0.004%
    Capital Research and Management               272,184
    Company                                                             4.889%
                                              312,082,417

    Proxy Voting:

    10. Name of the proxy holder:

    11. Number of voting rights proxy
    holder will cease to hold:

    12. Date on which proxy holder will
    cease to hold voting rights:

    13. Additional Information
                                                       Mark Edwards

    14. Contact Information                       Royal Dutch Shell plc
    15. Contact Telephone Number                     +44-20-7934-2817

SOURCE Royal Dutch Shell plc