Royal Dutch Shell plc: Transaction in Own Shares

LONDON, Dec. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Dutch Shell plc (the 'Company') (NYSE: RDS.A) (NYSE: RDS.B) announces that on 17(th) December 2018 it purchased the following number of "A" Shares for cancellation.

Aggregated information on "A" shares purchased according to trading venues:

     Date of purchase  Number of "A" shares purchased Highest price paid   Lowest price paid
     (GBp)   Volume weighted average price
                                                             (GBp)                                     paid per share
            (GBp)    
         Venue

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     December 17, 2018                      1,553,591              2348.00                    2314.00                          2328.62   
            LSE

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     December 17, 2018                        449,074              2348.00                    2317.00                          2332.79   Cboe Europe Equities
                                                                                                                                             (CXE)

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     December 17, 2018                        441,092              2348.00                    2314.50                          2326.24   Cboe Europe Equities
                                                                                                                                             (BXE)

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These share purchases form part of the second tranche of the Company's existing share buy-back programme previously announced on July 26, 2018. The Company announced the second tranche of its share buyback programme on November 1, 2018.

In respect of this programme, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc will make trading decisions in relation to the Company's securities independently of the Company for a period from November 1, 2018 up to and including January 28, 2019.

Any such share purchases will be effected within certain pre-set parameters, and in accordance with the Company's general authority to repurchase shares, Chapter 12 of the Listing Rules and Article 5 of the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014/EU dealing with buy-back programmes and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052.

In accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014/EU, a full breakdown of the individual trades made by Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc on behalf of the Company as a part of the buy-back programme is detailed below.

LEI number of Royal Dutch Shell plc: 21380068P1DRHMJ8KU70

Classification: Acquisition or disposal of the issuer's own shares

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