N Scale - Summit Customcuts - SH-002 - Shell Gas Station - Shell Oil
Stock Number SH-002
Prototype Description Shell Gas Station
Road or Company Name Shell Oil (Details)
Reporting Marks Modern Shell Gas Station & Convenience Store kit
Model Variety Gas Station
Specific Item Information: This modern Shell Gas Station & Convenience Store can be found all across the nation. It has 4 modern double-pumps on 2 islands under one canopy and a street sign with logo and prices. This kit includes all building parts, pumps and signs milled in white and black styrene plastic, clear window glazing, and self-adhesive decals. Base/driveway not included. All parts fit together but may need light sanding in joints for cosmetic reasons. The model needs painting. Some model building and painting skills are required. Size: 6 1/2" x 4" x 1 1/ 2" (165 x 100 x 40 mm)
Road Name History:
Shell Oil Company is the United States-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational "oil major" of Anglo-Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world. Approximately 22,000 Shell employees are based in the U.S. The U.S. head office is in Houston, Texas. Shell Oil Company, including its consolidated companies and its share in equity companies, is one of America's largest oil and natural gas producers, natural gas marketers, gasoline marketers and petrochemical manufacturers.
Shell is the market leader through approximately 25,000 Shell-branded gas stations in the U.S. which also serve as Shell's most visible public presence. Shell Oil Company is a 50/50 partner with the Saudi Arabian government-owned oil company Saudi Aramco in Motiva Enterprises, a refining and marketing joint venture which owns and operates three oil refineries on the Gulf Coast of the United States. The Shell Oil Company Warehouse, built in 1925 and located at 425 S. N. 16th Ave. Phoenix, Arizona. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Shell products include oils, fuels, and card services as well as exploration, production, and refining of petroleum products. The Shell Oil Refinery in Martinez, California, the first Shell refinery in the United States, supplies Shell and Texaco stations in the West and Midwest.
In 1997, Shell and Texaco entered into two refining/marketing joint ventures. One combined their Midwestern and Western operations and was known as Equilon. The other, known as Motiva, combined the Eastern and Gulf Coast operations of Shell Oil and Star Enterprise, itself a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Texaco.[6] After Texaco merged with Chevron in 2001, Shell purchased Texaco's shares in the joint ventures. In 2002, Shell began converting these Texaco stations to the Shell brand, a process that was to be completed by June 2004 and was called "the largest retail re-branding initiative in American business history."