LONDON, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --



Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS.A)(NYSE: RDS.B) announces that it has today issued 25,586,312 A Ordinary shares in relation to the scrip dividend programme for the fourth quarter 2012 interim dividend.

Following this issue and the cancellation of shares previously bought back and announced, the total number of A shares in issuance is 3,797,974,999 and the total number of B shares is 2,599,848,071.  Royal Dutch Shell plc holds no ordinary shares in Treasury.

This announcement will be available on http://www.shell.com/investor.

March 28, 2013

Mark Edwards

Deputy Company Secretary

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