Shell Oil Company
Houston, TX, US· latest recorded location
Shell Oil Company is named on 7,644 US grants and 3,294 published applications in this corpus. Its most frequent classification is E21B (Earth or rock drilling).
- Granted patents
- 7,644
- Published applications
- 3,294
- Inventors
- 5,583
- Granted in 2026 so far
- 0
- Most recent grant
- 16 Dec 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 169 | 0 |
| 1977 | 184 | 0 |
| 1978 | 172 | 0 |
| 1979 | 91 | 0 |
| 1980 | 154 | 0 |
| 1981 | 157 | 0 |
| 1982 | 137 | 0 |
| 1983 | 162 | 0 |
| 1984 | 183 | 0 |
| 1985 | 206 | 0 |
| 1986 | 203 | 0 |
| 1987 | 160 | 0 |
| 1988 | 214 | 0 |
| 1989 | 375 | 0 |
| 1990 | 268 | 0 |
| 1991 | 272 | 0 |
| 1992 | 275 | 0 |
| 1993 | 233 | 0 |
| 1994 | 238 | 0 |
| 1995 | 172 | 0 |
| 1996 | 138 | 0 |
| 1997 | 129 | 0 |
| 1998 | 148 | 0 |
| 1999 | 135 | 0 |
| 2000 | 133 | 0 |
| 2001 | 128 | 22 |
| 2002 | 79 | 129 |
| 2003 | 101 | 190 |
| 2004 | 171 | 195 |
| 2005 | 122 | 178 |
| 2006 | 189 | 110 |
| 2007 | 139 | 141 |
| 2008 | 137 | 128 |
| 2009 | 143 | 156 |
| 2010 | 178 | 170 |
| 2011 | 127 | 182 |
| 2012 | 135 | 176 |
| 2013 | 190 | 210 |
| 2014 | 211 | 191 |
| 2015 | 185 | 239 |
| 2016 | 163 | 183 |
| 2017 | 115 | 170 |
| 2018 | 106 | 169 |
| 2019 | 115 | 113 |
| 2020 | 117 | 83 |
| 2021 | 66 | 41 |
| 2022 | 18 | 49 |
| 2023 | 0 | 48 |
| 2024 | 0 | 19 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Technology areas
Share of 10,938 documents
- E21BEarth or rock drilling2,084
- C07CAcyclic or carbocyclic compounds1,989
- B01JChemical or physical processes1,835
- C10GCracking hydrocarbon oils1,807
- Y02PLow-carbon manufacturing1,366
- B01DSeparation833
- C08GMacromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds831
- C07DHeterocyclic compounds731
- Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests707
- C10LFuels not otherwise provided for642
Recent patents
- Coatings formed from the deposition of plasma-activated adducts16 Dec 2025US 12,497,698 B2
- Drilling fluid17 May 2022US 11,332,653 B2
- Hydrogenation catalyst and method for preparing the same12 Apr 2022US 11,298,688 B2
- Fuel and engine oil composition and its use12 Apr 2022US 11,299,685 B2
- Wireless monitoring and profiling of reactor conditions using plurality of sensor-enabled RFID tags having known locations29 Mar 2022US 11,288,465 B2
- Isomerization and disproportionation catalyst composition3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257203 A1
- Catalyst composition1 May 2025US 2025/0135439 A1
- Process for pre-treating renewable feedstocks3 Oct 2024US 2024/0325991 A2
- Process for the production of glycols26 Sep 2024US 2024/0317659 A2
- A system and method for the automatic and continuous high-speed measurement of color and geometry characteristics of particles26 Sep 2024US 2024/0319102 A2
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of completing an uncased section of a borehole576US 5,366,012 A1994
- Conductively heating a subterranean oil shale to create permeability and subsequently produce oil437US 4,886,118 A1989
- Heater well method and apparatus369US 6,056,057 A2000
- Formation-tailored method and apparatus for uniformly heating long subterranean intervals at high temperature368US 4,570,715 A1986
- Heat injection process368US 5,255,742 A1993