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Shell plc (the ‘Company’) announces that on 25 February 2025 it purchased the following number of Shares for cancellation.
Aggregated information on Shares purchased according to trading venue:
Date of purchase
Number of Shares purchased
Highest price paid
Lowest price paid
Volume weighted average price paid per share
Venue
Currency
25/02/2025
850,000
£ 26.5600
£ 26.2250
£ 26.4058
LSE
GBP
25/02/2025
100,000
£ 26.5400
£ 26.2350
£ 26.4148
Chi-X (CXE)
GBP
25/02/2025
150,000
£ 26.5600
£ 26.2250
£ 26.3767
BATS (BXE)
GBP
25/02/2025
660,000
€ 32.2750
€ 31.8400
€ 32.0701
XAMS
EUR
25/02/2025
150,000
€ 32.2750
€ 31.8550
€ 32.0324
CBOE DXE
EUR
25/02/2025
0
-
-
-
TQEX
EUR
These share purchases form part of the on- and off-market limbs of the Company's existing share buy-back programme previously announced on 30 January 2025.
In respect of this programme, Natixis will make trading decisions in relation to the securities independently of the Company for a period from 30 January 2025 up to and including 25 April 2025.
The on-market limb will be effected within certain pre-set parameters and in accordance with the Company’s general authority to repurchase shares on-market. The off-market limb will be effected in accordance with the Company’s general authority to repurchase shares off-market pursuant to the off-market buyback contract approved by its shareholders and the pre-set parameters set out therein. The programme will be conducted in accordance with Chapter 9 of the UK Listing Rules and Article 5 of the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014/EU dealing with buy-back programmes (“EU MAR”) and EU MAR as “onshored” into UK law from the end of the Brexit transition period (at 11:00 pm on 31 December 2020) through the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020), and as amended, supplemented, restated, novated, substituted or replaced by the Financial Services Act, 2021 and relevant statutory instruments (including, The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (SI 2019/310)), from time to time (“UK MAR”) and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 (the “EU MAR Delegated Regulation”) and the EU MAR Delegated Regulation as “onshored” into UK law from the end of the Brexit transition period (at 11:00 pm on 31 December 2020) through the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020), and as amended, supplemented, restated, novated, substituted or replaced by the Financial Services Act, 2021 and relevant statutory instruments (including, The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (SI 2019/310)), from time to time.
In accordance with EU MAR and UK MAR, a breakdown of the individual trades made by Natixis on behalf of the Company as a part of the buy-back programme is detailed below.
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LEI number of Shell plc: 21380068P1DRHMJ8KU70
Classification: Acquisition or disposal of the issuer’s own shares