Royal Dutch Shell has now acquired the UK’s Liquid Natural Gas giant BG Group
[http://www.bg-group.com]

To fund the aquisition has taken on more borrowings and issued more shares. It has become an even larger massive energy corporation

As a result, Shell’s capital now consists of 4,209,649,877 Shell A shares and 3,745,486,731 Shell B shares.
[The total number of Shell A shares and Shell B shares in issue will be 7,955,136,608]

Shell A
http://www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk/shareshop/security.cgi?csi=133655

Shell B
http://www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk/shareshop/security.cgi?csi=133755

Shell now becomes the largest company on the FTSE-100.