SHELL USA, INC. (FKA SHELL OIL COMPANY)

Lobbying for SHELL USA, INC. (FKA SHELL OIL COMPANY)

Filing 1st Quarter - Report

Reporting period

1st Quarter 2025

Jan 1 - Mar 31 · Posted Apr 17, 2025

Expenses

$1,430,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

District of Columbia

Official filing document

Government bodies contacted 8

Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
Energy, Dept of
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Interior, Dept of (DOI)
SENATE
State, Dept of (DOS)
Treasury, Dept of

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Bills named in this filing 2

S 524
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
S 4753
Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024

Lobbying activity 7

Trade (domestic/foreign)

Issues related to Shell's role in the commercial development of natural gas in the Dragon gas field offshore Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago pursuant to a license issued by OFAC; Issues related to trade policy, including proposed action on 301 investigation on maritime shipping, 232 tariffs, and potential IEEPA tariffs; Issues related to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries

Issues related to vessel restrictions for the U.S. coast guard; Issues related to the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) Biological Opinion and the Gulf of Mexico; S. 524 - Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025.

Environment/Superfund

Issues related to methane regulation modifications to protect LNG export; Issues related to carbon border adjustment.

Foreign Relations

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (P.L. 118-31), Section 804 Implementation.

Energy/Nuclear

Issues related to the development of offshore wind, including permitting; Issues related to administrative action on wind energy, including Presidential Memo - Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Governments Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects; Issues related to LNG Pause; Issues related to LNG development; Issues related to energy load growth and competitive power markets; Issues related to Dodd-Frank Swap dealer rules and the rule of power markets; Issues related to solar development including agrivoltaics; S.4753 - Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 (118th Congress).

Natural Resources

Issues related to OCS leasing policy and U.S. LNG export policy; S. 4753 - Energy Permitting Reform Act (118th Congress) and Continuing Resolution; Issues related to outer continental shelf leasing.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Issues related to the inclusion of 45q, 45v, and 45z tax credits in budget reconciliation; Issues related to 45v final implementation guidance; Issues related to BEAT and C-SALT; Issues related to the expiration and extension of provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) (P.L. 115-97) and the Inflation Reduction Act (P.L. 117-169) for energy development, including PTC and ITC.

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.