THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Shell Transport Buys Back 1.5M Shares At 394.64P (ShellNews.net)

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

August 26, 2004 3:58 a.m.

Posted 27 August 04

Edited Press Release

LONDON -- The Shell Transport and Trading Company said Thursday that on Aug. 25, 2004 it purchased for cancellation 1,500,000 ordinary shares at a price of 394.64 pence per share.

Following the cancellation of these shares, the remaining number of ordinary shares of The Shell Transport and Trading Company will be 9,628,100,000.

Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (N.V. Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij) announces that on Aug. 25, 2004 it purchased 400,000 ordinary shares at a price of 40.99 euros per share.

Following the cancellation (still subject to shareholder approval) of these and other ordinary shares purchased under the buyback programme, the remaining number of ordinary shares outstanding of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company will be 2,075,050,000.