Shell earns $1 billion a year from US crude trading, court filing shows
By Arathy Somasekhar and Ron Bousso HOUSTON (Reuters) – Financial details of Shell’s vast oil and gas trading business are some of the company’s closest-held secrets. Documents in a lawsuit filed by a former employee, however, revealed its U.S. crude trading regularly earns around $1 billion every year. Testimony by a former head of Shell’s