London — Royal Dutch Shell aims to expand marketing operations in Asia and wants 20% of sales from its petrol stations worldwide to come from recharging electric vehicles and low carbon fuels by 2025, as the world shifts away from crude. The Anglo-Dutch firm, with 43,000 fuel stations in 80 countries, aims to expand in China and India, as well as Mexico, where it sees fossil fuel growth in the next decade, John Abbott, the head of refining, trading and marketing, said. But he said Shell remained focused on a future of where demand for alternatives to petrol and diesel cars would rise. "Shell will be part of leading the de-carbonising of the energy system. We have to accept that is the way the world is going," he said in an interview in London. He said Shell, the world’s top roadside fuel station operator, was "working back from the customer, which is very relevant as we go through the energy transition". Britain and France have said they will ban sales of new petrol and diesel vehic...
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