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Shell stations, and how many are actually counted

Shell is the chain this map meets most often, and in more countries than any other — including under spellings that are not the Latin word. In Morocco the forecourts are tagged شل, in Pakistan شیل. Refuelia counts those as Shell, because they are.

Counted, not estimated

Across the 213 cities Refuelia counts, at least 843 forecourts are tagged Shell in OpenStreetMap, in 25 countries. At least, because only the six commonest chains of each city are stored — a Shell that is seventh in its city is not in this number.

Johor Bahru44George Town41Manila41Cordoba37Manchester36Liverpool30Berlin27Calgary27Casablanca27Los Angeles26Washington26Dallas24

Counted from OpenStreetMap · 19 August 2026. Refuelia has no relationship with Shell and shows no prices it has not been given by an official feed. A brand tag is also not a promise the forecourt is open: where a driver has checked recently the map says when, and where nobody has, it says that instead of guessing.

Why the number below is a floor, not a total

Refuelia stores the six commonest chains of each city it counts. In a city where Shell is seventh, those forecourts exist on the map and are not in this figure. So the count says "at least", and it will keep saying that until the storage changes. A number presented as complete when it is not is the kind of thing this site was built to stop doing.

What a Shell tag does and does not tell you

It tells you a mapper saw Shell branding. It does not tell you the forecourt is open tonight, that it sells the grade you need, or what it charges. Where an official government price feed is connected — France, Spain and Italy — the map shows the real per-station price with its timestamp. Everywhere else it shows what it knows and says when it does not know.

Questions drivers actually ask

Does Refuelia work with Shell?
No. There is no relationship, no data feed and no arrangement of any kind. Every station here comes from OpenStreetMap, which anybody can edit, plus official government price feeds where they exist.

Are Shell prices shown?
Only where a government publishes them per station. In France, Spain and Italy that is a legal requirement and the map shows the figure with the date it was published. Germany obliges retailers too, but that feed is not connected yet and the map says so rather than guessing. Elsewhere no price is shown, because inventing one would be worse than showing none.

Other chains on this map

Every one of these pages is built the same way and carries the same warning: the number is what has been counted in the cities this map covers, not a national total, and it says "at least" for that reason. See how we work out confidence for the arithmetic behind the freshness figures, and open the live map to filter by fuel grade.

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What a pin can say

Fuel available
a driver confirmed it, and the card says when
Limited fuel
some grades out, or a queue at the pump
No fuel
somebody stood there and told us
Open by its timetable
the posted hours say open. Nobody has checked
No fresh report
and the map says so, rather than guessing

Every other map draws the first one and stops. The last two are the point: when nobody has checked, this map says nobody has checked, instead of guessing green.