Shell Helix Grades

Shell Helix Grades- Engine Oils

Mineral Motor Oils

Mineral motor oil is the fraction of naturally occurring crude oil with the right properties for lubricating engines. Shell Helix mineral motor oils help to protect your engine against harmful sludge to help keep engines clean.

Shell Helix HX5 15W40-Premium multigrade motor oil 

  • Helps to remove sludge from dirty engines.
  • Helps to protect against wear and neutralise corrosive combustion acids
  • For gasoline, diesel and gas engines; also suitable for biodiesel and gasoline/ethanol blends

Specifications: API SL/CF. Buy Shell Lubes online here


Shell Helix HX3 SAE 40

Monograde motor oil – Reliable protection for older engines.

  • Helps to protect against harmful sludge and varnish deposits

Specifications: API SL/CF

 Shell Semi Synthetic Oils

Shell Helix synthetic technology oils make use of both synthetic and mineral base stocks to achieve higher performance levels than can be formulated from mineral oils alone.

Semi synthetic motor oils help protect your engine.

Shell Helix semi-synthetic or ‘synthetic technology’ oils make use of both synthetic and mineral base stocks to achieve higher performance levels than can be formulated from mineral oils alone. With  active cleansing technology, Shell Helix synthetic technology motor oils go on cleansing and protecting to help keep your engine feeling like new, and they provide low oil for less frequent top up.


Shell Helix HX 7

Synthetic technology motor oil – 

  • Helps to keep engines clean and running efficiently.
  • Makes use of both synthetic and mineral base stocks to achieve higher performance levels than can be formulated from mineral oils alone
  • Helps to extend engine life by protecting against wear, even in daily traffic conditions
  • For gasoline, diesel and gas engines; also suitable for biodiesel and gasoline/ethanol blends

Specifications: API SN/CF

Shell Fully Synthetic Oils


Shell Helix fully synthetic oils are manufactured from 100% synthetic base stock and high quality additives to achieve higher performance levels than both synthetic technology and mineral oils.

It is not just freezing Arctic conditions or blistering deserts that push oil to extremes. Everyday motorway driving or congested city traffic, where the car repeatedly has to stop and start, can mean severe conditions for engine oil. Shell Helix Ultra’s fully synthetic formulation offers Shell’s maximum protection in very hot and extremely cold climates, and severe driving conditions.

Ultra is Shell’s most advanced formulation for high-performance engines.

Today’s vehicles need a motor oil that keeps pace with their changing demands and does more to improve performance and engine life.

Shell Helix Ultra is a range of top-tier motor oil that is formulated, yielding a motor oil that actively helps keep engines clean.

Shell Helix Ultra 5W-40 provides:

  • Unsurpassed sludge protection – no other motor oil can keep your engine closer to factory clean 1
  • Exceptional protection and cleansing, even at the longest manufacturer-recommended oil-drain intervals
  • Approved for use by numerous makers of high-performance vehicles and is the only motor oil used by Ferrari

Specifications: API SN/CF

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