4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1602+ words) The previous instalment ended with a warning. Sakhalin Energy had kept PA-C alive as a future option. Its 2014 appraisal well had disappeared. But another major operation was moving steadily toward the northeastern Sakhalin shelf. A 4-D seismic survey. The purpose…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1613+ words) The previous instalment ended with a platform location. The 2012 site survey had shown that the alternative “blue location” could work. It lay farther offshore than the earlier preferred PA-C site, farther from the principal Western Gray Whale feeding area and…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (1593+ words) Before a third platform could be built, Sakhalin Energy had to determine exactly where it might stand. That required another seismic operation. The South Piltun high-resolution 2-D site survey was originally planned for summer 2011. It did not happen on schedule....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (752+ words) After checking the HEDA Resource Centre archive again against the full Nigeria: Lifting the Lid report and against the instalments already published in this series, I do not think there is another substantial documentary story that can responsibly be presented…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1587+ words) After weeks examining individual Shell Nigeria documents, there is a danger of overlooking perhaps the most important fact about the archive itself. The public does not have the whole archive. But according to the report prepared by Amnesty International, HEDA…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1596+ words) For years, one word has dominated Shell’s explanation of oil pollution in the Niger Delta: There is no responsible reason to pretend that oil theft and sabotage were invented by Shell. But the legal question is more complicated than the…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (1563+ words) The 17 August instalment of The Shell Nigeria Files examined a particular issue: whether Shell’s programme of divestment risked transferring massive decommissioning and pollution problems along with the assets. This article addresses a different question. What did Shell’s shareholders know, from…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1581+ words) The previous Shell Leaks File examined a deceptively simple document. On 4 March 2004, Britain’s Export Credits Guarantee Department sent Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd a letter headed: The letter did not constitute the final approximately $650 million ECGD guarantee being contemplated for…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1581+ words) There are internal Shell documents about pipelines. There are documents about corrosion. Then there is a different kind of evidence. Section 4.7 of the July 2026 report Nigeria: Lifting the Lid reproduces material relied upon by the Bille and Ogale claimants concerning…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1604+ words) Sometimes an old article improves with age. Reading it again almost twenty years later is rather like opening a corporate time capsule. There is a worried whistleblower. There are secret emergency offices. There are allegations about employees being required to…...