1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1564+ words) Two veteran Shell employees working aboard the Prelude floating LNG facility off Western Australia have lost their attempt to secure substantially reduced working arrangements as they move toward retirement. But the Fair Work Commission decision, handed down on 1 September 2026, is…...

1+ week, 5+ 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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1602+ words) For years, Sakhalin II had been discussed as though international public finance might determine whether the project could proceed. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development examined a proposed Phase 2 financing package. The US Export-Import Bank was also involved in…...

1+ week, 6+ day 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, 12+ 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) 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, 4+ day ago   (1591+ words) Some of the most revealing words in the newly disclosed Shell papers are not about corrosion, clamps, leak detection or the condition of a pipeline. They are about the “court of public opinion.” That phrase appears in the March 2013 Project…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1575+ words) For decades, one word has carried extraordinary weight in arguments over oil pollution in the Niger Delta. If a pipeline was deliberately damaged by thieves, Shell could point to criminal conduct by third parties. If it failed because of corrosion…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (1574+ words) Shell’s central explanation for much of the pollution in the Niger Delta is familiar. They installed illegal taps. And Shell argues that this criminal activity caused the majority of the pollution now at issue in the Bille and Ogale litigation....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1615+ words) A pipeline operator can blame a thief for drilling the hole. It cannot blame the thief for the quality of its own leak-detection system. That distinction emerges starkly from two internal Shell documents now public through the HEDA Resource Centre…...