3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (265+ words) ### 9. Comparability It functions in overlapping ways with investigative journalism (aggregation and spotlighting of documents), shareholder activism (persistent public scrutiny), corporate-watchdog organisations, and institutional historical archives. It is not identical to any of them, but the functional parallel is real: external…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1581+ words) On 7 July 2015, Exxon Neftegas Limited finished seismic acquisition at Odoptu. On 8 July, Sakhalin Energy recorded the first shot point of its own Piltun-Astokh 4-D survey. On 29 July it recorded the last. That compressed timetable matters because almost everything that had…...

4+ day, 3+ 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, 4+ 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…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1625+ words) Shell is reportedly exploring the sale of a majority stake in one of its oldest and most historically significant gas-to-liquids assets: the Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis plant at Bintulu, Sarawak. Upstream reported on 7 September 2026 that Shell is considering a disposal…...

1+ week, 3+ 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…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1298+ words) There are corporate disposals, difficult corporate disposals — and then there is Shell’s 37.5% stake in the PCK Schwedt refinery. Shell has been attempting to get out of this particular German refining investment for years. Unfortunately for Shell, the stake appears remarkably…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1590+ words) Shell launched its new Penguins FPSO in the UK North Sea in February 2025 with considerable fanfare. The company called it a “state-of-the-art” facility and an “engineering marvel” — Shell’s first new operated offshore production facility in the UK North Sea for…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1617+ words) According to the Financial Times, Shell’s U.S. chemicals assets have attracted interest from potential bidders including ExxonMobil, LyondellBasell, Apollo and the chemicals arm of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. The assets could fetch as much as $8 billion, although the process remains preliminary…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1592+ words) One sentence in the newly released Shell papers deserves an article of its own. It was written in 2008 by senior Royal Dutch Shell executive Malcolm Brinded to Ann Pickard, according to HEDA Resource Centre’s account of the disclosed correspondence. Discussing…...