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Shell Nigeria is the common name for Shell plc's Nigerian operations carried out through four subsidiaries—primarily Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC). [2] Royal Dutch Shell's joint ventures account for more than 21% of Nigeria 's total petroleum production (629,000 barrels per day (100,000 m 3 /d) (bpd) in 2009).
Royal Dutch Shell wants to reweight its footprint in Nigeria to focus on oil and gas fields far offshore, away from the theft, spills, corruption and unrest that have plagued the West African ...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch prosecutors said on Friday they had uncovered "prosecutable offences" during their ongoing investigation into Royal Dutch Shell's $1.3 billion acquisition of Nigerian ...
Royal Dutch Shell last year experienced a sharp rise in the number of oil spills caused by pipeline theft in Nigeria, which the company said were the result of larger output and higher oil prices.
Later that same year, Shell requested military support in order to build a pipeline through Ogoniland. The MOSOP continued to protest Shell’s business in Nigeria and oppose their work. Since the execution of the Ogoni Nine, throughout the early 2000s, there have been numerous spills and extraction-related fires throughout Nigeria. [11] [12] [13]
Diezani returned to Nigeria in 1992 and joined Shell Petroleum working in the estates area of operations in the Lagos office of Shell as well as acting as an architectural consultant. [11] She rose to the position of Head of Civil Infrastructures and then became Head of Corporate Issues and Crisis Management Unit in 1997.
Today, a Dutch court delivered a judgment finding Shell's Nigerian subsidiary partly liable for environmental and social damage its operations have caused in Nigeria. The result - while qualified ...
On June 8, 2009, Shell settled out-of-court with the Saro-Wiwa family for $15.5 million. [2] [3] Ben Amunwa, director of the Remember Saro-Wiwa organization, said that "No company, that is innocent of any involvement with the Nigeria military and human rights abuses, would settle out of court for 15.5 million dollars. It clearly shows that they ...