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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).
The alleged failings in the oil clean-up come as Shell prepares to sell its Nigerian subsidiary, the SPDC, to Renaissance Africa, a consortium of local and international companies.
In 1971 the Kenyan government decided to buy in 50% of the shares from Royal Dutch Shell. In 1983, the name of the company was changed to Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited. In July 2009, Essar Energy acquired 50 percent stake in KPRL for $7 million from Chevron, BP and Royal Dutch Shell. [4] [5] Crude oil refining operations stopped in ...
Vivo Energy was established in 2011, as a partnership between Vitol Group, a Swiss-based Dutch-owned multinational energy and commodity trading company, and Helios Investment Partners, a United Kingdom-based private equity firm, with the objective to purchase majority shares in the downstream fuels business of Shell in Africa for approximately $1 billion.
By the end of the 1920s, Shell was the world's leading oil company, producing 11 percent of the world's crude oil supply and owning 10 percent of its tanker tonnage. [30] During the Spanish Civil War the company sold oil to the Nationalist side of Francisco Franco. [32] 1932 Shell advertisement poster by the British surrealist painter Paul Nash
A South African court is to rule on efforts to stop British oil giant Shell from conducting any further seismic surveys in the country’s Indian Ocean waters to explore for offshore oil and gas ...
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), is a social movement organization representing the indigenous Ogoni people [1] [2] of Rivers State, Nigeria.The Ogoni contend that Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), along with other petroleum multinationals and the Nigerian government, have destroyed their environment, polluted their rivers, and provided no benefits in return ...
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