Shell needs to take “responsibility for its toxic legacy of pollution” and safely decommission its abandoned oil infrastructure before divesting from the onshore oil industry in the Niger Delta, a report on Shell’s environmental impact said. A report by the Somo published on…
A school was forced to go on recess while the environment has been adversely affected by a gas flaring operation conducted by Shell, an international oil company, in the heart of a community in Bayelsa State. Residents of Gbarantoru Community,…
Some Nigerians from Niger Delta on Monday called on President Bola Tinubu to compel Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo) to pay $3.6 billion awarded to them as compensation for the 2011 Bonga oil spill. The group staged…
Amid a landmark deal by the Shell Group to sell its Nigerian onshore assets operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), some host communities in Delta and Bayelsa states have threatened to shut down the company’s four flow stations and…
NaijaNews. There is a palpable air of uncertainty in Ikarama community, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa state over oil spill sites that are posing risks to the health of the area. Field Monitoring Officer of Environmental Rights Action (ERA),…
THIS DAY Shell Plc and Eni SpA both declared force majeure on key oil flows from Nigeria, threatening to disrupt supplies in a market already fretting about the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Shell’s measure had been in place…
THE SUN Protesting indigenes of Itsekiri host communities of Ugborodo, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, have reportedly shut down about 15 crude oil well heads within the Ogidigben flow station belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).…
THISDAY *Says ruling may imperil IOC’s $3bn planned asset sale if upheld Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) will tomorrow attempt to convince the Court of Appeal, Owerri Division, to upturn an N800 billion judgement against the oil giant by a…
THIS DAY Royal Dutch Shell has placed more of its onshore oil assets in Nigeria for sale with at least five Nigerian oil and gas companies preparing to submit their respective bids for the acquisition of the assets this month.…
LEADERSHIP The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), has called on communities in the Niger Delta, whose environments have been negatively impacted by oil exploration and exploitation activities, to demand full accountability from oil companies. ERA/FoEN executive director,…
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