3+ day, 23+ 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…...

5+ day, 20+ 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…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (192+ words) Royal Dutch Shell Plc.com News and information on Shell Plc The Rear-Admiral and the Cereal Box: How a ‘Space Invaders’ Scratch Card Kept Falklands War Morale Afloat Sir Henri Deterding, resurrected! Sir Henri Deterding, the controversial and outspoken founder…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1605+ words) The timing could hardly have been more revealing. At its December 2010 meeting, the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel was still trying to understand what had happened during an extraordinary year on the northeastern Sakhalin shelf. Three seismic surveys had operated…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1606+ words) The previous Shell Leaks File examined a rare example of an environmental protection system directly constraining an industrial operation. Sakhalin Energy’s Astokh 4-D seismic survey was conducted under an unusually elaborate monitoring programme. The scientists helped design it. Marine Mammal…...

1+ week, 4+ 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…...

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, 6+ 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…...

2+ week, 4+ hour 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, 20+ 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…...