Blog

Read the latest insights and analysis from the experts at Oil Change International.

Shell at it again? Oil Giant shirking responsibility by selling its assets in the Niger Delta

Last month, it was widely reported that another chapter in Shell’s dirty and disastrous eighty-seven-year operations in the Niger Delta was coming to an end, with the company selling its onshore business.

28 Years Later – Shell still trying to crush opposition

The oil giant Shell spends millions of dollars each year to anticipate the future to try and predict the unpredictable. In a corporate game of crystal-ball gazing, Shell likes to play the long game, looking decades into the future to predict upcoming geopolitical or technological trends.

Activists warn “don’t plunder Africa” after human rights activist is “locked out” of London energy conference

The glossy website for the African Oil Summit in London last week called the event “Africa’s premier global energy conference”. Partners included some of the biggest international oil companies such as BP, Shell, Eni, E.on and Total.

The struggle continues: Please show compassion for the widows of the Ogoni 9

A Go Fund Me page has been created to help the widows of four Ogoni whose husbands were murdered by the Nigerian military back in 1995, along with the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. The widows finally gave up their decades-long legal struggle against Shell last year and are in desperate financial straits. Please help them.

British Cycling faces huge backlash over Shell “sportswashing” sponsorship

On Monday, British Cycling, the UK’s national body promoting cycling, which has helped the country produce a string of elite Olympian athletes, announced that it had signed a “long-term partnership” with oil giant Shell.

“Victory for the planet” as South African court quashes Shell’s exploration licence

The history of Shell on the African continent is wrapped in a vortex of controversy that stretches back decades. However, last week, in a significant victory, a High Court in South Africa ruled that Shell’s exploration right to conduct seismic surveys on the so-called “Wild Coast” of the country was granted unlawfully.

As millions face energy destitution, Shell reports record profits of $11.5 billion

Oil giant Shell has just posted record profits for a second consecutive quarter, smashing its previous record from earlier this year.

Shell AGM: Company accused of “hot air” and “causing extreme harms” on climate

Today is Shell’s AGM, where the company will try and spin to its shareholders and the wider public that it is leading the climate fight and race to net zero. But its all a climate charade. Its all a lie.

The fight to hold Shell accountable for complicity in murder & pollution in Nigeria continues

In 2017, Esther Kiobel and three other widows of the Ogoni 9, brought a new legal case against Shell in the Netherlands for complicity in murdering their husbands. And today was judgement day in the Hague. A day for hope. A day of dreams. However, those dreams were to be shattered. But this is not the end of the fight.

How Big Oil courted and emboldened Putin for decades

For decades Big Oil courted Putin and helped him exploit Russia’s vast reserves. Big Oil poured billions into Russia’s war chest with devastating consequences.