Royal Dutch Shell Plc 

Shell is selling the pipeline network supplying more than 130 Nigerian businesses. Meanwhile, a separately identified Vaaris company has completed an $800 million acquisition of interests in the former Shell-operated oil joint venture. Corporate announcements, legal advisers’ disclosures and Seplat Energy’s financial statements reveal important details — and equally important l...

THE SHELL LEAKS FILES — 10 NOVEMBER 2026

Archive reference: SLF-2007-114

The Sakhalin Papers CIV: The Half-Million-Tonne Question — Sakhalin’s Forgotten Gas-Chemical Ambition A 1997 agreement envisaged supplying Sakhalin with at least 500,000 tonnes of light hydrocarbon fractions annually, beginning in 2005. Shell’s engineers subsequently d...

THE SHELL LEAKS FILES — 9 NOVEMBER 2026

Archive reference: SLF-2007-113

The Sakhalin Papers CIII: The Sakhalin Gas Promise — What the Island Was Supposed to Receive, and Why Moscow Looked Elsewhere A 1997 agreement envisaged annual gas supplies of at least 6.25 billion cubic metres for Sakhalin’s regional needs by 2015. Seventeen years later, the Russian ...

AN INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INVESTIGATION

By the Donovan–Shell Archive | 9 November 2026

As BP and Shell retreat from parts of their petrol-station networks, a fundamental question is emerging: are the oil majors sitting on valuable retail businesses that might be worth more outside their corporate empires? Shell’s own finan...

From The Sakhalin Papers to Ogoniland: An invitation to witnesses, researchers, former Shell employees and Shell plc itself to contribute evidence.

By the Donovan–Shell Archive | 8 November 2026

AN INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INVESTIGATION

Following the publication of The Sakhalin Papers, our extensive d...