May 12, 2023
SINGAPORE– Shell has suspended production at its Prelude floating liquid natural gas facility off Western Australia due to problems with its processes, a spokeswoman said on Friday, and is working through steps to restart production at the world’s largest floating …
May 10, 2023
HOUSTON (AP) — Crews have finally extinguished a fire at a Houston-area petrochemical plant that had been burning on and off for days, according to Shell, which operates the plant. Firefighters first responded to the blaze at the Deer Park …
May 8, 2023
HOUSTON (AP) — Fire erupted at a petrochemical plant in the Houston area Friday, leaving five workers hospitalized and sending up a huge plume of smoke visible for miles. Emergency responders were called to help around 3 p.m. at the …
February 2, 2023
LAGOS –– More than 11,000 Nigerians from the oil-producing Niger Delta have filed a compensation claim against Shell at the London High Court, the latest step in a case that will test whether multinationals can be held to account for …
November 8, 2013
Amnesty International accuses Nigeria’s biggest petroleum producer, Shell, of manipulating oil spill investigations and documents in cases where the rights group says the company has wrongly reported on the cause and volume of pollution devastating the Niger Delta and made …
January 8, 2013
A Shell oil drilling rig that ran aground last week reached a safe harbor on Monday, where it will be examined to assess its seaworthiness after a week on the rocks near an Alaskan island. Stormy weather had wrestled the …
November 3, 2011
Royal Dutch Shell PLC long has argued that thieves are to blame for most of the oil spills coming from pipelines in Nigeria’s crude-producing southern delta. Now the company is trying to prove that claim in real time on the …
September 9, 2011
Shell Chemical LP has agreed to pay $500,000 to a Texas County over five different air pollution events at its Deer Park refinery. The settlement was reached after Harris County accused Shell Chemical, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, …
August 17, 2011
Royal Dutch Shell said Tuesday that a leak at one of its North Sea oil rigs has been reduced to 2 barrels – or 84 gallons – a day. Glen Cayley, technical director of Shell’s European exploration and production activities, …