Books About Shell: An Expanded Bibliography
Introduction
Royal Dutch Shell, now Shell plc, has generated an unusually large body of literature stretching from official corporate histories and executive memoirs to academic studies, environmental investigations, human-rights accounts and books written by people directly involved in disputes with the company.
The bibliography below includes:
- histories commissioned or published by Shell;
- independent corporate histories;
- biographies of important Shell figures;
- books about particular Shell businesses and projects;
- books concerning Nigeria, Ogoni and Ken Saro-Wiwa;
- books about Brent Spar and Corrib;
- studies of Shell’s celebrated scenario-planning system;
- broader histories of the international oil industry in which Shell is a significant subject;
- and Amazon Kindle books by John Donovan concerning his long-running relationship with Shell.
The descriptions below are original summaries rather than reproductions of publishers’ copyrighted descriptions.
Early Royal Dutch and Shell Histories
1934
An International Oil Man
Author: Sir Henri Deterding, as told to Stanley Naylor
Format: Print
Shell E&P purges contempt in Erris land proceedings
AMSTERDAM, Aug 27 (Reuters) – The Dutch government will end production at the vast Groningen natural gas field sooner than previously announced, Dutch Economy Minister Eric Wiebes said on Tuesday.
NO, IT’S NOT MALCOLM BRINDED. HIS BRIBERY & CORRUPTION TRIAL (RE OPL 245) ALSO RELATING TO NIGERIA, IS STILL IN PROGRESS. 
