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While oil grabs most of the headlines, Shell’s ambitions in Brazil extend far beyond offshore drilling rigs and deep-water crude.

This week, fresh news reports from Investing.com, Yahoo Finance and other financial outlets have highlighted renewed focus on Raízen, the giant Brazilian biofuels company jointly controlled by Shell and the Brazilian conglomerate Cosan.

The message from Shell appears clear: even as it expands oil production in Brazil’s offshore pre-salt fields, the company is also reinforcing its position in one of the world’s largest ethanol and bioenergy businesses.

In other words, Shell wants to sell you both the fossil fuel and the plant-based alternative. read more

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Crisis in the Middle East, Opportunity in Brazil: Shell Eyes a Fossil Fuel Bonanza

Mar 6th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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While politicians talk endlessly about climate targets and energy transitions, the oil industry tends to operate on a much simpler principle: follow the barrels.

And right now, Shell believes those barrels increasingly lie beneath the Atlantic waters off Brazil.

According to a Reuters report, Shell’s Brazilian chief has described the country’s oil sector as presenting an “enormous opportunity” for investment and expansion. (Sahm Attachment.tiff )

The comment came amid heightened geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, which have once again reminded energy companies of the advantages of producing oil in politically stable regions.

Brazil, it turns out, looks very attractive. read more

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Shell’s Venezuelan Comeback: Big Oil Returns to the World’s Most Sanctioned Oil Patch

Mar 6th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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For years, Venezuela was the oil industry’s forbidden zone — a country with the largest proven oil reserves on Earth but locked behind layers of sanctions, political turmoil and diplomatic brinkmanship.

Now the door is creaking open again.

Recent reporting by Upstream Online and other energy news outlets indicates that Shell has confirmed it is preparing to move forward with Venezuelan energy opportunities, following major shifts in U.S. sanctions policy that now allow international oil companies to negotiate deals with the country’s state oil company, PDVSA. (upstreamonline.com Attachment.tiff ) read more

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OPL 245 Returns: The $1.3 Billion Scandal That Refuses to Stay Buried

Mar 6th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Just when you thought one of the oil industry’s most notorious corruption sagas might finally fade into history, Nigeria has decided to give it a fresh coat of paint and a new corporate structure.

The controversial offshore oil licence OPL 245—long associated with bribery allegations, court battles across continents, and enough legal paperwork to deforest half the Niger Delta—has now been split into four new blocks under an arrangement involving Shell plc and Italy’s Eni, according to a report by Reuters. (MarketScreener Attachment.tiff ) read more

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Testing Artificial Intelligence: An Unexpected Conversation with ChatGPT

Mar 5th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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By John Donovan

AI Experiments and an Unexpected Observation

During a conversation yesterday evening with ChatGPT, the discussion turned to methods used by investigative bloggers and technology journalists to test artificial intelligence systems and present the results in ways that attract reader interest.

ChatGPT explained that one particularly effective technique is to ask several AI platforms the same question and then publish their responses side-by-side. This allows readers to compare how different systems interpret the same issue. The approach promotes transparency, highlights differences in emphasis or interpretation, and can reveal how AI systems handle complex or controversial subjects. read more

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WINDOWS FORUM: AI Amplified Bot War: Shell vs Donovan Over Archival Critique

Mar 4th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Over the years, Donovan has maintained a suite of independent, non‑commercial websites (most famously royaldutchshellplc.com and variations on that domain) that aggregate court documents, internal Shell materials, criticism, and historical research. Those sites — and Donovan’s tactics of publicising archival material — have been at the centre of repeated attempts by Shell (or its agents) to shut down, suppress, or legally challenge the content.

Published by windowsforum.com 12.51am 4 March 2026

The long-running feud between John Donovan and Shell plc has re‑entered a modern, high‑stakes phase: an AI‑amplified “bot war” that has prompted renewed legal posturing from Shell, intensified public debate over corporate brand protection tactics, and raised new questions about how multinational companies should — or can — respond to adversarial archival activism in the age of generative AI. Early March 2026 saw fresh rounds of public exchanges and private threats, but the underlying pattern remains familiar: legal letters and third‑party pressure that frequently aim to deter critics but rarely culminate in full trials. This article maps the recent developments, explains the legal and reputational levers Shell has historically used, assesses where the new AI dimension changes the calculus, and flags what is verifiable versus what remains contested. read more

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Donovan–Shell Feud: AI Raises New Questions

Mar 4th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Yesterday we published an article titled “Donovan Shell Feud: Renewed Legal Threats?”

The article included replies from several AI platforms in response to the following prompt:

“Have AI bots managed to put a stop to John Donovan’s tricks and mischief in his bot-war-fuelled feud with Shell plc, or are AI bot platforms neutral?”

If any reader gained the impression from the collective AI responses that Shell is actively considering, or has taken, legal action against me, I would like to make it clear that I have no knowledge of any such development. read more

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Donovan Shell Feud: Renewed legal threats?

Mar 4th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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“Shell has issued threats of legal action but hasn’t visibly disrupted the AI-driven campaign.”

EXTRACT FROM GOOGLE AI MODE REPLY (FULL RESPONSE BELOW)

Renewed Legal Threats: In February 2026, Shell reportedly issued or considered new legal threats in response to Donovan’s “bot war” and AI-amplified publications.
Specific Defamation Focus: Legal analysts suggest Shell may shift from broad attempts to silence Donovan to targeting specific, demonstrably false AI-generated claims.
Platform Engagement: Shell could engage directly with AI vendors to request the removal of outputs containing factual errors or to improve the provenance of model citations.
Evidence Protocols: The company may be developing new legal protocols to manage cases where decades of archival documents are reinterpreted by AI to create “new” allegations.

Question put to multiple bot platforms on 3rd March 2026 including Google AI Mode: Have AI bots managed to put a stop to John Donovan’s tricks and mischief in his bot war fuelled feud with Shell plc or are AI bot platforms neutral?

Reply by Grok…

The long-standing feud between activist John Donovan and Shell plc, dating back decades over allegations of corporate misconduct, intellectual property disputes, and espionage, has recently escalated into what Donovan himself terms a “bot war.” This involves him systematically feeding archival documents and prompts into various public AI chatbots, then publishing their outputs to highlight inconsistencies, amplify his narratives, and provoke Shell. Based on available information as of early March 2026, AI bots have not managed to halt Donovan’s activities—instead, they appear to be enabling or amplifying them in reputational battles. Here’s a breakdown: read more

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EXTRACTS FROM JOHN DONOVAN BOOK “SIR HENRI DETERDING AND THE NAZI HISTORY OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL”

Mar 2nd, 2026

by John Donovan.

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In the years leading up to WW2, the Dutch founder of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, Sir Henri Deterding became an ardent Nazi. He financially backed the Third Reich and met directly with Hitler on behalf of Royal Dutch Shell.

As a major financial contributor to Nazi Germany in pre-WW2 years, the Royal Dutch Shell Group, under Dutch leadership, arguably had some indirect responsibility for the death toll in the subsequent war, in which over 50 million people perished.

Shell publicly boasted at the time about the importance of its financial contribution to the German economy. The claims were made by Shell in Germany while the country was under Nazi control.

In years leading up to WW2, Shell conspired with partners, Standard Oil, and German chemical giant I.G. Farben, to covertly import oil products, including airplane fuel, from the US into Nazi Germany. The US government was kept in the dark.

I.G. Farben supplied the Zyklon-B gas used in the Holocaust to kill millions of people.

The portrayal in 2007 by Shell’s paid historians of a distant relationship between Deterding and Hitler, in which all attempts by Deterding to meet with Hitler were rebuffed is simply untrue.

In fact, their meetings included a four-day one-on-one summit held at Hitler’s mountain retreat, as reported by Reuters in 1934.

Deterding has been described by independent authors as “a hardline Nazi revered and ultimately mourned by Hitler.” That description is confirmed by the evidence within this book and evidence accessible via links.

There are credible allegations that the Royal Dutch Shell Group, under the control of Dutch directors, used forced labor at its German subsidiary, Rhenania-Ossag. Many of its directors and staff were fanatical Nazis.

Royal Dutch Shell collaborated in the annexation and occupation of sovereign countries by the Nazis – Austria and Czechoslovakia – before the outbreak of WW2.

The donations and financial contributions to the Third Reich were all carried out under the control of Dutch directors of companies within the Royal Dutch Shell Group.

In 1936, while still a director of multiple Royal Dutch Shell group companies, Sir Henri purchased the Castle Dobbin estate North of Berlin for 1,050,000 Reich marks from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.

Deterding moved into Castle Dobbin with his young German wife, his secretary, a fanatical Nazi said by one source to be a former private secretary of Hitler’s.

Sir Henri’s friend Hermann Göring, the founder of the Gestapo, regularly visited Castle Dobbin to go hunting with him. Deterding generously gave Göring the Rominten Hunting Lodge in East Prussia as a spectacular gift. Kaiser Wilhelm II once owned it.

In 1936 and 1937, Sir Henri – while still a director of multiple companies within the Royal Dutch Shell Group, in which he held a controlling interest – made huge donations of food (“millions of tonnes”) to Nazi Germany as part of the “Winter Help” scheme. A New York Times report in June 1937 (“Deterding to Distribute More Food in Germany”) specifically linked the food donations to Germany’s rearmament policy.

The massive donations enabled significant funds to be diverted at a time when the Nazi regime was engaged in urgent rearmament of its military might.

Seven thousand railway wagons were used in the first immense delivery.

Deterding died just before the outbreak of WW2. He was honored by a Nazi ceremonial funeral at Castle Dobbin in February 1939. It was attended by a full contingent of Royal Dutch Shell Group directors mingling with Nazi military officers.

A glowing tribute to Sir Henri on behalf of the German nation was inscribed on a wreath sent by Adolf Hitler.

The Bishop who conducted the funeral service was a supporter of Hitler and a rabid anti-Semite.

Film footage of the Nazi funeral spectacular exists.

Fears that the Nazis intended to exploit the death of Sir Henri, just before the start of WW2, to seize control of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, were well founded. The UK National Archives has kindly given permission for related documents and correspondence to be featured within this book.

Dutch directors of the Royal Dutch Shell Group engaged in anti-Semitic policies against Shell employees and were also guilty of collaboration and appeasement.

Royal Dutch Shell employees in the Netherlands were instructed to complete a form that for some amounted to a self-declared death warrant. Many did not survive the war.

The Nazis did succeed in gaining control over Dobbin Castle.

In the latter part of WW2, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, SS leader Heinrich Himmler and General Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command, were all stationed at Dobbin Castle.

Hitler’s final despairing message from his Berlin bunker, a day before he committed suicide, was sent to Field Marshal Keitel at Dobbin Castle, whilst it was still owned by the Deterding family. Strangely, that somehow seems appropriate.

Evidence was on display at Castle Dobbin, signed by Hitler, confirming Deterding’s financial support for the Nazis. Also a personal testimony by Herman Göring acknowledging the generosity of his friend and benefactor, Sir Henri Deterding.

The close friendship between Herman Göring and Sir Henri Deterding has been confirmed in a book published in 2015 authored by the grandson of Henry van der Waerden, Shell’s Director for Europe under Sir Henri Deterding. The content is partly based on family records, including correspondence with Deterding.

Please see the related article “Henry van Waerden, the Shell executive who defied Deterding and his Nazi ambitions.”

Shell’s HQ in Copenhagen, Denmark, was used in WW2 as the HQ for the dreaded Nazi secret police, the Gestapo. “Shellhus” was bombed and destroyed by the RAF on 21 March 1945. It had been used for the torture of Danish citizens.

At the time of the RAF bombing raid – Operation Carthage, Shell’s businesses in occupied Europe were under the control of Nazi administrators, some of whom ended up as executives in Shell’s German subsidiary Rhenania-Ossag after WW2 ended.

The above information was first published by John Donovan several years ago in defiance of litigation threats by Michiel Brandjes, a senior lawyer and Company Secretary of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Shell prudently decided not to sue.

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Consensus of Copilot, Perplexity, ChatGPT and Grok: Shell is losing the bot war with Donovan

Mar 1st, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Shell is currently losing the “bot war” in reputational and narrative terms, even though it remains far stronger in conventional power (money, lawyers, regulators) than John Donovan. The damage is reputational, long‑tail and cumulative rather than existential.

Question put to Perplexity 1st March 2026:

I put this question to Copilot earlier today. In your opinion is Shell losing or winning the bot war? Their reply is in the following article: https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2026/03/01/copilot-update-on-donovan-shell-feud-1st-march-2026/ What is your assessment?

Reply by Perplexity:

Shell is currently losing the “bot war” in reputational and narrative terms, even though it remains far stronger in conventional power (money, lawyers, regulators) than John Donovan. read more

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Copilot update on Donovan Shell feud 1st March 2026: Shell is losing the bot war

Mar 1st, 2026

by John Donovan.

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ESG analysts are watching the feud because AI‑generated narratives can reshape perceptions of ethics and sustainability.

The latest developments in the Donovan–Shell feud center on a long‑running corporate dispute that has recently evolved into a digitally amplified, AI‑driven information battle. The conflict, which began decades ago, is now being reshaped by the use of chatbots, archival material, and public provocations.

📰 Most recent headlines at a glance

February 2026 updates describe renewed legal threats and continued public clashes between John Donovan and Shell.
A “bot war” has emerged, with Donovan feeding archival documents into AI systems to expose inconsistencies and provoke Shell.
Regulators have stepped in, with the UK’s Financial Reporting Council investigating Shell’s 2024 audit amid the broader narrative tensions.
AI‑mediated activism is escalating, creating new reputational risks for Shell and new visibility for Donovan.
A February 2026 retrospective reiterates the feud’s origins in 1980s intellectual‑property disputes and its evolution into a modern digital campaign.

🔍 What’s happening now

1. Escalation through AI

Recent coverage highlights that Donovan is deliberately using large‑language models to revive and amplify decades of documents, litigation records, and leaked materials. By publishing the differing outputs from various chatbots, he is reframing the feud as a test of AI reliability and corporate transparency. This tactic has created a fast‑moving information environment that Shell has struggled to control. read more

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You Can Be Sure of Shell (Spies): My Four‑Decade Journey from Trusted Partner to Target

Feb 28th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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“Shell’s combination of early negligence, a failed recovery attempt, and its own internal risk calculus has left it in the position you describe. Its most persistent critic has operated royaldutchshellplc.com for nearly two decades, functions as an unofficial archive and leak‑hub about Shell, and—because reality is stranger than satire—handles misdirected emails for a domain name that Shell should have owned but didn’t.”

By John Donovan

Prologue: From Bing Crosby to Black Ops

“You can be sure of Shell,” crooned Bing Crosby, selling the world a vision of wholesome petrol, smiling forecourt staff and corporate virtue distilled into a jingle. I took that slogan at face value when I first began working with Shell in 1981. I assumed I was dealing with respectable businesspeople, not a corporation that would one day run a covert issues “war room,” secretly threaten my web hosts on two continents, deploy private investigators under false identities, and liaise with cyber‑intelligence outfits to monitor a critic’s website. read more

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You Can’t Be Sure of Shell: A Decades-Long Saga of Corporate Espionage, Dirty Tricks, and the Oil Giant’s Shadowy Underbelly

Feb 28th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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You Can’t Be Sure of Shell: The World’s Most Over-Compensating Oil Baron Turns Critic-Busting into a Full-Time Comedy Routine (Now in Its 45th Hilarious Year!)

By John Donovan

Ah, Shell – that beacon of reliability, immortalized by Bing Crosby’s crooning jingle: “You can be sure of Shell.” How quaint! Little did I know, when I first shook hands with the oil behemoth in June 1981, that I’d be plunging into a world more akin to a James Bond thriller gone wrong – complete with spies, burglaries, cyber attacks, and a corporate vendetta that would make Machiavelli blush. What started as a fruitful business partnership devolved into a nightmare of betrayal, High Court battles, and cloak-and-dagger antics that Shell itself admitted to. Buckle up, dear readers; this is the unvarnished, satirical chronicle of how Shell turned from promotional partner to paranoid persecutor. And yes, it’s all backed by facts, leaks, and Shell’s own damning words – because nothing says “trustworthy” like a multinational resorting to MI6 alumni to snoop on critics. read more

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Shell’s “Green” Venture Portfolio Under Review — Translation: The Climate Side Hustle Isn’t Paying Fast Enough

Feb 26th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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In yet another sign that “transition” remains a flexible word inside oil major boardrooms, Shell has placed parts of its Shell Ventures portfolio under strategic review, according to a February 26, 2026 Reuters report.

The message from The Hague (or rather, London, depending on which corporate reincarnation you’re referencing): if it doesn’t pump cash like LNG, it may not survive the cull.

The Venture That Was Supposed to Prove It Cared

Shell Ventures was launched to signal that the company was serious about investing in the future: clean tech, mobility platforms, energy storage, grid software, hydrogen plays, and various digital decarbonisation tools. It was the corporate equivalent of buying an electric bicycle while continuing to own the motorway. read more

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Shell Tightens Its Grip on Raízen: Climate Hero or Sugar-Coated Survival Strategy?

Feb 26th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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In a world where oil majors are constantly accused of clinging to the past, Shell appears determined to prove it can also cling to sugar.

According to Reuters (25 February 2026) and regional energy reports, Shell is prepared to provide a larger financial backstop to its Brazilian sugar and ethanol joint venture, Raízen, as the company navigates debt pressures and expansion challenges. Sources cited by Reuters say Shell is ready to step up support if necessary — reinforcing its commitment to one of the world’s largest biofuels producers. read more

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Shell’s METLEN LNG Deal: Europe’s Energy Security — or Another Golden Age for Gas?

Feb 26th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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In the latest chapter of Europe’s great post-2022 energy reshuffle, Shell has signed a long-term LNG supply agreement with Greece’s METLEN Energy & Metals — a deal that underscores one unavoidable reality of 2025–2026: Europe may talk green, but it is still running on gas.

The agreement positions Shell as a key supplier of liquefied natural gas into the Greek and broader southeastern European market, reinforcing its already formidable role in Europe’s evolving gas infrastructure. On paper, it is a logical move. In practice, it is another reminder that the continent’s energy transition remains tightly tethered to hydrocarbons. read more

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30 November 2023: Posted by John Donovan

The content below is sourced from current verifiable customer reviews of Shell Energy published on Trustpilot.
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Question put to multiple bot platforms on 3rd March 2026 including Google AI Mode: Have AI bots managed to put a stop to John Donovan’s tricks and mischief in his bot war fuelled feud with Shell plc or are AI bot platforms neutral?