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Part 1 — Fact-Based Deep Dive

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos Energy and Shell are pushing ahead with oil and gas exploration in the US Gulf, in a move that says plenty about where big energy capital now feels welcome — and where it does not.

According to The Times, Ineos Energy is teaming up with Shell to explore opportunities near Shell’s Appomattox platform in the Gulf of Mexico, after Ineos acquired a 21 per cent stake in the platform from China’s CNOOC. The partnership is focused on developing Shell’s Fort Sumter discovery, understood to hold more than 125 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent, identifying further exploration wells, and assessing broader development opportunities in the area. read more

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SHELL’S GREAT AUSTRALIAN GAS VANISHING ACT: Billions Out, Answers Missing, Tax Man Still Waiting

Apr 24th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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There are moments in public life when corporate theatre becomes so beautifully absurd that satire can simply put its feet up and let the executives do the work.

Enter Shell Australia.

At a federal inquiry into the taxation of gas resources, Shell was asked the sort of savage, ambush-style questions that only the most hostile parliamentary inquisitors could possibly dream up.

Questions like: How much gas did you export?

And: What was your local revenue?

Terrifying stuff. Almost unfair. How could a global gas giant possibly be expected to know how much gas it sold?

According to reports of the hearing, Shell Australia representatives were able to tell senators that the company paid $109 million in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax in the latest year — after reportedly paying none in the previous decade — and cited $2.9 billion in taxes paid on $6.2 billion in after-tax profits in 2024. But when pressed on basic figures such as export volumes and full local revenue, the answers appeared to become considerably less crisp. read more

GAS PANIC DOWN UNDER: BILLIONS POURED INTO LNG… AND AUSTRALIA STILL FACES A SHORTAGE?

Apr 17th, 2026

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Big Oil’s grand export bonanza rolls on—while Australians are warned they might run short at home. Yes, really.

🛢️ THE GREAT LNG GOLD RUSH (AGAIN)

Australia is once again throwing billions at liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects—because apparently, when in doubt, build more fossil fuel infrastructure and ask questions later.

According to industry reporting, a fresh wave of massive LNG developments is advancing across the country, even as warnings grow louder about looming domestic gas shortages.

Let’s translate that:

One of the world’s biggest gas exporters… might not have enough gas for itself.

You couldn’t script it better.

💰 EXPORT SUPERPOWER… DOMESTIC HEADACHE

Australia is already a global LNG heavyweight—built on an eye-watering investment binge of more than A$290 billion across major projects over the past decade. read more

Shell’s LNG Boom Forecast: 54% More Gas, 100% More Contradictions

Mar 17th, 2026

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A massive LNG tanker labelled “Energy Transition” crossing a bridge made of pipelines. The bridge stretches endlessly into the horizon, never reaching land. Below, rising sea levels and melting icebergs. Shell executives stand on deck pointing forward, while climate scientists look concerned in the water below.

Shell has delivered its latest vision of the future — and, surprise, it looks remarkably like the past, just chilled to minus 162°C.

According to its newest outlook, global demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is expected to rise by at least 54% by 2040, reinforcing the company’s long-standing belief that the world simply cannot quit fossil fuels — even as it promises to do exactly that. read more

The Shell Annual Report: A Masterclass in Corporate Poetry

Mar 13th, 2026

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A satirical reading of the 2025 report, where billions flow, adjectives multiply, and reality occasionally peeks through the footnotes

Introduction: The World’s Most Expensive Bedtime Story

Every year, large corporations release a document that attempts to explain how they made vast sums of money while simultaneously saving the planet, empowering communities, and respecting nature.

Shell’s 2025 Annual Report is no exception. Running hundreds of pages, it is a masterpiece of corporate literature — a genre where verbs are optimistic, adjectives are plentiful, and inconvenient details tend to hide in footnotes.

At first glance, the report tells a reassuring story: strong shareholder returns, disciplined strategy, and progress on the energy transition. Look slightly closer and the narrative becomes more entertaining. read more

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

Feb 26th, 2026

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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

Shell’s $24 Billion “Energy Transition”: Selling LNG to Adnoc While the Climate Clock Ticks

Feb 26th, 2026

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In the ever-evolving theatre of global energy, Shell plc appears to be rehearsing another familiar act: trim the portfolio, cash in on hydrocarbons, and call it “discipline.”

According to multiple industry reports in February 2026, Shell is in talks with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) regarding the potential sale of its stake in a major Australian liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. Estimates suggest the stake could be valued at up to $24 billion. That is not pocket change — even for a supermajor. read more

Shell’s Great Australian Escape: Fossil Fuels, Fickle Strategy and the LNG Laundromat

Feb 12th, 2026

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By John Donovan

The Exit Interview Nobody Asked For

Shell Plc — the global oil and gas supermajor once synonymous with “the future of energy” — is performing what might be the most dramatic corporate version of “it’s not you, it’s me” in fossil fuels. Its latest act is to divest a roughly 16.67% stake in Australia’s North West Shelf (NWS) liquefied natural gas (LNG) project — a facility that helped define Australia’s decades-long gas boom — in a maneuver analysts say signals more than a portfolio tweak. It’s the unravelling of a 50-year partnership and perhaps a metaphor for Shell’s strategic identity crisis. read more

Shell vs Venture Global: When LNG Contracts Meet the Fine Print—and the Missing Emails

Jan 29th, 2026

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Shell plc likes to present itself as a disciplined, rules-based operator in global energy markets — a company that respects contracts, arbitration outcomes, and the sanctity of carefully worded legal agreements.

Unless, of course, it loses.

Then the fine print suddenly becomes a battleground, and the missing emails start to matter a great deal.

From ‘Binding Arbitration’ to ‘Let’s See the Emails’

Shell’s long-running dispute with U.S. LNG producer Venture Global was supposed to end neatly with arbitration. In August 2025, it did — and not in Shell’s favour. read more

Is There a Long-Term Pattern in Shell’s Risk Management Failures?

Jan 17th, 2026

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Is There a Long-Term Pattern in Shell’s Risk Management Failures?

UPDATED 18 JAN 2026 WITH ILLUMINATING REPLIES FROM A NUMBER OF AI PLATFORMS

This article presents a structured question put to ChatGPT and the platform’s full response, published to enable comparison with other AI systems and to illustrate how AI re-processes corporate history in the modern information environment.

Question put to ChatGPT:

The Past, the Archive, and the Algorithm: Is There a Persistent Pattern in Shell’s Worker-Safety and Public-Health Risk Management in the Age of AI?

I am seeking a research-based analysis (not speculation) of whether there is any meaningful continuity or correlation between several historically separated episodes that are alleged to reflect a similar organisational posture toward health, safety, and human lives—taking into account that large language models can now ingest, cross-reference, and recontextualise entire multi-volume corporate histories alongside modern regulatory and safety records. read more

Shell’s Favorite Climate Strategy: $3.5 Billion Share Buybacks and a Warming Planet

Oct 31st, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Shell has once again demonstrated its unwavering commitment to the principle that matters most to it: maximize returns now and allow consequences to remain someone else’s problem later.

According to Reuters, Shell reported third-quarter adjusted earnings of $5.4 billion, exceeding market expectations:

“Shell reported third-quarter adjusted earnings of $5.4 billion.”

— Reuters, 30 Oct 2025

Immediately following those earnings, MSN reported that Shell launched another $3.5 billion share buyback:

“Shell launched another $3.5 billion share buyback.”

— MSN Money

Meanwhile, The Independent, via Newsbreak, noted:

“Shell posts stronger-than-expected profits as more cash handed to investors.” read more

SHELL’S CASUALTIES AND THE INVESTMENT FUNDS THAT PAY FOR THEM

Oct 25th, 2025

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THE WAGES OF SIN: A CHRONICLE OF SHELL’S CASUALTIES AND THE INVESTMENT FUNDS THAT PAY FOR THEM

It is a grand, old-world notion that a corporation can possess a soul, or rather, that the absence of one can be measured by its balance sheet. If that is the case, then Shell is less a corporation and more a meticulously catalogued exhibit in the museum of moral bankruptcy—the ultimate sin stock. Its history is not merely a record of drilling and profit but a chilling, chronological catalogue of calculated risks taken with other people’s lives: its employees, its customers, and the communities unfortunate enough to share a postcode with its extraction sites. read more

Shell to Trump: Don’t Smash the Turbines — We’re Busy Burning Gas

Oct 8th, 2025

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Shell’s top U.S. executive has done the unthinkable: publicly critiqued a White House that is (mostly) friendly to oil and gas. In an interview flagged by Reuters, Colette Hirstius, President of Shell USA, warned that the Trump administration’s decision to halt fully permitted offshore wind projects is “very damaging” to investment. She added: “I think uncertainty in the regulatory environment is very damaging. However far the pendulum swings one way, its likely that its going to swing just as far the other way.” And, crucially: “I certainly would like to see those projects that have been permitted in the past continue to be developed.” read more

Shell Bets the Planet on LNG: Ten More Years of “Lower-Carbon” Storytelling

Oct 2nd, 2025

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Shell CEO Wael Sawan has finally shown his hand: the company’s main contribution to the energy industry for the next decade will be liquefied natural gas (LNG). Not wind. Not solar. Not storage. LNG. The same fossil fuel dressed up as a climate saviour.

What Sawan Said

At the Economic Club of New York, Sawan declared:

“We are absolutely committed to this sector.”

He argued LNG is “one of the most effective fuels” for lowering emissions because it can displace coal in Asia, citing India and China. (Reuters) read more

Shell Built a Floating Cathedral to Gas – Then Spent Years Praying the Lights Stay On

Aug 27th, 2025

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Let’s talk about Shell’s Prelude FLNG, a.k.a. the biggest corporate midlife-crisis purchase ever parked on the ocean. Shell didn’t just build a platform; they launched a 488-meter-long, 74-meter-wide, 600,000-tonne floating factory that maritime media straight-faced called “the largest offshore structure ever built”—and, yes, “it displaces six times as much water as the largest aircraft carrier.”

Anchored some 475 km (295 miles) off Australia, Prelude was moored with 16 giant chains to a 93-meter turret—“secured to the seabed by mooring lines”—so the behemoth could spin with cyclones and still keep pumping. Very metal. Very expensive. And very on-brand for a company that thinks the solution to climate and cost risk is… more steel. read more

Shell Loses LNG Case to Venture Global

Aug 13th, 2025

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The planet-wrecking colossus known as Shell — proudly backed by Wall Street heavyweight BlackRock — just lost its $1.7 billion arbitration battle against Venture Global. The scrappy U.S. LNG upstart sold cargoes on the spot market for huge profits instead of delivering them to Shell under long-term contracts. Shell whined: “Trust in long-term contracts is the bedrock of the LNG industry.” Translation: “We’re fine making billions, but only if it’s on our terms.”

Venture Global, which banked nearly $7 billion in 2022–23, crowed: “We have consistently honored these agreements without exception.” The ruling leaves Shell sulking and the rest of us wondering if corporate karma actually exists — because for once, Big Oil didn’t win. read more

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Part 1 — Fact-Based Deep Dive

There are moments in public life when corporate theatre becomes so beautifully absurd that satire can simply put its feet up and let the executives do the work.

Big Oil’s grand export bonanza rolls on—while Australians are warned they might run short at home. Yes, really.

🛢️ THE GREAT LNG GOLD RUSH (AGAIN)

💰 EXPORT SUPERPOWER… DOMESTIC HEADACHE

A satirical reading of the 2025 report, where billions flow, adjectives multiply, and reality occasionally peeks through the footnotes

Introduction: The World’s Most Expensive Bedtime Story

The Venture That Was Supposed to Prove It Cared

The Exit Interview Nobody Asked For

From ‘Binding Arbitration’ to ‘Let’s See the Emails’

Is There a Long-Term Pattern in Shell’s Risk Management Failures?

UPDATED 18 JAN 2026 WITH ILLUMINATING REPLIES FROM A NUMBER OF AI PLATFORMS

Question put to ChatGPT:

Shell has once again demonstrated its unwavering commitment to the principle that matters most to it: maximize returns now and allow consequences to remain someone else’s problem later.

THE WAGES OF SIN: A CHRONICLE OF SHELL’S CASUALTIES AND THE INVESTMENT FUNDS THAT PAY FOR THEM

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