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Shell’s Leaky Empire: How Insider Information Keeps Escaping The Oil Giant

By John Donovan

A tabloid-satirical rewrite of Chapter 11 of the John Donovan Shell archive: “Shell insider information.”

Source chapter: CHAPTER 11: Shell insider information, first published 30 October 2018 and later modified on 29 June 2026.

Chapter 11 screenshot exhibit concerning Shell insider information
Source archive screenshot from Chapter 11 on Shell insider information.

Every giant corporation has a fantasy version of itself: disciplined, confidential, on-message and guarded by enough procedure to make a filing cabinet salute. Chapter 11 is about what happens when that fantasy meets the awkward little realities of human beings, email, court records, leaks, Subject Access Requests and the occasional executive pressing the wrong button. read more

*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. *All created and supported by internet wizz, Nick Gill.

Cut, run, and leave the mess: UN experts call out Shell’s Nigeria ‘experiment’

Cut, run, and leave the mess: UN experts call out Shell’s Nigeria ‘experiment’—and the sin-stock’s biggest backers keep cashing the cheques”

Divestment without detox: when the clean-up plan is ‘exit.’

Shell—the greedy, ruthless, polluting oil giant, otherwise known as the world’s favorite sin stock—has discovered a thrilling new frontier in corporate innovation: sell the onshore assets, skip the proper clean-up, and let someone else hold the bag. Unfortunately for Shell, a phalanx of United Nations human-rights experts just said the quiet part out loud—formally warning that recent asset sell-offs in Nigeria may have breached international human-rights law and “lacked transparency.” The experts expressed “grave concern” and accused the oil majors of using “Nigeria… as an experiment for divestment without clean-up.”  read more

*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. *All created and supported by internet wizz, Nick Gill.

5: Royal Dutch Shell initiatives

It is not all a bad news story. Royal Dutch Shell has been responsible for many important initiatives in relation to the environment, encouraging business start-ups, supporting charitable causes and other good works. Shell has also had a long successful relationship with Ferrari.

(Information from WIKIMEDIA COMMONS: The above Shell logo image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired and its author is anonymous.)

Royal Dutch Shell is responsible for many important initiatives in relation to the environment, encouraging business start-ups, supporting charitable causes and other good works. With regard to the environment, Shell has however been accused of “greenwash“, betraying new energy future promises, and in March 2009, announced its intention to abandon wind, solar and hydropower in favour of biofuels.

The Shell Foundation

The Shell Foundation launched in 1997, is a worldwide, social investment initiative to concentrate on working with external partners to promote sustainable development. It is an independent registered charity which has three Shell executives on its board balanced by an equal number of independent non-executive directors, in line with UK Charity Commission rules. read more

*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. *All created and supported by internet wizz, Nick Gill.