THE SHELL NIGERIA FILES
Shell’s Privilege Problem: A Technical Warning, an Audit Nobody Wanted — and the Fear of What the Record Might Show
Disclosed emails show a Shell technical executive objecting to continued operation of a pipeline outside integrity standards — and being told future disagreements of that seriousness should be put “under legal privilege”
Some corporate documents are damaging because they reveal what went wrong.
Others are more troubling because they reveal what executives feared might one day be discoverable about what went wrong.
Two sets of internal Shell emails now public through the HEDA Resource Centre deserve particularly close attention.
The first concerns a 2008 decision to continue operating the old Nembe Creek Trunk Line, despite a senior technical executive’s objections.
The second concerns a proposed 2013 audit of Shell’s management of crude-oil theft between 2009 and 2012.
THE SHELL LEAKS FILES
By John Donovan
THE SHELL LEAKS FILES
