Greenpeace team says it has obtained leaked records of countries asking scientists to water down upcoming scientific report on climate change
Japail Oil & Maritime Services will raise money to expand into 12 countries in Africa over the next five years.
South Africa’s biggest fund manager is "in the money already" when it comes to returns on its multibillion-rand investment in Camac Energy.
Government will take a stake in a new gas and oil venture, but energy companies say it could lead to significant delays in planned investment.
Shell has begun talks with Nigeria’s Bodo community on compensation and a cleanup after the largest loss of a mangrove habitat caused by oil spills.
Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to buy Cove Energy for £1.12-billion, outbidding PTT Exploration and Production for access to East Africa’s gas reserves.
Shell is struggling to pay off $1-billion that it owes Iran for crude oil because EU and US sanctions make it almost impossible to process payments.
Royal Dutch Shell is eyeing opportunities in South Sudan, which last July broke from Khartoum, taking with it two-thirds of Sudan’s oil production.
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/ 24 December 2011
A faulty pipe from an offshore oil field run by Royal Dutch Shell PLC near Nigeria’s coast spewed crude oil into the ocean for as much as 25 hours.
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/ 9 November 2011
Gabon’s oil union has relaunched talks with the government about a dispute over the use of expatriate labour, averting the threat of a strike for now.
The landscape of banana trees and a pineapple farm where some Ogoni live looks bleak, stained with oil, in air filled with dark smoke.
The burst North Sea pipeline is not leaking nearly as much oil as the Gulf of Mexico spill last year, but it’s the worst incident there in 10 years.
Shell said a North Sea pipeline continued to leak oil on Saturday and that it had been seeping crude for two days before the company declared it.
The Advertising Standards Authority are investigating Royal Dutch Shell adverts about hydraulic fracturing, the Treasure Karoo Action Group has said.
Stage set for showdown over ‘misleading, biased, unprocedural and unconstitutional’ application.
Royal Dutch Shell has awarded Saipem a $101-million contract to build a petrol pipeline system in Nigeria which it hopes will reduce flaring.
Royal Dutch Shell has shortlisted bidders for four Nigerian onshore oil blocks it has put up for sale but financing challenges could yet undo plans.
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/ 8 February 2011
Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell is targeting potential untapped shale gas reserves in South Africa where landowners are readying for a showdown.
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/ 3 February 2011
Royal Dutch Shell is facing opposition to its plans to seek shale gas in South Africa’s semi-desert Karoo region.
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/ 17 January 2011
Oil major Royal Dutch Shell plans to explore for shale gas in South Africa’s Karoo basin.
Using tubes to funnel polluted water into his small boat, Nigerian teenager Daniel Muukor helps to "mop up" the latest oil spill in the Niger Delta.
The secretive world of Middle East oil deals will be thrown open in Baghdad next week when a contract auction is broadcast live.
Nigeria’s main militant group said it had blown up a well-head in a Royal Dutch Shell oil field in Delta state late on Thursday.
A pre-trial conference scheduled in the lawsuit brought by Nigerian plaintiffs against Royal Dutch Shell has been delayed until Wednesday.
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/ 8 February 2009
Nigerian militants attacked a gas plant operated by Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta on Saturday and warned of more attacks to come.
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/ 21 September 2008
Nigeria’s main militant group said on Sunday it had begun a ceasefire after a week of clashes with the military and attacks on oil installations.
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/ 20 September 2008
The main militant group in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta said on Saturday it had destroyed a major oil pipeline belonging to Royal Dutch Shell.
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/ 16 September 2008
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell on Tuesday confirmed an overnight attack on one of its pipelines in southern Nigeria.
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/ 16 September 2008
Nigerian militants launched assaults on two oil installations in the Niger Delta in the heaviest fighting there in two years, sources said on Tuesday.
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/ 15 September 2008
Nigerian militants on Monday attacked a Shell-operated oil installation, forcing the evacuation of nearly 100 people.
World energy powers embarked on a new level of dialogue to rein in runaway oil prices at an emergency meeting in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Sunday.
A string of deals with foreign firms to plug financing gaps in Nigeria’s oil industry will help unlock significant shut-in potential in the world’s eighth biggest exporter. Nigeria has signed deals worth -billion with Exxon Mobil and Total over the past week and is finalising a similar agreement with Royal Dutch Shell.