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Flaring

[...] a decrease from around 40% in 2018. In Nigeria, investments since 2010 by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd Joint Venture aimed at capturing associated gas and commercialising it through domestic and export markets have decreased routine flaring by around 80% between 2010 and [...]

Preparing for emergencies

[...] and theft-related spills occurred in Nigeria, except in 2016 (0.001 thousand tonnes) and 2015 (0.005 thousand tonnes). The number of spills caused by sabotage and theft rose to 156 in 2019 from 109 in 2018. The volume of these spills increased to 2.0 thousand tonnes in 2019 from 1.6 thousand [...]

Living by our principles

[...] court case regarding our investment in Nigerian oil block OPL 245 and the 2011 settlement of litigation pertaining to that block is currently ongoing in Milan, Italy. We are under investigation for the same matter in other jurisdictions (see Note 25 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in our [...]

Waste

[...] waste. For example, Shell companies in Nigeria, which use around 9 million single-use plastic bottles in their operations each year, pledged to reduce plastic by 50% in 2020 and 90% by 2021 (see Plastics). Shell is looking at options to reduce the amount of material used in packaging by selling [...]

Process safety

[...] events related to sabotage and theft in Nigeria are recorded separately. There were nine Tier 1 events in 2019, the same as in 2018. Visit www.shell.com/safety for more on Shell and safety. An engineer inspects equipment at Shell Canada’s shale oil facilities at Fox Creek.

Managing safety

[...] incidents that occurred in 2019. In Nigeria, two contractors died when an oil and gas maintenance vessel they were travelling on capsized in bad weather. A Shell employee died after falling from height into water while a vessel was being moored at Shell’s Mormon Island facility in the USA. A [...]