“In the present case, the reprehensibility of Shell’s conduct is heightened by its intentional deceit of the interest owners whose oil proceeds it held for their benefit…”
NANCY FULLER HEBBLE AND OTHERS vs SHELL OIL CO.
In May 2008, an Oklahoma jury ordered Shell Oil Co. to pay a whopping $66 million to five royalty owners for their share of the proceeds from a highly lucrative oil well dug in the early-1970s. The payments were awarded to two families who owned the land where Shell drilled for oil, but were never informed when Shell struck a huge reserve and built a well on the land in 1973.
Shell had threatened to drag the case out and in line with this policy, appealed against the jury verdict on various grounds. As Richard Wiseman, the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer of Royal Dutch Shell plc is aware, the same threat to make litigation “drawn out and difficult” was once made to us in writing by Nigel Rowley of Mackrell Turner Garrett, the London law firm representing Shell, where Mr Wiseman begun his career as a lawyer. Shell had not realised that we too can also be difficult.
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