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April 7th, 2018:

JP Morgan says it knew ex-minister linked to firm in Nigeria oilfield deal

Shell said in April last year that it “always knew” the Nigerian government would compensate Malabu and that Etete was involved. It had previously told Reuters only that payments went to the Nigerian government.

Julia Payne, Libby George: 7 April 2018

LONDON (Reuters) – JP Morgan Chase has acknowledged it knew a former Nigerian oil minister convicted of money laundering would benefit when it transferred over $800 million of government funds to a company he controlled, according to a court document seen by Reuters.

JP Morgan made the acknowledgement in its legal response to a lawsuit filed by Nigeria over transactions made by the U.S. bank when Royal Dutch Shell and Eni bought offshore oilfield OPL 245 from Malabu Oil and Gas in 2011. read more

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Facebook may need group therapy to fix its engineering culture

By Janet Guyon: 7 April 201

Two decades ago, like Facebook now, Shell found itself in an existential crisis, on the defense against environmentalists and political activists. Run by Dutch and British men, Shell was then the world’s most profitable company, and also viewed itself as the most responsible of the big oil firms; it was particularly concerned about how its global operations affected the world. As part of an effort to fix Shell’s culture and readjust its vision, the entire management team took the Myers-Briggs test. read more

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Shell foresaw climate dangers in 1988 and understood Big Oil’s big role

April 5 at 4:28 PM

A Dutch journalist has uncovered Royal Dutch Shell documents as old as 1988 that showed the oil company understood the gravity of climate change, the company’s large contribution to it and how hard it would be to stop it.

The 1988 report titled “The Greenhouse Effect” calculated that the Shell group alone was contributing 4 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions through its oil, natural gas and coal products. “By the time global warming becomes detectable it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even to stabilize the situation,” the report warned. read more

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