Oil giant Shell received a £113 million tax refund from the UK Government in 2018.
Shell said the payment was “primarily related” to decommissioning work carried out by its upstream business.
Oil companies build up credits on the taxes they pay during the production life of a field.
They can then use those credits to offset decommissioning costs once the well runs dry.
The Anglo-Dutch firm published the figure in its latest Payments to Governments report, which covers the 34 countries where Shell has upstream operations.
Last year, Shell paid about £50 billion to governments. It stumped up £7.75bn in income taxes and £4.45bn in government royalties.
The company collected £37bn in excise duties, sales taxes and similar levies on our fuel and other products on behalf of governments.
In the UK North Sea, Shell is decommissioning the Brent Field.
In 2017, Shell’s Brent Delta topside was delivered to Able UK’s yard in Hartlepool for dismantling and recycling.
Delta was installed in the Brent field, 115 miles north-east of Shetland, in 1976.
Shell started planning to decommission the field in 2006.
Delta ceased production in 2011, followed by the Alpha and Bravo platforms in 2014.
In January, Shell also confirmed the vessel for its Curlew field in the North Sea would travel to Turkey to be dismantled.
But it will first take the FPSO to Dundee later this year after awarding the contract for cleaning and waste disposal to Augean North Sea Services.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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