Malabu bribe: Italian court postpones trial of Dan Etete, Shell, ENI An Italian court in Milan has postponed till May 14 the start of a trial of executives of Royal Dutch Shell, ENI and former Nigerian oil minister, Dan Etete, over alleged bribery in connection...

UK Court Quashes Nigerian Oil Spill Case Against Shell The Court of Appeal in the United Kingdom has dismissed a claim for compensation against Royal Dutch Shell by two Nigerian communities, affected by oil spill. The communities in Rivers State, Ogale and Bille began two separate...

Rivers, Shell sign MoU on gas supply The Rivers Government and Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the distribution of gas to industries in the Greater Port Harcourt area and its environs. The signing of the MoU was announced in...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has discharged its interim forfeiture order on the controversial Oil Prospecting Licence 245, an oil block which is at the centre of the $1.2bn Malabu oil scam. Justice John Tsoho lifted the order of interim forfeiture in his ruling...

Ruling on two separate applications filed by Shell Oil Exploration Nigeria Ltd and AGIP Oil seeking to set aside the order made by the Federal High Court Abuja on January 26, 2017, which granted temporary forfeiture of the Oil Prospective Licence (OPL 245) block...

Nigeria’s anti-graft agency on Thursday filed corruption charges against oil majors Shell and Eni over a $1.3 billion offshore block deal. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) accused 11 defendants of “official corruption”, according to court documents. Shell, Eni and Agip, Eni’s Nigerian subsidiary, are...