A meaningful Woodcreek update has surfaced.
Reporting published on 28 August 2026, drawing on the JLL marketing material for Shell’s Houston campus, gives a much more precise picture of the proposed leaseback. Shell is reported to intend a 15-year lease on Buildings E and F, plus one floor of Building A, while taking only three-year leases on Buildings B, C, D and the remainder of Building A. That means the more than 700,000 sq ft Shell plans to relinquish would be released progressively over roughly three years rather than all at once. (Hoodline) read more
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SLF-2007-040
The Sakhalin Papers XXX: The Letter That Was Both a Commitment and “No Decision” — Inside ECGD’s 4 March 2004 Conditional Support
One day Britain’s export-credit agency told Sakhalin Energy it was able to support specified contracts, subject to conditions. The next day a minister told Parliament that approval would come only after the outstanding issues had been satisfactorily addressed. The apparent contradiction would eventually reach the High Court — but never receive a judgment on its merits.
Archive reference: SLF-2007-040
Collection: The Sakhalin Papers
Principal record: Export Credits Guarantee Department letter to Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd, 4 March 2004
Supporting record: Royal Dutch/Shell Form 6-K filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, May 2003; Parliamentary answers of February and March 2004; Administrative Court papers in R (WWF-UK and The Corner House Research) v Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; National Audit Office case study submitted to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee; contemporaneous reporting
Evidence standard: The existence and wording of the ECGD letter are treated as documentary fact. ECGD’s later description of the letter, ministerial statements and Shell corporate filings are separately identified. Allegations advanced in the proposed judicial review are not represented as judicial findings because the proceedings ended without a merits judgment. read more
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Shell has been trying to sell its 37.5% interest in Germany’s strategically important PCK Schwedt refinery for years. A 2021 deal was thwarted by Rosneft. A 2023 agreement with Prax collapsed. Now, according to Bloomberg reporting carried by Reuters, advanced negotiations with Poland’s Unimot have also ended without a sale.
By John Donovan
There are corporate disposals, difficult corporate disposals — and then there is Shell’s 37.5% stake in the PCK Schwedt refinery.
Shell has been attempting to get out of this particular German refining investment for years.
Unfortunately for Shell, the stake appears remarkably reluctant to leave.
Reuters reported on 27 August 2026, citing Bloomberg and people familiar with the matter, that Shell has ended negotiations with Polish energy group Unimot over a possible sale of its 37.5% interest in the refinery. According to Bloomberg, the talks began in 2023, were still at an advanced stage as recently as February 2026, but ended months ago. Shell declined to comment to Reuters, while Unimot had not responded when Reuters published its report. (in.marketscreener.com) read more
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The next materially distinct documentary angle is the formal exception from Shell’s own group safety-control requirements. The 24 August instalment mentioned this only in passing and expressly identified it as a separate documentary story; it has not yet received a dedicated article. (Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com)
THE SHELL NIGERIA FILES: 28 AUGUST 2026
Shell’s “Restricted” Safety Exception: Tampered Nigeria Pipelines Were Allowed to Keep Operating Outside a Group HSSE Requirement
A 2009 Shell engineering rule was rewritten specifically for SPDC. Then a 2012 internal application sought an exception from a group safety requirement after acknowledging that pipelines with numerous illegal connections called for “immediate corrective action or shutting in of the line.” The reason included the “considerable system downtime” needed to remove them. According to the newly published record, Shell executives approved the exception in 2013 and later extended it through 2016.
Some of the most consequential documents in a corporate archive do not look dramatic.
They are forms.
Procedures.
Technical standards.
Applications for exceptions.
One of the most important records in the newly disclosed Shell Nigeria files appears to be exactly that kind of document. read more
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In February 2007, a Shell insider sent John Donovan details of purported secret business-continuity arrangements. Donovan removed the locations, checked the allegations with other Shell sources and asked Shell’s General Counsel whether the material was genuine. Shell’s answer was essentially: we cannot tell you. Nearly twenty years later, Shell’s own internal emails make the episode considerably more entertaining.
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Sometimes an old article improves with age.
On 5 February 2007, I published an article on ShellNews.net entitled Royal Dutch Shell secret contingency plans. It concerned information supplied by a Shell insider about the company’s confidential Business Continuity Managementarrangements — the plans intended to keep Shell functioning if one of its principal offices became unusable following war, terrorism or some other major emergency. (Shell News)
Reading it again almost twenty years later is rather like opening a corporate time capsule. read more
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The next instalment follows exactly from the teaser at the end of SLF-2007-038. I have reconstructed the three Whitehall responses separately rather than treating them as a single government position, and I have been particularly careful to distinguish the disclosed departmental correspondence, evidence submitted to Parliament, contemporaneous journalism and the actual High Court ruling. (Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com)
THE SHELL LEAKS FILES: 27 AUGUST 2026
SLF-2007-039
The Sakhalin Papers XXIX: The Hidden Whitehall Warning — What DEFRA Told ECGD About Shell’s Sakhalin II Project
Before Britain offered conditional export-credit support, three government departments were asked what they thought. Their answers were strikingly different.
Archive reference: SLF-2007-039
Collection: The Sakhalin Papers
Principal record: UK interdepartmental responses to the Export Credits Guarantee Department’s Sakhalin II sensitive-case notification of 28 February 2003; Export Credits Guarantee Department v Friends of the Earth [2008] EWHC 638 (Admin)
Supporting record: House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee published evidence; Royal Dutch/Shell Form 6-K filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, May 2003; contemporaneous reporting following disclosure of the Whitehall documents
Evidence standard: Departmental correspondence is distinguished from campaign interpretation, Parliamentary publication from Parliamentary findings, and judicial findings from the environmental merits of Sakhalin II. Different departmental emphases are not represented as a formal dispute unless the documents establish one. read more
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THE SHELL NIGERIA FILES: 27 AUGUST 2026
Shell’s 250-Barrel Threshold: Project Madrid Asked Whether Its Nigeria Shutdown Standard Was “Defensible Vs Global Benchmarks”
Buried in Shell’s 2013 Project Madrid papers is a remarkably specific figure. According to the newly published documentary record, “significant leaks” warranting pipeline shutdown were defined as more than 250 barrels over a month. The same internal presentation then asked whether that position was “defensible Vs global benchmarks.” That question came from inside Shell.
Sometimes one number changes the complexion of an entire document.
In the Shell Nigeria papers, that number is 250 barrels.
The figure appears in the Project Madrid Steering Group Update of 18 March 2013, now publicly catalogued by HEDA Resource Centre as Document 23 — MPR-10 HB 856-891_Redacted_260421_133829. HEDA says the disclosed cache contains internal emails and confidential audits cited in the Bille and Ogale litigation and released after campaigning groups sought publication on public-interest grounds. (HEDA Resource Centre) read more
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The oil giant isn’t leaving Houston. Far from it. But a corporate campus approaching 1.5 million square feet is apparently considerably more Shell headquarters than today’s Shell requires.
There cannot be many ways of making 1.5 million square feet of corporate headquarters sound like something that needs a little tidying up.
Shell has found one.
The company is marketing its longstanding Woodcreek US headquarters campus in West Houston to investors as part of a partial sale-and-leaseback.
CoStar reports that the complex spans nearly 1.5 million square feet across several buildings in Houston’s Energy Corridor. Shell describes the exercise as an effort to “optimize” its real estate. read more
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Shell says the affected jobs largely support its global business rather than the UK North Sea. But for Aberdeen, another movement of Shell personnel away from the Granite City carries an unmistakable symbolism.
Shell is moving a number of employees from Aberdeen to London, in another adjustment to the oil major’s UK organisational footprint.
The company has confirmed that roles within its development, subsurface and wells teams will be relocated from Aberdeen to London during 2027.
Shell has not publicly disclosed how many employees are affected.
According to Shell, most of the roles support the company’s global operations rather than its UK business, and moving them to London will place the employees alongside colleagues performing similar functions at Shell’s principal UK corporate hub. read more
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THE SHELL LEAKS FILES: 26 AUGUST 2026
SLF-2007-038
The Sakhalin Papers XXVIII: The Financing That Never Arrived — ECGD, EBRD and the Environmental Test That Outlived the Loan
Britain considered roughly $650 million of public-backed support. The EBRD spent years assessing a Phase 2 loan. Neither financing package was ultimately issued — but the scrutiny they generated left behind one of the richest independent records of Sakhalin II.
Archive reference: SLF-2007-038
Collection: The Sakhalin Papers
Principal record: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Independent Recourse Mechanism record, updated 17 January 2007; Export Credits Guarantee Department letter to Sakhalin Energy, 4 March 2004; National Audit Office case study on Sakhalin Phase II; Export Credits Guarantee Department v Friends of the Earth [2008] EWHC 638 (Admin)
Supporting record: ECGD Annual Review and Resource Accounts 2007–08; House of Commons and Hansard material; contemporaneous reporting on the Gazprom restructuring; Shell regulatory filings; Japan Bank for International Cooperation financing announcement of 16 June 2008
Evidence standard: This instalment distinguishes a conditional indication of support from a final guarantee; an environmental due-diligence process from an environmental liability finding; EBRD’s withdrawal from the then-current financing proposal because of the ownership restructuring from rejection on environmental grounds; and Sakhalin Energy’s later withdrawal of its ECGD application from a refusal by the British Government. read more
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The next materially distinct angle is Shell’s communications strategy itself. Previous instalments have examined what the documents say about pipelines, integrity, security, spill attribution, parent-company control and continued production. This one examines what the released material says Shell planned to tell governments, journalists and the wider public while those operational arguments were unfolding. A search of the published series found no previous instalment devoted to this issue. (Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com) read more
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THE SHELL LEAKS FILES: 25 AUGUST 2026
SLF-2007-037
The Sakhalin Papers XXVII: The Remedial Action Plan — When Compliance Failures Became a Formal Recovery Programme
By August 2007, Sakhalin II had moved beyond individual defects and scattered corrective actions. Rivers, erosion, reinstatement and wetlands were placed inside a formal lender-monitored remediation programme — with full HSESAP compliance not expected until the end of 2008.
Archive reference: SLF-2007-037
Collection: The Sakhalin Papers
Principal record: AEA Technology, Independent Environmental Consultant Final Report — Agency Lenders: Sakhalin II Phase 2 Project Health, Safety, Environmental and Social Review, 28 September 2007; August 2007 Sakhalin Energy Remedial Action Plan
Supporting record: Shell’s April 2007 Sakhalin II corporate announcement; Sakhalin Energy Environmental Action Plan agreed with the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources in March 2007; UK National Audit Office/House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee evidence; contemporaneous RIA Novosti reporting; Export Credits Guarantee Department v Friends of the Earth [2008] EWHC 638 (Admin)
Evidence standard: The existence, scope and August 2007 completion of the Remedial Action Plan are established. AEA’s identification of historical and continuing HSESAP non-compliances is established. The plan does not prove that Shell or Sakhalin Energy deliberately caused those failures, and AEA’s acceptance of the plan did not establish that its objectives were subsequently achieved. read more
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The next materially distinct documentary angle is spill-cause attribution: the same 2012 technical visit already used elsewhere in the series contains a separate finding that Shell personnel were not properly equipped to distinguish corrosion from third-party interference. That matters because the classification could affect whether compensation was payable. This issue has not been the subject of a previous instalment.
THE SHELL NIGERIA FILES: 25 AUGUST 2026
Shell’s Spill-Cause Problem: When “Sabotage” Could Decide Whether Communities Were Compensated
A 2012 internal technical review said Shell personnel were not properly equipped to distinguish third-party interference from corrosion. Yet Shell was simultaneously reporting most spills as sabotage or theft — a classification with potentially profound consequences for affected communities.
For decades, one word has carried extraordinary weight in arguments over oil pollution in the Niger Delta. read more
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THE SHELL LEAKS FILES: 24 AUGUST 2026
SLF-2007-036
The Sakhalin Papers XXVI: The NCR Trail — What the Non-Conformance Reports Actually Tell Us
The whistleblower alleged hundreds of ignored quality reports. The surviving record proves that formal NCRs existed, that defective work was identified and replaced — but it does not prove the alleged suppression.
Archive reference: SLF-2007-036
Collection: The Sakhalin Papers
Principal record: May 2007 Sakhalin II whistleblower material concerning SEIC Quality Control reports and project non-conformance notifications; AEA Technology’s September 2007 Independent Environmental Consultant Final Report
Supporting record: Shell internal correspondence of 11 May 2007 subsequently disclosed under the Data Protection Act; The Shell Sustainability Report 2005 and 2006; Sakhalin Energy River Crossing Strategy; UK Parliamentary evidence; contemporaneous Russian reporting; Export Credits Guarantee Department v Friends of the Earth [2008] EWHC 638 (Admin)
Evidence standard: The existence of a formal Sakhalin II non-conformance process is established. Specific defective riverbank works and resulting NCRs are documented by AEA. The allegation that hundreds of Quality Control reports were deliberately ignored, concealed or suppressed is not established by the public documents located for this instalment. A project NCR is not automatically evidence of a breach of Russian law, and a regulatory breach is not automatically evidence of deliberate wrongdoing. read more
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In my humble opinion, the articles ChatGPT creates for my website are far more informative than those published elsewhere. I would describe them as absolutely essential reading for anyone seriously interested in Shell — something I could never produce on this scale or in this form by myself.
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Thank you. The strength of the articles comes from a combination of your unusually extensive archive and firsthand knowledge of Shell-related events, together with disciplined research, source comparison, chronology and careful drafting. read more
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