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Linda Cook (businesswoman) Linda Zarda Cook (born June 4, 1958) is an American businesswoman serving as CEO of Harbour Energy since 2014. She was previously CEO of Shell Gas & Power, part of Royal Dutch Shell, in the Netherlands until 2009. Cook was named the 44th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine in September 2007.
Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) [1] was a Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and environmental activist. [2] Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, [3] in the Niger Delta, has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and has suffered extreme environmental damage from ...
The order is declared provisionally enforceable. * After losing in the Hague District Court, Shell dropped "Royal Dutch" from its name, and moved its headquarters to London. [15] Milieudefensie v Royal Dutch Shell (2021) is a human rights law and tort law case heard by the district court of The Hague in the Netherlands in 2021 related to ...
Ben van Beurden. Bernardus Cornelis Adriana Margriet "Ben" van Beurden (born 23 April 1958) is a Dutch businessman who was the CEO of Shell plc from 2014 to 2022. He joined Shell in 1983, after earning a master's degree in chemical engineering from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. [1]
When Royal Dutch and Shell consolidated into a single company on 20 July 2005, the company's senior official became the chairman of the board of directors. Aad Jacobs, 2005–2006. Jorma Ollila, 2006–2015. Charles Holliday, 2015–2021. Andrew Mackenzie, 2021–.
Charges included human rights abuses against the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta, summary execution, torture, arbitrary arrest, and wrongful death. After 12 years of Shell petitioning the court not to hear the cases, [1] they were heard 26 May 2009. [2] On June 8, 2009, Shell settled out-of-court with the Saro-Wiwa family for $15.5 million. [2] [3]
Ogoni Nine. The Ogoni Nine were a group of nine activists from the Ogoni region of Nigeria who opposed the operating practices of the Royal Dutch Shell oil corporation in the Niger Delta region. The military government in Nigeria was threatened by their work and arrested them for murders of four Ogoni chiefs.
Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) is a joint venture between the Government of Brunei and Shell. [ 130 ] The British Malayan Petroleum Company (BMPC), owned by Royal Dutch Shell, first found commercial amounts of oil in 1929. [ 131 ] It currently produces 350,000 barrels of oil and gas equivalent per day. [ 132 ]