Bonga Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel, Nigeria. Shell Nigeria says it has not received a formal report on the matter. A damning investigative report by a Dutch television station has said that employees of Shell Petroleum Development Company in Nigeria sponsored oil pipelines vandalism in the country for their personal gain. “According to sources, Shell employees profit from these intentional oil leaks by pocketing money from cleanup budgets,” the television station Zembla, which begins the airing of the investigative report on oil leaks in Nigeria, December 10, said in a release sent to PREMIUM TIMES. Zembla said the investigation, which took 18 months and looked at various leaks from 2010 till the present day, was done by a Dutch environmentalist organisation Milieudefensie, and that it (Zembla) verified its contents. “It appears that Shell’s subsidiary SPDC is aware of these accusations but has done nothing about them. The Dutch […]