Royal Dutch/Shell: Human Rights In Nigeria

Background Introduction Shell is mining reserves of oil and gas in coastal plains of Nigeria where Ogonians live. Shell's Nigerian business accounts for 11-12% of production, with annual turnover of $ 200 million. On the contrary, the economic collapse of Nigeria in the thirty years after independence was due to the fact that political failure could not utilize their abilities or reduce dependence on oil. The immature political system eventually resulted in a military coup d'etat, followed by the rule of full rights, which ruthless governed Nigeria.

An attempt to conduct x-ray inspections of imported products from multinational companies in Nigeria's Niger - Delta region is the first step in the study of oil exploration, production, refining and sales, focusing on natural gas, chemicals and real estate in the Netherlands in the Netherlands Consider a company, Shell Nigeria. Nevertheless, Shell Oil has about 3,000 major companies in 100 countries and is considered to have a large global spread (Madelayt, 1999: 4). By the way, Shell is believed to have received about 15% of the world's oil from the Nigerian Delta of Nigeria, after that environmental hazard has a strong influence on local residents. And the speed of unregulated toxic waste entering the high seas

It is clear that Shell is responsible for the problems in the Ogoni region of Nigeria. Since 1958, Royal Dutch Shell has mined oil on the land of Ogoni. Since then, it is estimated that the company extracted 30 billion dollars of oil from this area. However, Shell did not make any contribution to local people and the environment. The societal and environmental costs of oil production deliberately ignored by Shell and not trying to take responsibility are very extensive: all of these are due to the poor social responsibility of Shell in Nigeria. In developing countries, they often do not comply with environmental regulations commonly adopted in developed countries. Clearly the oil production system in Nigeria is more biased towards Shell and the government's elite than the local population. Therefore indigenous peoples are actually in a much more poverty state.

Royal Dutch / Shell is a market leader in Europe, founded in 1907, a group of Britain and the Netherlands merged to face the dominant position of a standard oil company. Over time, the group is one of the world's largest companies. Operations in over 100 countries are oil and gas exploration and production, refining and sales, chemicals, coal mining, polymers, crop protection products, and various metals. In Europe, Shell is the second largest refinery next to Exxon Mobil, with an annual output of 70 million tons and a sales volume of 65 million tons. In marketing, it was a retail Web site with 12% market share and 8,500 retail Web sites. After the Gulf War in 1990, Shell discovered that the stock is as big as the price fell. The decline in profits urged a series of internal restructurings that prevented analysts from mobilizing in general. 1996