Industry
Energy
5 organizations and 21 assessed claims in energy.
Organizations
- Eni S.p.A.Italy. 4 claims, 4 cases.
- Enron CorporationUnited States. 4 claims, 2 cases.
- Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - PetrobrasBrazil. 4 claims, 3 cases.
- Process and Industrial Developments LimitedBritish Virgin Islands. 5 claims, 2 cases.
- Shell plcUnited Kingdom. 4 claims, 3 cases.
Claims
- Supported10
- Partly supported2
- Contradicted3
- Outdated3
- Unresolved3
- Unresolved60Leigh Day, lawyers for the Bille and Ogale communities, said in June 2025 that the High Court found Shell plc and its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for legacy oil pollution.
- Supported95The English Commercial Court set aside P&ID's arbitral awards against Nigeria on 23 October 2023, holding they were obtained by fraud.
- Supported89The Commercial Court found in October 2023 that P&ID's side gave knowingly false evidence in the arbitration, kept paying bribes during it and improperly retained Nigeria's internal legal documents.
- Outdated96Arbitral awards required Nigeria to pay P&ID US$6.6 billion plus 7% interest, a liability reported to exceed US$11 billion.Process and Industrial Developments LimitedPress report, 23 October 20233 records citedCorporate status
- Contradicted91P&ID denied paying bribes and blamed the failure of the gas deal and Nigeria's arbitration loss on institutional incompetence.
- Unresolved49Poder360 reported in September 2023 that Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Dias Toffoli annulled all evidence from Odebrecht's 2016 leniency agreement used in Lava Jato accusations and convictions.
- Partly supported86Shell said in December 2022 that it continued to believe the Oruma, Goi and Ikot Ada Udo spills in the Dutch case were caused by sabotage.
- Supported78Reuters reported in December 2022 that Shell would pay EUR 15 million to Nigerian communities to settle the Dutch Oruma, Goi and Ikot Ada Udo spill case.
- Supported81Eni said on 19 July 2022 that the OPL 245 criminal case had ended and that the March 2021 acquittals of Eni and its managers were full and final.
- Supported79Eni said in March 2021 that the allegations of international corruption in its Congo probe ceased to exist after the charge was reduced to undue inducement, and that its EUR 11.8 million deal was not an admission of guilt.
- Contradicted82The proposition that Eni and Shell were proven to have paid bribes to Nigerian politicians through the US$1.1 billion OPL 245 payment, as alleged by the Milan prosecutor and summarised by Global Witness in March 2021.
- Outdated64Global Witness said in March 2021 that two middlemen had already been found guilty for their role in the OPL 245 deal in a separate trial.
- Supported65Nigeria's EFCC said on 19 September 2019 that the Federal High Court in Abuja convicted two P&ID directors on eleven counts and ordered P&ID wound up in Nigeria with its assets forfeited.Process and Industrial Developments LimitedRegulator statement, 19 September 20191 record citedFraud
- Supported88The US Justice Department said in September 2018 that Petrobras executives facilitated hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to Brazilian politicians and parties and concealed them in the company's books.
- Partly supported79Petrobras said in January 2018 that it was a victim of the Lava Jato scheme.
- Supported75Petrobras agreed in January 2018 to pay US$2.95 billion to settle the US securities class action without admitting wrongdoing.
- Contradicted81An April 2017 Africanews headline said Shell admitted paying bribes to a former Nigerian petroleum minister in the OPL 245 deal.
- Supported93The Supreme Court held in Skilling v. United States, decided 24 June 2010, that the honest-services fraud statute reaches only bribery and kickback schemes and that Skilling's conduct fell outside it.
- Supported96A May 2006 DOJ release said a federal jury convicted former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling on 19 of the 28 counts he faced, covering conspiracy, securities fraud, insider trading and false statements to auditors.
- Outdated94A May 2006 DOJ release said a federal jury convicted Enron founder Kenneth Lay on all six counts he faced at the Houston trial.
- Unresolved67The SEC said on 8 July 2004 that Kenneth Lay took part in a scheme to defraud and sold more than US$90 million of Enron stock on inside information.