Following a 2011 United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) report that exposed the damage caused by the spills from Shell pipelines in the Ogoniland region, the Anglo-Dutch player promised to clean up.

However, after examining the fields, human rights group Amnesty International said in its “Clean it up: Shell's false claims about oil spills in the Niger Delta” report that Shell’s claims are “blatantly false”.

Amnesty