Inside track: Bill Campbell, a former Shell International group auditor in The HaguePhoto: CHRISTOPHER HOPSON

Shell in the safety firing line

SHELL is facing a major new top management scandal following startling disclosures of how it persistently ignored critical safety warnings on its UK flagship Brent field in the North Sea by running its four platforms "flat out" while allegedly violating operating procedures, falsifying maintenance records and corruptly failing to maintain safety critical equipment.

15 June 2006 23:02 GMT Updated 15 June 2006 23:02 GMT

In an exclusive interview with Upstream, Bill Campbell, a former Shell International group auditor in The Hague, reveals how in the late 1990s the top directors of Shell Expro in Aberdeen, the UK arm of the Anglo-Dutch group, allegedly sanctioned a policy widely known as Touch Fuck All (TFA), whereby offshore installation managers were told to stop any work with the potential to cause unplanned shutdowns.

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Shell in the safety firing line