Archives: Incidents
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17/07/2001 | Motiva Enterprises (Co-owned by Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Co-owned by Saudi Aramco) | Leaking and corroded tank -unfit for use - explodes; one worker killed, many others injured; approximately 99,000 gallons of spent sulfuric acid spilled into Delaware river for days; thousands of dead fish and crabs; sulfuric acid released into the air. Criminal fines - $10 million. | Delaware City, DE, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Negligence, Pollution | |
| 27/06/2006 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Inspection finds two Shell facilities lacking proper spill buckets. Penalty - $1,200. | Guam | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 01/11/2001 | Frontier El Dorado Refining LLC (Co-owned by Equilon Enterprises) (Co-owned by Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) | Investigation suggests hazardous wastes or constituents released from oil refinery may have contaminated groundwater, surface water and soil. | Kansas City, MO, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 17/10/2006 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (General Services Administration (GSA)) | EPA orders companies to cleanup wastes - including benzene, naphthalene, ethylbenzene - contaminating the surrounding soil and groundwater of Superfund site - Shell $398,821.91 & GSA $809,729.34 | Del Amo, CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 31/12/1972 - 01/01/1940 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (General Services Administration (GSA)) | Synthetic rubber manufacturing plant responsible for soil and groundwater contamination; VOCs, PAHs, pesticides, PCBs and heavy metals. Cleanup costs for Shell and GSA - $55 million. | Del Amo, CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 13/07/2009 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | EPA orders Shell's facility to clean up releases of hazardous waste (petroleum, benzene, toluene, and other petroleum constituents and additives) polluting groundwater and nearby wetlands. | Piti, Guam | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 16/07/2001 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Motiva Enterprises) | Companies fined for Clean Air Act violations at petroleum terminal loading rack; excess VOC emissions (22.5 tn). Civil penalty - $390,155. | Bridgeport, CT, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 31/12/2001 - 01/01/2000 | Equilon Enterprises (Part Of Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) | Failure to accurately report chemical releases (cyclohexane and MTBE) used at facility - $16,500. | Bakersfield, CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Fraud | |
| 05/10/2009 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell Guam failed to submit required toxic chemical reports in 2007 - $7,950. | Guam | US Environmental Protection Agency | Fraud | |
| 09/08/1999 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Motiva Enterprises) | Shell receives Clean Air Act violation notice for loading a total of 28.4 million gallons of gasoline onto barges without required vapor recovery equipment for seven days in 1997. This loading resulted in about 56 tons of uncontrolled VOCs emissions. | New England, CT, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution |