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Shell Abandons Push for Oil Spill Case to Be Heard in Nigeria
Todd Gillespie and Laura Hurst, Bloomberg News A Shell logo sits on a totem sign at a Royal Dutch Shell Plc fuel filling station in Rayleigh, U.K., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Royal Dutch Shell Plc will cut as many as 9,000 jobs as Covid-19 accelerates a company-wide restructuring into low-carbon energy. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg , Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) Royal Dutch Shell Plc has abandoned its final attempt to argue that a major lawsuit brought by thousands of Nigerians over an oil spill in the West African country should be heard in Nigeria rather than the U.K.