How Much Money has Shell Spent on Global 'Security'?

How Much Money has Shell Spent on Global 'Security'? This graphic is based on leaked internal data on Shell's global security spending between 2007 and 2009, during the height of armed insurgency in Nigeria's Niger Delta region. For more details see Platform's briefing, Dirty Work: Shell's security spending in Nigeria and beyond. Shell's Global Security Spending by Region 2008 Nigeria $148,000,000 Americas EU & Russia $64,000,000 $69,000,000 Corporate Center $10,000,000 MENA $8,000,000 Oceania Sub Saharan Africa South Asia $8,500,000 $6,000,000 $7,500,000 Shell Oil Products Africa $2,000,000 East Asia $20,000,000 Total: $343,000,000 Nigeria vs. Rest of the World 2007 - 2009 $450m $400m 3 year total $350m $300m Nigeria $383m $250m Rest of the World $617m $200m Total $1bn $150m $100m $50m $0 2007 2008 2009 Countries reporting 46 67 unknown Nigeria Rest of the World Shell's Global Security Spending by Category 2008 Total: $343,000,000 Other 37% Third parties 29% $99,000,000 $127,000,000 Severence 0.3% $1,000,000 Contractors 10% $35,000,000 Capital expenditure 10% $32,500,000 Staff costs 14% $48,500,000 Example: Shell 'stakeholders' in Nigeria • Armed militants • Criminal gangs • Hostile youth groups Example: Government security forces in Nigeria • Mobile Police, known locally as the 'kill and go' • Military • Navy • Joint Task Force (all the above) Example: Private military and security contractors in Nigeria • Armed militants • G4S • Control Risks Group 1,000 estimated number of people killed every year in the Niger Delta conflict. http://platformlondon.org Sources: Shell security spending data leaked to Platform, August 2012. 2009 spending figures from Platform interview with Shell manager, 7 October 2011. Casualty figures from International Crisis Group, (2006); and Report of Technical Committee on the Niger Delta, vol. 1 (2008) Design by Sara Nilsson, August 2012