Royal_Dutch_Shell

qas: question: In how many countries does Shell have operations?
answers: text: over 90

question: How many barrels of oil equivalent does Shell produce per day?
answers: text: 3.1 million

question: Shell has how many service stations worldwide?
answers: text: 44,000

question: What is the name of Shell's subsidiary in the United States?
answers: text: Shell Oil Company

question: Shell has minor renewable energy activities in which two areas?
answers: text: biofuels and wind

question: How many barrels of gas does Shell produce per day?

question: How many service stations does Shell have in the US?

question: What does Shell sell 3.1 million barrels of per day?

question: How many countries does Shell have renewable energy activities in?

question: Which aspect of the oil and gas industry is Shell not active in?
context: Shell was vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It has minor renewable energy activities in the form of biofuels and wind. It has operations in over 90 countries, produces around 3.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and has 44,000 service stations worldwide. Shell Oil Company, its subsidiary in the United States, is one of its largest businesses.

qas: question: The Royal Dutch Shell Group was created through the merger of which two rival companies?
answers: text: the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd of the United Kingdom

question: What was the main reason for the creation of the Royal Dutch Shell Group?
answers: text: the need to compete globally with Standard Oil

question: In what year was the Royal Dutch Shell Group created?
answers: text: 1907

question: In what year was the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company founded?
answers: text: 1890

question: Why was the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company created?
answers: text: to develop an oilfield in Sumatra

question: What was August Kessler born?

question: What was Hugo Loudon's brother?

question: When was the Samuel brothers' father's antique company created?

question: What was the name of Marcus Samuel's father's antique company?
context: In February 1907, the Royal Dutch Shell Group was created through the amalgamation of two rival companies: the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd of the United Kingdom. It was a move largely driven by the need to compete globally with Standard Oil. The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company was a Dutch company founded in 1890 to develop an oilfield in Sumatra, and initially led by August Kessler, Hugo Loudon, and Henri Deterding. The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company (the quotation marks were part of the legal name) was a British company, founded in 1897 by Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, and his brother Samuel Samuel. Their father had owned an antique company in Houndsditch, London, which expanded in 1833 to import and sell sea-shells, after which the company "Shell" took its name.

qas: question: What percent of ownership did the merger award the Dutch branch?
answers: text: 60

question: What prevented a full-scale merger of the two companies?
answers: text: National patriotic sensibilities

question: What was the primary function of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company?
answers: text: to direct the transport and storage of the products

question: The new firm operated as what type of company?
answers: text: a dual-listed company

question: What percent of ownership of the new company was awarded to the British?
answers: text: 40

question: What encouraged a full-scale merger of the two companies?

question: What british company was in charge at The Hague?

question: What city were both branches of the new firm located in?

question: What was the name of the Dutch company in charge of transportation and storage?

question: Why did the two companies function as a dual-unit partnership for business purposes?
context: For various reasons, the new firm operated as a dual-listed company, whereby the merging companies maintained their legal existence, but operated as a single-unit partnership for business purposes. The terms of the merger gave 60 percent ownership of the new group to the Dutch arm and 40 percent to the British. National patriotic sensibilities would not permit a full-scale merger or takeover of either of the two companies. The Dutch company, Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij, was in charge at The Hague of production and manufacture. A British company was formed, called the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, based in London, to direct the transport and storage of the products.

qas: question: In what year was it announced that the Shell Group would move to a single capital structure?
answers: text: 2004

question: What was the name of the Shell Group's new parent company?
answers: text: Royal Dutch Shell plc

question: On what exchange was the Shell Group's new parent company primarily listed?
answers: text: the London Stock Exchange

question: Where was the Royal Dutch Shell plc headquartered?
answers: text: The Hague, Netherlands

question: What was the cause of the period of turmoil prior to the announcement that the Shell Group would move to a single capital structure?
answers: text: the revelation that Shell had been overstating its oil reserves

question: When was it discovered Shell had been overstating its oil reserves?

question: When was Shell listed on the LSE?

question: When was Royal Dutch Petroleum added to the NYSE?

question: Contrary to the original ownership, shareholders were given what disadvantage of the Shell group?

question: What Netherlands city housed the registered office?
context: In November 2004, following a period of turmoil caused by the revelation that Shell had been overstating its oil reserves, it was announced that the Shell Group would move to a single capital structure, creating a new parent company to be named Royal Dutch Shell plc, with its primary listing on the London Stock Exchange, a secondary listing on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, its headquarters and tax residency in The Hague, Netherlands and its registered office in London. The unification was completed on 20 July 2005 and the original owners delisted their companies from the respective exchanges. On 20 July 2005, the Shell Transport & Trading Company plc was delisted from the LSE, where as, Royal Dutch Petroleum Company from NYSE on 18 November 2005. The shares of the company were issued at a 60/40 advantage for the shareholders of Royal Dutch in line with the original ownership of the Shell Group.

qas: question: In what year did Shell and Cosan form a 50:50 joint venture?
answers: text: 2010

question: What was the name of the 50:50 joint venture formed by Shell and Cosan?
answers: text: Raízen

question: Why did Shell sell some of its assets in March 2010?
answers: text: to meet the cost of a planned $28bn capital spending programme

question: How much did Shell plan to raise from the sale of its assets?
answers: text: $2–3bn

question: Royal Dutch Shell agreed to acquire all the business of what entity in June 2010?
answers: text: East Resources

question: Who did Shell split with in 2010?

question: When did Shell form a joint venture with Raizen?

question: How much were the East Resources' gas fields worth?

question: How much was Shell's liquid petroleum gas business worth?

question: What did Shell buy from Cosan for $4.7 million?
context: In February 2010 Shell and Cosan formed a 50:50 joint-venture, Raízen, comprising all of Cosan's Brazilian ethanol, energy generation, fuel distribution and sugar activities, and all of Shell's Brazilian retail fuel and aviation distribution businesses. In March 2010, Shell announced the sale of some of its assets, including its liquid petroleum gas (LPG) business, to meet the cost of a planned $28bn capital spending programme. Shell invited buyers to submit indicative bids, due by 22 March, with a plan to raise $2–3bn from the sale. In June 2010, Royal Dutch Shell agreed to acquire all the business of East Resources for a cash consideration of $4.7 billion. The transaction included East Resources' tight gas fields.

qas: question: Which assets did the corporation begin to sell in 2013?
answers: text: US shale gas

question: What was the value of the cancelled gas project that was to be contstructed in Louisiana?
answers: text: US$20 billion

question: The appointment of a new CEO in 2014 came prior to what announcement?
answers: text: the corporation's overall performance in 2013 was 38 per cent lower than 2012

question: In what year did the corporation sell the majority of its Australian assets?
answers: text: 2014

question: What was the value of assets the corporation planned to sell leading up to 2015?
answers: text: US$15 billion

question: Who was the CEO in 2013?

question: How much was the 2013 sale of US shale gas assets worth?

question: Where did Shell begin selling US shale gas assets?

question: How much higher was the company's performance in 2013?

question: What is the worth of the Australian assets Shell sold in US dollars?
context: Over the course of 2013, the corporation began the sale of its US shale gas assets and cancelled a US$20 billion gas project that was to be constructed in the US state of Louisiana. A new CEO Ben van Beurden was appointed in January 2014, prior to the announcement that the corporation's overall performance in 2013 was 38 per cent lower than 2012—the value of Shell's shares fell by 3 per cent as a result. Following the sale of the majority of its Australian assets in February 2014, the corporation plans to sell a further US$15 billion worth of assets in the period leading up to 2015, with deals announced in Australia, Brazil and Italy.

qas: question: What is a cause of severe environmental issues in the Niger Delta?
answers: text: The presence of companies like Shell

question: Many pipelines owned by Shell in the Niger Delta are described as what?
answers: text: old and corroded

question: Shell has accepted responsibility for keeping its pipelines in what condition?
answers: text: new

question: In contrast to its acceptance of responsibility for keeping the pipelines new, Shell has denied what?
answers: text: responsibility for environmental causes

question: Environmental and human rights groups have created action plans to do what?
answers: text: boycott Shell

question: Where has Shell tried to keep its pipelines in pristine conditions?

question: When did Friends of the Earth begin protesting Shell?

question: How many allegations did the Dutch court approve?

question: Who did Amnesty International have to pay for one count of pollution?

question: When did Shell acknowledge responsibility for the environmental issues?
context: The presence of companies like Shell in the Niger-Delta has led to extreme environmental issues in the Niger Delta. Many pipelines in the Niger-Delta owned by Shell are old and corroded. Shell has acknowledged its responsibility for keeping the pipelines new but has also denied responsibility for environmental causes. This has led to mass protests from the Niger-Delta inhabitants and Amnesty International against Shell and Friends of the Earth Netherlands. It has also led to action plans to boycott Shell by environmental groups, and human rights groups. In January 2013, a Dutch court rejected four out of five allegations brought against the firm over oil pollution in the Niger Delta but found a subsidiary guilty of one case of pollution, ordering compensation to be paid to a Nigerian farmer.

qas: question: The name Shell is connected to what company?
answers: text: The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company

question: What was the purpose of the created of The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company?
answers: text: to sell seashells to London collectors

question: What did the younger founder of The "Shell" Transport and Trading company discover while collecting seashell specimens in the Caspian Sea area?
answers: text: there was potential in exporting lamp oil from the region

question: By what year did the company have a fleet of oil tankers operating in the Caspian Sea region?
answers: text: 1907

question: The company operated a refinery on what river for several decades?
answers: text: Thames

question: Where was the Murex built?

question: When was the refinery at Shell Haven built?

question: What river did Marcus collect shells from in 1907?

question: When was Marcus Samuel born?

question: How long did the younger Samuel collect specimens from the Caspian Sea?
context: The name Shell is linked to The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company. In 1833, the founder's father, Marcus Samuel, founded an import business to sell seashells to London collectors. When collecting seashell specimens in the Caspian Sea area in 1892, the younger Samuel realised there was potential in exporting lamp oil from the region and commissioned the world's first purpose-built oil tanker, the Murex (Latin for a type of snail shell), to enter this market; by 1907 the company had a fleet. Although for several decades the company had a refinery at Shell Haven on the Thames, there is no evidence of this having provided the name.

qas: question: What is Shell's primary business?
answers: text: the management of a vertically integrated oil company

question: The development of what two types of exptertise established the core competencies on which the company was founded?
answers: text: technical and commercial

question: One of the most important business in which Shell is involved is what?
answers: text: natural gas

question: Each business now seeks to become what type of unit?
answers: text: self-supporting

question: The business model that provided significant economies of scale and barriers to entry is called what?
answers: text: vertically integrated

question: What is the least important business for Shell?

question: What did self-supporting units provide for the company?

question: What types of expertise have been removed from the business?

question: Which stage does not require technical and commercial expertise?

question: What company is moving away from having self-supported units?
context: Shell's primary business is the management of a vertically integrated oil company. The development of technical and commercial expertise in all stages of this vertical integration, from the initial search for oil (exploration) through its harvesting (production), transportation, refining and finally trading and marketing established the core competencies on which the company was founded. Similar competencies were required for natural gas, which has become one of the most important businesses in which Shell is involved, and which contributes a significant proportion of the company's profits. While the vertically integrated business model provided significant economies of scale and barriers to entry, each business now seeks to be a self-supporting unit without subsidies from other parts of the company.

qas: question: Shell was traditionally considered what type of business worldwide?
answers: text: heavily decentralised

question: Shell operated companies in how many countries?
answers: text: over 100

question: A good deal of technical and financial direction for the upstream came from what entity?
answers: text: the central offices in The Hague

question: What types of companies existed in a few major oil and gas production centers?
answers: text: "exploration and production"

question: How many centralised businesses does Shell have?

question: Where did much of the direction come for the downstream come from?

question: What production centre was located in Nigeria?

question: How many countries were large exploration and production companies in?

question: What company did Shell partner with in Brunei for the joint venture Shell Expro?
context: Traditionally, Shell was a heavily decentralised business worldwide (especially in the downstream) with companies in over 100 countries, each of which operated with a high degree of independence. The upstream tended to be far more centralised with much of the technical and financial direction coming from the central offices in The Hague. Nevertheless, there were very large "exploration and production" companies in a few major oil and gas production centres such as the United Kingdom (Shell Expro, a Joint Venture with Exxon), Nigeria, Brunei, and Oman.

qas: question: Downstream operations currently includes what type of business?
answers: text: chemicals

question: Downstream operations produces what percent of Shell's profits worldwide?
answers: text: a third

question: How many petrol stationsare included in Shell's downstream operations global network?
answers: text: more than 40,000

question: Prior to the 1990s, Shell's downstream businesses were essentially considered what kind of businesses?
answers: text: local

question: In what way did the business paradigm of Shell's downstream operations begin to change?
answers: text: the independence of operating companies around the world was gradually reduced

question: How much of Shell's profits did Downstream account for in 1990?

question: When did Shell switch to treating businesses as local, independent companies?

question: How many oil refineries does Shell have?

question: How many total petrol stations does Shell have?

question: How many of Shell's operations are controlled in London instead of Hague?
context: Downstream operations, which now also includes the chemicals business, generates a third of Shell's profits worldwide and is known for its global network of more than 40,000 petrol stations and its 47 oil refineries. The downstream business, which in some countries also included oil refining, generally included a retail petrol station network, lubricants manufacture and marketing, industrial fuel and lubricants sales and a host of other product/market sectors such as LPG and bitumen. The practice in Shell was that these businesses were essentially local and that they were best managed by local "operating companies" – often with middle and senior management reinforced by expatriates. In the 1990s, this paradigm began to change, and the independence of operating companies around the world was gradually reduced. Today, virtually all of Shell's operations in various businesses are much more directly managed from London and The Hague. The autonomy of "operating companies" has been largely removed, as more "global businesses" have been created.

qas: question: What did Shell announce in April 2010?
answers: text: its intention to divest from downstream business of all African countries except South Africa and Egypt to Vitol and "Helios"

question: What happened in several countries in response to Shell's April 2010 announcement?
answers: text: protests and strikes broke out

question: In June 2013, Shell announced a review of its operations in which country?
answers: text: Nigeria

question: In August 2014, Shell announced it was in the process of doing what?
answers: text: finalizing the sale of its interests in four Nigerian oil fields.

question: What did Shell indicate was a reason for the strategic review of operations in Nigeria?
answers: text: assets could be divested

question: What did Shell switch from South Africa and Egypt to?

question: When did protests break out in South Africa?

question: How many Egyptian fields did Shell sell in 2014?

question: Where did Shell divest its upstream activities from? 

question: When did the company announce a review of South Africa?
context: In April 2010, Shell announced its intention to divest from downstream business of all African countries except South Africa and Egypt to Vitol and "Helios". In several countries such as Tunisia, protests and strikes broke out. Shell denied rumours of the sellout. Shell continues however upstream activities/extracting crude oil in the oil-rich Niger Delta as well as downstream/commercial activities in South Africa. In June 2013, the company announced a strategic review of its operations in Nigeria, hinting that assets could be divested. In August 2014, the company disclosed it was in the process of finalizing the sale of its interests in four Nigerian oil fields.

qas: question: What company was the owner of the 7-Eleven brand in Scandinavia?
answers: text: Reitan Group

question: In what year did Royal Dutch Shell and Reitan Group announce an agreement?
answers: text: 2007

question: How many service stations did Royal Dutch Shell and Reitan Group agree to re-brand?
answers: text: some 269

question: Shell announced it was in the process of doing what in April 2010?
answers: text: trying to find a potential buyer for all of its operations in Finland

question: In October 2010, Shell sold what to St1?
answers: text: gas stations and the heavy vehicle fuel supply networks in Finland and Sweden, along with a refinery located in Gothenburg, Sweden

question: How many service stations did Royal Dutch Shell and Reitan Group re-brand in Norway alone?

question: How long will it take to rebrand the service stations in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark?

question: Who did Shell by gas stations and heavy vehicle supply networks from?

question: When did St1 and Reitan Group announce an agreement?

question: What parent company did Shell sell to in April 2010?
context: On 27 August 2007, Royal Dutch Shell and Reitan Group, the owner of the 7-Eleven brand in Scandinavia, announced an agreement to re-brand some 269 service stations across Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, subject to obtaining regulatory approvals under the different competition laws in each country. On April 2010 Shell announced that the corporation is in process of trying to find a potential buyer for all of its operations in Finland and is doing similar market research concerning Swedish operations. On October 2010 Shell's gas stations and the heavy vehicle fuel supply networks in Finland and Sweden, along with a refinery located in Gothenburg, Sweden were sold to St1, a Finnish energy company, more precisely to its major shareholding parent company Keele Oy. Shell branded gas stations will be rebranded within maximum of five years from the acquisition and the number of gas stations is likely to be reduced. Until then the stations will operate under Shell brand licence.

qas: question: Shell Oil Company's United States business throughout its early history is described as what?
answers: text: substantially independent

question: On which exchange was Shell Oil Company's U.S. stock historically traded?
answers: text: the NYSE

question: Shell Oil Company historically had little direct involvement from what entity in the running of its American businesses?
answers: text: the group's central offices

question: In what year did Royal Dutch Shell make a bid to purchase approximately 30% of Shell Oil Company's shares?
answers: text: 1984

question: What did Royal Dutch Shell's bid to purchase Shell Oil Company's shares lead to?
answers: text: a court case

question: Shell's early history involved a lot of involvement from what?

question: What percentage of the Shell Oil Company did Royal Dutch Shell own in 1984?

question: How much did the court case cost?

question: When did Royal Dutch Shell try to sell its shares?

question: Who approved of the Royal Dutch shell buyout?
context: Through most of Shell's early history, the Shell Oil Company business in the United States was substantially independent with its stock being traded on the NYSE and with little direct involvement from the group's central offices in the running of the American business. However, in 1984, Royal Dutch Shell made a bid to purchase those shares of Shell Oil Company it did not own (around 30%) and despite opposition from some minority shareholders, which led to a court case, Shell completed the buyout for a sum of $5.7 billion.

qas: question: The final investment decision for what was finalized by Royal Dutch Shell in May 2011?
answers: text: the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility

question: The remote offshore Prelude field was discovered where?
answers: text: off Australia's northwestern coast

question: The Prelude field was estimated to contain how many cubic feet of natural gas reserves?
answers: text: 3 trillion

question: On what developments was FLNG technology based?
answers: text: liquefied natural gas (LNG)

question: FLNG technology faciliates what?
answers: text: the exploitation of untapped natural gas reserves located in remote areas

question: When did Royal Dutch Shell make its first investment into FLNG?

question: When was FLNG technology created?

question: What is located off Australia's southwestern coast?

question: Where were FLNG technologies pioneered?

question: When was the FLNG facility built?
context: On 20 May 2011, Royal Dutch Shell's final investment decision for the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility was finalized following the discovery of the remote offshore Prelude field—located off Australia's northwestern coast and estimated to contain about 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent reserves—in 2007. FLNG technology is based on liquefied natural gas (LNG) developments that were pioneered in the mid-20th century and facilitates the exploitation of untapped natural gas reserves located in remote areas, often too small to extract any other way.

qas: question: What percent of its stake in Woodside Petroleum did Shell sell in June 2014?
answers: text: 9.5%

question: Shell became a major shareholder in Woodside after a takeover attempt was blocked in what year?
answers: text: 2001

question: Who blocked the takeover attempt?
answers: text: then federal Treasurer Peter Costello

question: What percentage of shareholders voted to approve the 2014 buy-back?
answers: text: 72

question: What percentage of shareholder votes was need to approve the 2014 buy-back?
answers: text: 75

question: How much Woodside stock in Shell sell in 2001?

question: What Shell treasurer try to takeover Woodside in 2001?

question: What percentage of shareholders approved the takeover attempt?

question: What percentage of shareholders was required to block the Woodside takeover?

question: When was the meeting to decide whether or not to sell 9.5% of its Woodside Petroleum stock?
context: Shell sold 9.5% of its 23.1% stake in Woodside Petroleum in June 2014 and advised that it had reached an agreement for Woodside to buy back 9.5% of its shares at a later stage. Shell became a major shareholder in Woodside after a 2001 takeover attempt was blocked by then federal Treasurer Peter Costello and the corporation has been open about its intention to sell its stake in Woodside as part of its target to shed assets. At a general body meeting, held on 1 August 2014, 72 percent of shareholders voted to approve the buy-back, short of the 75 percent vote that was required for approval. A statement from Shell read: "Royal Dutch Shell acknowledges the outcome of Woodside Petroleum Limited's shareholders' negative vote on the selective buy-back proposal. Shell is reviewing its options in relation to its remaining 13.6 percent holding."

qas: question: Shell purchased what in 2005?
answers: text: an offshore lease

question: What did Shell initate after its 2005 purchase?
answers: text: its US$4.5 billion Arctic drilling program

question: What executive initially led the Artic drilling project?
answers: text: Pete Slaiby

question: What caused the delay in drilling after Shell's 2008 purchase?
answers: text: the refurbishment of rigs, permit delays from the relevant authorities and lawsuits

question: Shell's plans to drill in the Artic led to protests from which particular environmental group?
answers: text: Greenpeace

question: How much did the purchase of an offshore lease cost?

question: What Greenpeace executive protested the Arctic drilling?

question: What oil rig cost Shell $4.5bil?

question: When was Pete Slaiby taken off of the Arctic drilling program?

question: When was Pete Slaiby working in the North Sea?
context: Following the purchase of an offshore lease in 2005, Shell initiated its US$4.5 billion Arctic drilling program in 2006, after the corporation purchased the "Kulluk" oil rig and leased the Noble Discoverer drillship. At inception, the project was led by Pete Slaiby, a Shell executive who had previously worked in the North Sea. However, after the purchase of a second offshore lease in 2008, Shell only commenced drilling work in 2012, due to the refurbishment of rigs, permit delays from the relevant authorities and lawsuits. The plans to drill in the Arctic led to protests from environmental groups, particularly Greenpeace; furthermore, analysts in the energy field, as well as related industries, also expressed skepticism due to perceptions that drilling in the region is "too dangerous because of harsh conditions and remote locations".

qas: question: What conditions caused the delay of drilling in mid-2012?
answers: text: difficult weather

question: What worsened the situation at the end of 2012?
answers: text: the "Kulluk" incident

question: What amount had Royal Dutch Shell invested in the project by the end of 2012?
answers: text: nearly US$5 billion

question: In what year did drilling in the Arctic region begin?
answers: text: 2012

question: When did the Arctic project end?

question: Who damaged essential oil-spill equipment?

question: How much was invested in the Kulluk incident?

question: What caused the Kulluk incident?

question: What certification was the Kulluk missing?
context: Further problems hampered the Arctic project after the commencement of drilling in 2012, as Shell dealt with a series of issues that involved air permits, Coast Guard certification of a marine vessel and severe damage to essential oil-spill equipment. Additionally, difficult weather conditions resulted in the delay of drilling during mid-2012 and the already dire situation was exacerbated by the "Kulluk" incident at the end of the year. Royal Dutch Shell had invested nearly US$5 billion by this stage of the project.

qas: question: Why was the Kulluk oil rig being towed to Washington?
answers: text: to be serviced in preparation for the 2013 drilling season

question: What caused towing crews and rescue service to lose control while the Kulluk rig was in transport to Washington?
answers: text: a winter storm

question: On January 1, 2013, the Kulluk was grounded off the coast of which island?
answers: text: Sitkalidak

question: Following the incident, which magazine contacted Larry McKinney?
answers: text: Fortune

question: Larry McKinney explained that a two-month delay in drilling could do what?
answers: text: wipe out the entire drilling season

question: Where was the Kulluk oil rig being towed from?

question: Where was the Kullug grounded in December?

question: Who was the executive director of the Fortune magazine?

question: What magazine did Larry McKinney contact?

question: How long did it take to tow the Kulluk to Washington state?
context: As the Kulluk oil rig was being towed to the American state of Washington to be serviced in preparation for the 2013 drilling season, a winter storm on 27 December 2012 caused the towing crews, as well as the rescue service, to lose control of the situation. As of 1 January 2013, the Kulluk was grounded off the coast Sitkalidak Island, near the eastern end of Kodiak Island. Following the accident, a Fortune magazine contacted Larry McKinney, the executive director at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M, and he explained that "A two-month delay in the Arctic is not a two-month delay ... A two-month delay could wipe out the entire drilling season."

qas: question: Following what event was it uncertain if Shell would recommence drilling?
answers: text: the "Kulluk" incident

question: In February 2013, Shell Corporation announced that it would pause what?
answers: text: its closely watched drilling project off the Alaskan coast

question: Shell Corporation announced what in January 2014?
answers: text: the extension of the suspension of its drilling program in the Arctic

question: Which Shell Corporation executive explained the reason for the January 2014 announcement?
answers: text: van Beurden

question: What reason did the executive give for Shell's January 2014 announcement?
answers: text: the project is "under review" due to both market and internal issues.

question: What project was based in Alaska?

question: When did van Beurden become the chief executive?

question: When was the original suspension of the drilling program?

question: When did shell announce it was resuming it Alaskan project?

question: Why was van Beurden under review?
context: It was unclear if Shell would recommence drilling in mid-2013, following the "Kulluk" incident and, in February 2013, the corporation stated that it would "pause" its closely watched drilling project off the Alaskan coast in 2013, and will instead prepare for future exploration. In January 2014, the corporation announced the extension of the suspension of its drilling program in the Arctic, with chief executive van Beurden explaining that the project is "under review" due to both market and internal issues.

qas: question: For what particular reason did protesters criticize the company's environmental record in the 1990s?
answers: text: the possible pollution caused by the proposed disposal of the Brent Spar platform into the North Sea

question: What entity supported Shell during the 1990s protests?
answers: text: the UK government

question: Following the reversal of its decision, Shell published what?
answers: text: an unequivocal commitment to sustainable development

question: When was the Brent Spar platform disposed into the North Sea?

question: What government opposed the Brent Spar platform?

question: What did Shell admit was a poor environmental decision?

question: What commitment did executives condemn?

question: What did protesters in the 1990s praise?
context: In the 1990s, protesters criticised the company's environmental record, particularly the possible pollution caused by the proposed disposal of the Brent Spar platform into the North Sea. Despite support from the UK government, Shell reversed the decision under public pressure but maintained that sinking the platform would have been environmentally better. Shell subsequently published an unequivocal commitment to sustainable development, supported by executive speeches reinforcing this commitment.

qas: question: In 1996, multiple groups filed lawsuits to hold Shell accountable for what?
answers: text: alleged human rights violations in Nigeria

question: Shell was accused of participating in the execution of which southern Nigerian tribal leader?
answers: text: Ken Saro-Wiwa

question: In what year did Shell agree to settle the lawsuits filed in 1996?
answers: text: 2009

question: For what amount did Shell agree to settle the 1996 lawsuits?
answers: text: $15.5m

question: In contrast to its agreement to settle the 1996 lawsuits, Shell refused to do what?
answers: text: accepted any liability over the allegations against it

question: When was Brian Anderson hanged?

question: Brian Anderson was the leader of what tribe?

question: What was Ken Saro-Wiwa accused of?

question: How much did Shell pay to the Ogoni tribe?

question: When did Shell sue Nigeria?
context: In the beginning of 1996, several human rights groups brought cases to hold Shell accountable for alleged human rights violations in Nigeria, including summary execution, crimes against humanity, torture, inhumane treatment and arbitrary arrest and detention. In particular, Shell stood accused of collaborating in the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other leaders of the Ogoni tribe of southern Nigeria, who were hanged in 1995 by Nigeria's then military rulers. The lawsuits were brought against Royal Dutch Shell and Brian Anderson, the head of its Nigerian operation. In 2009, Shell agreed to pay $15.5m in a legal settlement. Shell has not accepted any liability over the allegations against it.

qas: question: A 2010 leaked communication revealed that Shell claimed to have inserted what into which entities?
answers: text: staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government

question: The same leaked communication revealed Shell claimed to know what?
answers: text: "everything that was being done in those ministries"

question: About what did the Shell executive boast in relation to the leaked communication?
answers: text: the Nigerian government had forgotten about the extent of Shell's infiltration

question: Documents released in 2009 showed that Shell made regular payments to which entity?
answers: text: the Nigerian military

question: For what purpose did Shell make regular payments to the entity cited in the documents released in 2009?
answers: text: to prevent protests

question: When did Shell place informants in the Nigerian government?

question: Who boasted that Shell had forgotten about the invasion?

question: What year did the documents used in the court case come from?

question: What source of information from 2010 was not used in the court case?

question: Why did the Nigerian military regularly make payments to Shell?
context: In 2010, a leaked cable revealed that Shell claims to have inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government and know "everything that was being done in those ministries", according to Shell's top executive in Nigeria. The same executive also boasted that the Nigerian government had forgotten about the extent of Shell's infiltration. Documents released in 2009 (but not used in the court case) reveal that Shell regularly made payments to the Nigerian military in order to prevent protests.

qas: question: How many Greenpeace activists boarded Fennica and Nordica in March 2012?
answers: text: 52

question: How many countries did the group of Greenpeace activists represent?
answers: text: five

question: What types of vehicles were the Fennica and Nordica?
answers: text: multipurpose icebreakers

question: Why were the Fennica and Nordica chartered?
answers: text: to support Shell's drilling rigs near Alaska

question: What was the main concern of Edward Itta?
answers: text: an oil spill could destroy the Inupiat Eskimo's hunting-and-fishing culture

question: How many countries did the icebreakers support?

question: What was the name of the Fortune magazine reporter?

question: How many activists were on the Fennica alone?

question: Who was the mayor of North Slope Borough in March 2012?

question: What borough were the Greenpeace activists from?
context: On 16 March 2012, 52 Greenpeace activists from five different countries boarded Fennica and Nordica, multipurpose icebreakers chartered to support Shell's drilling rigs near Alaska. Around the same time period, a reporter for Fortune magazine spoke with Edward Itta, an Inupiat Eskimo leader and the former mayor of the North Slope Borough, who expressed that he was conflicted about Shell's plans in the Arctic, as he was very concerned that an oil spill could destroy the Inupiat Eskimo's hunting-and-fishing culture, but his borough also received major tax revenue from oil and gas production; additionally, further revenue from energy activity was considered crucial to the future of the living standard in Itta's community.

qas: question: Why did Shell file lawsuits?
answers: text: to seek injunctions from possible protests

question: Jealous and Radford asserted that the legal action taken by Shell was what?
answers: text: "trampling American's rights."

question: Greenpeace claimed that Shell requested Google to ban what?
answers: text: video footage of a Greenpeace protest action that occurred at the Shell-sponsored Formula One (F1) Belgian Grand Prix

question: What banners appeared on the winners' podium at the August 2013 ceremony?
answers: text: "SaveTheArctic.org"

question: At the 2013 ceremony, activitsts controlled their appearance with what?
answers: text: the use of four radio car antennas

question: When did Shell ask google to ban video footage of the Greenpeace protests?

question: What is the Greenpeace logo?

question: Who filed the lawsuits against Shell?

question: Who did SaveTheArctic partner with for the Belgian Grand Prix?

question: How were the winners' podiums controlled?
context: In response, Shell filed lawsuits to seek injunctions from possible protests, and Benjamin Jealous of the NAACP and Radford argued that the legal action was "trampling American's rights." According to Greenpeace, Shell lodged a request with Google to ban video footage of a Greenpeace protest action that occurred at the Shell-sponsored Formula One (F1) Belgian Grand Prix on 25 August 2013, in which "SaveTheArctic.org" banners appear at the winners' podium ceremony. In the video, the banners rise up automatically—activists controlled their appearance with the use of four radio car antennas—revealing the website URL, alongside an image that consists of half of a polar bear's head and half of the Shell logo.