Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil fuels Governments Greenwashing Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade Transition minerals By country All Afghanistan Angola Azerbaijan Brazil Cambodia Central African Republic China Congo-Brazzaville D.R. Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe Press release | April 25, 2019 Oil, Gas & Mining Nigeria New analysis shows Shell and Eni used Nigeria’s share of oil to fund alleged billion dollar bribery scheme Press release: Shell and Eni used Nigeria's share of oil to fund alleged bribery scheme Press release | April 23, 2019 Oil, Gas & Mining Entire $4.9 trillion investment in new oil and gas is incompatible with global climate goals All of the $4.9 trillion the oil and gas industry is forecast to spend on exploration and extraction from new fields over the next decade is incompatible with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal, according to new analysis. Press release | April 2, 2019 Oil, Gas & Mining Climate breakdown Vice-Presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno linked to payments of millions of dollars shifted out of Indonesian company into an obscure offshore firm New report links Sandiaga Uno to payments of at least US$43million from a major Indonesian coal company, Berau Coal, into an obscure offshore firm in the Seychelles. Press release | March 26, 2019 Oil, Gas & Mining Nominee to lead Interior Department may have misled Congress about previous lobbying activities President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Interior, David Bernhardt, may have misled Congress when saying he was not involved in lobbying activities on behalf of an oligarch’s company. Press release | Feb. 15, 2019 Oil, Gas & Mining Congo-Brazzaville London-listed oil company SOCO dumps Republic of Congo asset under highly questionable circumstances London Stock Exchange-listed SOCO International disposed of one of its last Sub-Saharan Africa assets, a Republic of Congo oil block, in a deal that breaches Congolese law and appears to make no commercial sense, a new Global Witness investigation reveals. Press release | Feb. 1, 2019 Oil, Gas & Mining D.R. Congo Oil rights in Salonga National Park could be null and void, Global Witness analysis reveals An opaque Guernsey-owned company’s oil rights threatening a protected national park in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could be null and void, according to our legal analysis Press release | Jan. 16, 2019 Oil, Gas & Mining Corruption & Money Laundering Conflicts of interest plague U.S. Department of Interior as Trump appointee received up to $2.1 million in royalties from oil companies America’s top agency regulating oil and gas extraction risks being gutted by a Trump appointee who received up to $2.1 million from oil companies. Press release | Dec. 18, 2018 Oil, Gas & Mining Corruption & Money Laundering D.R. Congo Global Witness welcomes Canadian regulator ruling on Glencore-controlled company and executives The Glencore-controlled mining company Katanga Mining has today agreed to pay USD $22 million to settle allegations by Canadian regulators that it had failed to comply with disclosure requirements, including that it had not properly described risks of doing business with a controversial middleman in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Press release | Dec. 17, 2018 Oil, Gas & Mining Ruling on conviction of middlemen paid by Shell and Eni in OPL 245 deal - Global Witness response Today, Judge Giusy Barbara ruled on the conviction of two middlemen in the scandal-ridden OPL 245 oil field deal. Press release | Dec. 5, 2018 Oil, Gas & Mining Brazilian authorities investigate Glencore, Vitol and Trafigura of bribery in Carwash scandal - Global Witness response The world's three biggest commodities traders are investigated for bribery of Brazil's national oil company, in one of the biggest corruption scandals of all time. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10