Shell Petroleum Development Research Articles

EFFECT OF OUTSOURCING ON EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF SHELL PETROLEUM PRODUCING AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY

This study investigates the effect of outsourcing practice on employment relations in Multinational Corporations with special focus on Shell Petroleum Producing and Development Company (SPDC). The study also examined the importance of employment relations in organizational performance. Descriptive research methodology was adopted in this study. The questionnaire that was administered in the field survey was the abbreviated version of Hewitt’s Human Resource Outsourcing Survey Questionnaire. The research findings showed that: the management of SPDC engages in unfair labour practices in order to trivialize workers conditions of service; mere transferring human resource management to a third party does not necessarily improve labour-management relations; outsourcing affects workers’ performance in Nigeria; there is positive relationship between employment relations and organisational performance. Based on the research findings, it recommends that the management of SPDC must discontinue its unfair labour practices; should improve the working conditions of its contract staff and show more interest in their career development; should focus attention on fostering mutual employment relations by ensuring that all its human resource policies are not counter-productive especially its outsourcing policy.
 
 JEL: L20; L23; L53
 
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Women, Inclusiveness and Participatory Governance in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: A Focus on Shell’s Model of Community Development in the Region

This paper analyzed the influence of adaptive collaborative governance on women’s inclusion and participation in governance in the Niger Delta of Nigeria with focus on Shell Petroleum Development C...

Gathering and Processing Associated Gas in the Niger Delta

This article is a synopsis of paper OTC 11923, "Process Technologies and Considerations for Gathering Associated Gas: Experiences from the Niger Delta, West Africa," by O.T. Nwasike, SPE, C.N. Okwuokenye, and N.H. Nwagwu, Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria Ltd., originally presented at the 2000 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 1-4 May.

A New Hydrofluoric Acid System Improves Sandstone Matrix Acidizing

This article is a synopsis of paper SPE 56527, "New HF Acid System Improves Sandstone-Matrix-Acidizing Success Ratio by 400% Over Conventional Mud-Acid System in Niger Delta Basin," by Nicholas Kume, SPE, BJ Services Co. Nigeria; Robert Van Melsen, SPE, and Luckie Erhahon, SPE, Shell Petroleum Development Co. Nigeria; and Abiodun Afolabi, SPE, BJ Services Co. Nigeria, originally presented at the 1999 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Houston, 3-6 October.