Stakeholder Dialogue - Our Commitment

Our commitment to stakeholder engagement process

To work directly with stakeholders to inform the decommissioning programme submitted to Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) by:

• Communicating the various issues and concerns raised by the decommissioning studies so that they are understood and considered by the stakeholders; and
• Gaining stakeholders’ feedback and views on decommissioning scenarios

• We will make every effort to engage with all relevant stakeholders
• We will work with stakeholders to understand their issues and concerns in order to provide input into technical assessments and studies
• Output from such engagements will be used in our decision making process
• We will produce a publicly available record of facilitated dialogue events
• We will provide feedback to stakeholders’ queries and issues
• We will seek feedback on the engagement process and share it with the stakeholders

We will engage with stakeholders and provide information via:

• Our website:
• Independently facilitated dialogue events
• Meetings on a one to one basis, as required and appropriate
• Other means as appropriate, constructive and practical

Our stakeholder engagement process will:

• Provide important input for our decision making process
• Complement but not replace the statutory approvals process or Shell and Esso's own approvals process
• Make available to all stakeholders all information and data that can be reasonably provided
• Treat all stakeholders equally
• Be undertaken in accordance with Shell’s General Business Principles
• Read more about who we are consulting with