, following last week’s court ruling halting the oil giant from conducting further exploration in its controversial 3D seismic survey for oil and gas fields along the sensitive Wild Coast.
The Amazon Warrior, which is owned by Shearwater GeoServices, left the Cape Town harbour earlier this week and is now en route to the port of Las Palmas, Spain, according to the“I can confirm that as legal hearings about the survey are not yet completed and the weather window for conducting the work is limited, Shell has decided to terminate the current contract for the survey vessel early, in agreement with the contractor,” said Shell South Africa spokesperson Pam Ntaka.
“We are looking ahead to a resolution of the outstanding legal case and are considering the best way forward for the licence in the longer term.”it had won the major seismic exploration project to acquire more than 6 000 square kilometres of 3D seismic data from December 2021 until April this year. The vessel’s arrival in November sparked protests.
In December, small-scale fishers from the Amadiba, Cwebe, Hobeni, Port St Johns and Kei Mouth areas, together with Sustaining the Wild Coast andJointly represented by the