● THE INFLATION RORT: Four rises in 2026   ♦ GAS REVENUE FOREGONE: A$537 A SECOND SINCE 1 JULY 2022   ♦ THE REPORTING RORT: The fifth system   ♦ THE SURCHARGE RORT: The cost the Tax Office won’t wear   ♦ THE AIRLINE RORT: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 8 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ THE CARTEL SWITCH: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 1 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ THE COMPLIANCE MACHINE: ONGOING · UNRESOLVED · 1 INVESTIGATIONS   ♦ 105 ENTITIES TRACKED · 100 INVESTIGATIONS · 0 STRUCTURAL BREAK-UPS   ♦ THE SURCHARGE RORT: A line off the receipt   ♦ THE INFLATION RORT: The grill

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Shell

Where Shell sits in the flow of extraction.

SHELL · ESTIMATED FLOW OFFSHORE
≈A$2.6bn/yr
to UK · Netherlands · Queensland CSG: near-zero resource tax on billions in income
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THE RORT · DOSSIER · SHELLDOSSIER OPEN · TRACKING
ENTITY / ACTORCOMPANY · GASSTATUS · ExposedACROSS · 4 TOPICS

QGC and Prelude operator; took roughly 43% of east-coast coal seam gas reserves through mergers the ACCC approved, on a near-zero resource tax record.

Estimated flow offshore, each year
≈A$2.6bn/yr
Flowing to UK · Netherlands. Queensland CSG: near-zero resource tax on billions in income.
Resource tax paid · PRRT · 2023-24
A$0
It pays income tax on its gas earnings, but no petroleum resource rent tax at all. ATO Corporate Tax Transparency 2023-24.
Income tax A$988m · total income A$13.3bn (2023-24)
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Investigations citing it
4
Topics it recurs across
27
Linked in the graph
7
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Australia's Gas Heist77 investigations →The Inflation Rort11 investigation →ShellharbourAustralia's largestThe Waterfront, Shell Cove is billed as Australia's largest local-government and developer joint venture, between Shellharbour City Council and Fra…1 investigation →The War Trade11 investigation →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

02 / Connected in the graph

Actors in its orbit
SantosCOMPANY · GAS · 7INPEXCOMPANY · GAS · 7ChevronCOMPANY · GAS · 6WoodsideCOMPANY · GAS · 6Anthony AlbanesePERSON · POLITICIAN · 4The ACCCFEDERAL REGULATOR · 3The ATOACTOR · AGENCY · 3Jim ChalmersPERSON · TREASURER · 3One NationPOLITICAL PARTY · 3PM&CACTOR · DEPARTMENT · 2The RBAFEDERAL REGULATOR · 1NOPSEMAFEDERAL REGULATOR · 1Donald TrumpPERSON · US PRESIDENT · 1Gina RinehartPERSON · EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF HANCOCK PROSPECTING · 1Hancock ProspectingCOMPANY · 1Trump MediaCOMPANY · TRUMP MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY GROUP · 1Barnaby JoycePERSON · ONE NATION MP FOR NEW ENGLAND · 1News CorpCOMPANY · MEDIA · 1NineCOMPANY · MEDIA · 1Seven West MediaCOMPANY · MEDIA · 1Kerry StokesPERSON · MAGNATE · 1Shellharbour City CouncilLOCAL COUNCIL · 1
Mechanisms in play
The PRRTMECHANISM · TAX · 9The Revolving DoorMECHANISM · 4Offshore DecommissioningMECHANISM · LIABILITY · 3Regulatory CaptureMECHANISM · 1The Democratic BypassMECHANISM · 1

Nobody wrote this page. It assembled itself from every investigation that names Shell, and it deepens automatically each time The Rort publishes another. The more the archive grows, the sharper this dossier gets, and the lobbyist, the donation and the revolving-door minister who recur across all of it become impossible to miss.

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