The Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria…stated that it had appealed against the judgment of a Federal High Court in Asaba, which ordered it to pay N15.4bn damages to Ejama Ebubu Community in Rivers State over oil spill in the area…[Shell] had in a statement…alleged that the spill in question occurred during the Nigerian civil war, when advancing troops set up the leak. It said, “We were not operating in the area at the time because of the civil war. SPDC JV will continue to operate in an environmentally friendly manner.”