Shell is not a US company and besides, relying on another country’s laws keep yourself from being exploited isn’t going to get you very far.

Royal Dutch Shell is headquartered in the Netherlands and registered in the UK, and both countries are part of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention that criminalizes the bribery of foreign public officials.

Even if it were not, I struggle to understand the purpose of your comment.

Do you mean to say that it's morally justified for Shell to bribe Nigerian officials? Because it goes unpunished by governments? Or because the citizenry of Nigeria that do not benefit from such bribery are unable to punish such transgressions? Or is it just a nitpicky "gotcha" that adds nothing and isn't even correct?

Receiving bribes is too, right? The fault may be shared between corrupt countries and companies, but Nigeria is not blameless.

Both are to blame but there is a long history of the "blame free" variety of African leaders getting assassinated or "regime changed" by external forces if they don't cooperate.

I wonder how Norway would look if they were constantly under the same threat.

Good question. Why isn't Norway under the same threat?