Piping Profits

Piping Profits

PWYP Norway can reveal that ten of the world’s most powerful oil, gas and mining companies own 6,038 subsidiaries and over a third of them are based in secrecy jurisdictions. The three Norwegian companies mapped own 55 subsidiaries, 20% of which are based in secrecy jurisdictions. On these pages you will find more information about this project, the detrimental effects of secrecy jurisdictions and how these can be tackled. The database is publicly available and can be explored here.

Due to lack of resources, it will not be continually updated, but nevertheless represents an excellent snapshot of extractive industries and their subsidiaries in 2011. The Piping Profits database includes information on the 13 case studies and their 6,093 subsidiaries, containing details of:

  • The Parent Company
  • The Subsidiary Name
  • The location in which the subsidiary is incorporated
  • The percentage of the subsidiary owned by the parent company

Below it is possible to search in the database by company, country and/or subsidiary, and using the buttons below the list of findings, it is possible to export the data to Excel.

Company Country Subsidiary Percent owned
Shell (Downstream) Australia Advantage Petroleum Pty Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Bolivia Pennzoil Bolivia S A
Shell (Downstream) Chile Shell Chile Sociedad Anonima Comercial E Industrial
Shell (Downstream) Germany SPNV Deutschland Beteiligungsges mbH
Shell (Downstream) Isle of Man Petrolon Europe Limited
Shell (Downstream) Mexico Shell Servicios Leon, S A de C V
Shell (Downstream) Netherlands Shell Chemicals Ventures B V 100.00
Shell (Downstream) Singapore Shell Chemicals Seraya PTE LTD 100.00
Shell (Downstream) United Kingdom Shell Thailand Manufacturing Limited 100.00
Shell (Downstream) United Kingdom Fox Petroleum Limited 100.00
Shell (Downstream) United States Pecten Trading Company 100.00
Shell (Downstream) Dominican Republic Propriedades Industriales PISA 99.99
Shell (Downstream) China Shell Road Solutions (Tianjin) Co Ltd 75.00
Shell (Downstream) Philippines Shell Freeport, Inc 67.12
Shell (Downstream) Taiwan CPC Shell Lubricants Co Ltd 51.00
Shell (Downstream) Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian Markets and Shell Lubricants Company Ltd 50.00
Shell (Downstream) Zimbabwe Condor Investments (Private) Limited 50.00
Shell (Downstream) China Tianjin International Petroleum Storage & Transportation Company Ltd 40.00
Shell (Downstream) Chile Sociedad de Inversiones de Aviacion Ltda 33.33
Shell (Downstream) France Societe Bearnaise des Gaz Liquefies 28.00
Shell (Downstream) Netherlands Maasvlakte Olie Terminal C V 22.20
Shell (Projects & Technology) Netherlands Shell Chemicals Services Asia B V
Shell (Projects & Technology) United States CRI Zeolites Inc
Shell (Downstream) Canada Pennzoil-Quaker State Canada Holding Ltd
Shell (Downstream) China Shell Road Solutions (Luzhou) Co Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Dominican Republic Shell Caribbean & Central America Ltd - Dom Rep Branch
Shell (Downstream) Kenya Shell Bitumen East Africa Limited
Shell (Downstream) Norway Shell Gas (LPG) Norge AS 100.00
Shell (Downstream) Sweden AB Shellgas 100.00
Shell (Downstream) United Kingdom The Shell Company of West Africa Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093