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 (Corporate) Netherlands Shell Internet Ventures B V 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United Kingdom Meteor Lead Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Canada Scotford Chemicals Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United States Shell Services Company 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Gas Holding (ME) B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Generating (Holding) B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) New Zealand Energy Capital Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Ukraine Shell Ukraine Exploration and Production 1 LLC 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) United States Pecten Cameroon Company LLC 80.00
Shell (Upstream International) Egypt West Sitra Petroleum Company 37.50
Shell (Upstream International) Australia Shell Energy Holdings Australia Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Bermuda Shell Mexico Exploration and Production Investment Ltd 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Germany Shell Algeria Reggane GMBH 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Switzerland Shell Finance Switzerland AG 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United Kingdom STT (Das Beneficiary) Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Netherlands Shell Project Development (VIII) BV 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United Kingdom Shell Finance (UK) PLC 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Zimbabwe NORMAN PROPERTIES (PRIVATE) LIMITED 50.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell International Exploration and Production B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell EP Middle East Holdings B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Nigeria Shell Nigeria Exploration Properties Charlie Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) United Kingdom Shell Clair UK Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Bermuda South Rub Al-Khali Company Ltd 50.00
Shell (Upstream International) Egypt Tiba Petroleum Company 26.00
Shell (Upstream International) Germany Shell Egypt NW Demiatta Gmbh 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Nigeria Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Delta Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United Kingdom International Inland Waterways, Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Jordan Oil Shale Company 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Netherlands Shell Research B V 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United Kingdom Shell Energy Investments Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093