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) Bermuda Solen Insurance Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell EP Holdings (EE&ME) 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Netherlands Shell Overseas Investments B V 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United States Shell Petroleum INC 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell EP Russia Investments (II) B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Development Iran B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) New Zealand Energy Petroleum Taranaki Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Limited Liability Company \"Shell NefteGaz Development (II)\" 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Nigeria Shell Thrift & Loan Fund Trustees Nig Ltd 99.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands NC Production Operations Company B V 50.00
Shell (Upstream International) Australia North West Shelf Gas Pty Ltd 22.38
Shell (Upstream International) Bermuda Shell EP International Ltd 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Denmark Shell Kanumas A/S 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Shell Pacific Enterprises Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) New Zealand Shell New Zealand Pensions Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United Kingdom The Shell Transport and Trading Company Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Cayman Islands Shell Upstream Gabon Cayman Holdings No 1 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Brazil Houches Holdings S A 99.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Exploration and Production Ukraine Investments (I) B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Gas Developments (V) B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) New Zealand Petroleum Industries Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) United Kingdom Shell Saudi Ventures Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) India Hazira Port Private Limited 74.00
Shell (Upstream International) Japan Sakhalin LNG Services Company Ltd 33.33
Shell (Upstream International) Australia Shell Development (PSC19) Pty Ltd 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Bermuda Shell Petroleum (Malaysia) Ltd 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United Kingdom Shell Foundation 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Luxembourg Shell Finance Luxembourg SARL 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Malaysia Sarawak Shell Berhad 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Netherlands Shell RDS Holding B V 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093