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 (Upstream International) Egypt Tiba Petroleum Company 26.00
Shell (Corporate) Australia Austen and Butta Pty Ltd 100.00
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
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Exploration and Production Services (RF) B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) New Zealand Energy Petroleum Holdings Ltd 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Qatar Qatar Shell Research & Technology Centre QSTP-LLC 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) United States Arman Oil Company 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Noordzeewind B V 50.00
Shell (Upstream International) Australia North West Shelf Shipping Service Co Pty Ltd 22.38
Shell (Upstream International) Bermuda Qatar Shell GTL Ltd 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Germany Shell Verwaltungsgesellschaft fur Erdgasbeteiligungen MBH 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Netherlands Shell Brazil Holding B V 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United Kingdom Shell Planaxis Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Canada Shell Canada Services Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United States Shell Expatriate Employment US INC 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Okling Holdings B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Gas & Power Developments B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) New Zealand Energy Infrastructure Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Ukraine Shell Ukraine Exploration and Production 4 LLC 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Gabon Shell Gabon 75.00
Shell (Upstream International) Australia Woodside Petroleum Ltd 34.27
Shell (Upstream International) Australia Shell Energy Investments Australia PTY L 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United Kingdom Angkor Shell Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Luxembourg Shell Treasury Luxembourg SARL 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Netherlands Qatar Shell Upstream International B V 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093