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) United Kingdom LEVELSEAS HOLDINGS LIMITED 33.33
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Abu Dhabi B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Offshore Services B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Nigeria Shell Nigeria Exploration Properties Alpha Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) United Kingdom Enterprise Oil Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Germany Beb Speicher GmbH 50.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Gasterra BV 25.00
Shell (Corporate) Bermuda Shell Bermuda (Overseas) Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Bahamas Shell E&P Ireland Offshore Inc 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Germany Shell Exploration New Ventures Two Gmbh 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Nigeria Shell Nigeria Upstream Ventures Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United Kingdom Selap Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Netherlands Resco B V 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United States Shell Communications INC 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell West Qurna B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Kirthar Pakistan B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) New Zealand Shell Energy Asia Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Limited Liability Company \"Shell NefteGaz Development (IV)\" 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Bermuda Gas Investments & Services Company Ltd 85.00
Shell (Upstream International) New Zealand Shell Todd Oil Services Limited 50.00
Shell (Upstream International) Al Furat Petroleum Company 20.31
Shell (Upstream International) Bermuda Shell Offshore Central Gabon Ltd 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Germany Shell Exploration ET Production du Maroc GMBH 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Italy Shell Italia E&P SpA 100.00
Shell (Corporate) United Kingdom Shell Holdings (U K) Limited 100.00
Shell (Corporate) Sudan Shell Trust (Sudan) Limited 98.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Exploration and Production Ukraine Investments (IV) B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Netherlands Shell Development and Offshore Pakistan 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) New Zealand Southern Petroleum No Liability 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) United Kingdom Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093