Navitas Petroleum Limited
Navitas Petroleum Limited is a company on the UK Companies House register with address or ownership links to Israel. This profile is part of UK companies linked to 'Israel'; see UK companies linked to 'Israel': Methodology for how companies were selected and scored.
Profile
| Navitas Petroleum Limited | |
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| Type | Private limited Company |
| Founded | 21 Feb 2013 |
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| Headquarters | 54 Portland Place, London, W1B 1DY, England |
| Industry | 06100 - Extraction of crude petroleum, 06200 - Extraction of natural gas |
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| Parent | Clal Insurance Company Ltd |
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- Category: P / O / T (Israeli corporate PSC / parent company; officer(s) with an Israeli correspondence address; documented activity in the occupied territories (entity or parent group)); connection score 5
- Company number: 08412666[1]
- Status: Active
- Type: Private limited Company
- Incorporated / registered: 21 Feb 2013
- SIC: 06100 - Extraction of crude petroleum, 06200 - Extraction of natural gas
- Registered office: 54 Portland Place, London, W1B 1DY, England
- Listing / market cap: Not listed. Parent Navitas Petroleum LP (TASE: NVPT) ≈ US$4.76bn.[2] Clal Insurance's listed parent: market cap not verified.
Israel connection:
- CH PSCs: Navitas Petroleum Limited Partnership (Herzliya, Israel), significant influence or control; Clal Insurance Company Ltd (Tel Aviv, Israel), 25–50%, notified 8 Sep 2026. Two of three current directors, including Navitas founder Gideon Tadmor Cohen, have Israeli correspondence addresses (CH).
Persons with significant control (CH):[1]
- Clal Insurance Company Ltd (active) — address: Raul Wallenburg Street, Tel Aviv, Israel; legal form Limited Company; governing law Companies Law Israel; registered at Registrar Of Companies; registration number 520024647; country registered Israel; notified 8 Sep 2026; nature of control: ownership of shares – 25% to 50%
- Navitas Petroleum Limited Partnership (active) — address: Abba Eban Blvd., Herzliya, Israel; legal form Limited Partnership; governing law Partnership Ordinance - 1975; registered at Registrar Of Companies And Partnerships; registration number 550263107; country registered Israel; notified 6 Apr 2016; nature of control: significant influence or control
Directors (CH; 11 director appointments, 3 current; † = Israel correspondence address, 4 appointments):[1]
| Name | Born (month/year) | Service | † |
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| Amit Kornhauser | March 1976 | Jan 2022–present | † |
| Jonathan Sternberg | June 1988 | Apr 2022–present | |
| Gideon Abraham Tadmor Cohen | January 1963 | Feb 2013–present | † |
| Benjamin Cuby | May 1975 | Nov 2014–Apr 2022 | |
| David Dennis Cuby | May 1948 | Feb 2013–Nov 2014 | |
| Bianca Carmen Daniell | July 1978 | Sep 2020–Apr 2022 | |
| Amit Kornhauser | March 1976 | Feb 2013–Oct 2015 | † |
| Adrian Gerard John Olivero | May 1967 | Mar 2013–Sep 2020 | |
| Chanan Reichman | March 1977 | Nov 2015–Jan 2022 | † |
| Jochanan Wolf | October 1975 | Apr 2022–Feb 2023 | |
| Finsbury Corporate Services Limited (corporate director) | – | Feb 2013–Jun 2013 |
Current secretary: Broughton Secretaries Limited[1]
Latest accounts (income/expenditure): Full accounts for FY to 31 Dec 2024 (filed 4 Apr 2026; scanned, read by OCR; figures in US$'000): general and administrative expenses (86); financial expenses (1,643); financial income 496; net loss US$(1,233)k (2023: US$(1,771)k).[3]
Arms trade involvement: None documented. The company's stated business is not in the arms trade.
Supply to the IDF / Israel MOD / Israeli security services: Shareholder (Clal): Who Profits says Clal helped finance the IDF's "Kiryat HaTikshuv" ICT campus in the Naqab (2022) and owns the building of the Israel Police Yarkon Region headquarters.[4] Nothing is documented for Navitas.
Activities in the occupied territories: Shareholder (Clal): Who Profits says Clal lent to the settlement construction company Bar-Amana (owned by the settler movement Amana) for projects in Karnei Shomron, Efrat and Kiryat Arba, and to other builders in Ariel, Beit Aryeh and Beitar Illit; it also holds stakes in companies active in settlements.[4] No OPT activity by Navitas is documented.
Links to the Israeli government: None documented in the sources reviewed.
WZO / JNF / Jewish Agency / Keren Hayesod: None found in the sources reviewed.
Controversies (protests, legal cases, export-licence rulings):
- Parent group: Argentina's Foreign Ministry rejected the Navitas–Rockhopper final investment decision on the Sea Lion field off the Falklands (Malvinas) as "unilateral and unlawful", threatened legal action, and said Navitas had been sanctioned in 2022 for operating without Argentine authorisation.[5]
- Shareholder (Clal) listed in the Who Profits database.[4]
See also
- UK companies linked to 'Israel'
- UK Companies with Address or Ownership Links to Israel - Alphabetical
- UK Companies with Address or Ownership Links to Israel - Ranked by density of connection
- UK Companies with documented links to business activity in the Occupied Palestinian territories and the occupied Golan
- UK defence, security, surveillance and dual-use technology companies with documented business ties to 'Israel'
- UK companies linked to 'Israel': Methodology
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Companies House, Navitas Petroleum Limited (08412666): company overview Find and update company information (GOV.UK).
- ↑ Companies House, Navitas Petroleum Limited (08412666): filing history Find and update company information (GOV.UK).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Who Profits Research Center, Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Who Profits, information valid to 2 June 2026.