---
title: "Vela Oil and Gas Limited — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f759e78d-597d-5bdd-95d0-09cfab5d74e5
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/f759e78d-597d-5bdd-95d0-09cfab5d74e5
identifier: icij:icijol-10153788
jurisdiction: SG
risk: Medium
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# Vela Oil and Gas Limited

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [SG](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/sg)  
**Identifier:** `icij:icijol-10153788`  
**Risk level:** Medium  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f759e78d-597d-5bdd-95d0-09cfab5d74e5  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/f759e78d-597d-5bdd-95d0-09cfab5d74e5  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **Howard James Smith** (shareholder of) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/70c2e26c-529c-5e6d-9024-7f29c6511558
- **CHRISTOPHER DAVID ATKINSON** (shareholder of) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/a4371563-97aa-5232-a559-a5a36f41f240

### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner)

A **3-step** ownership/control chain to the ultimate beneficial owner is resolved for this entity. The full cited chain unlocks with a paid API key or a one-off dossier — https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

## Provenance

- ICIJ Offshore Leaks — https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/10153788

## Get the full, resolved dossier (agent-callable)

The above is the free teaser. The resolved **multi-hop UBO chain**, ownership **%**, full **financial history**, itemised **assets** and the hop-by-hop **exposure path** are the paid depth — callable as tools from your agent:

```bash
npx -y @whiteintel/mcp-server   # then: get_dossier · trace_ownership_path · check_offshore_exposure
```

Or unlock a one-off cited dossier for **Vela Oil and Gas Limited** — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f759e78d-597d-5bdd-95d0-09cfab5d74e5 · pricing https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **Vela Oil and Gas Limited**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f759e78d-597d-5bdd-95d0-09cfab5d74e5 · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/f759e78d-597d-5bdd-95d0-09cfab5d74e5._

_Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._