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 Sort descending
BP Taiwan China American Petrochemical Company Ltd (CAPCO)
Shell (Downstream) Ireland Irish Shell Trust Limited
BP Portugal BP Gest 24 Exploracao de Postos de Abastecimento
Barrick Gold Corporation Kabanga Nickel Company Limited
Barrick Gold Corporation Bermuda Argentina Gold (Bermuda) II Ltd.
BP United Kingdom BP Oil International Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Canada Shell Hydrogen Investments Canada Inc
Shell (Downstream) Ecuador Shell Compania de Petroleo del Ecuador S A
Anglo American British Virgin Islands Ambase Exploration (Tanzania) Limited
Shell (Projects & Technology) Canada Cansolv Technologies Inc
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia Barrick Mining Company (Australia) Limited
BP United Kingdom Handygas Ltd
BP United States Terrapin Creek Wind Energy LLC
Anglo American South Africa Amber Falcon Properties 160 (Pty) Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia KCGM Superpit
Shell (Downstream) Germany Shell Chemie Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbh
BP Bahamas Union Texas Kazakhstan Offshore Ltd
BP Denmark Nordic Lubricants A/S
BP United States Conti Cross Keys Inn Inc
Shell (Projects & Technology) Netherlands CRI Technology Services B V
Shell (Projects & Technology) Cayman Islands Bully 2 Ltd
BP Chile Compania de Inversiones El Condor Limitada
Shell (Downstream) Mexico Terrenos Mundiales, S A de C V
Shell (Downstream) Brazil Shell Brasil LTDA
BP United Kingdom Britannic Strategies Ltd
BP United States South Houston Green Power LP
Anglo American Netherlands A. R H Services (Netherlands) BV
Anglo American Australia Anglo American Australia Limited
Barrick Gold Corporation Canada Hemlo Property
Shell (Downstream) France Distrinord Gaz
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093