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 United Kingdom Major and Company Ltd
BP China North West Shelf Australia LNG Co
Shell (Downstream) Botswana Shell Oil Botswana (PTY) Ltd
BP United States South Houston Green Power LLC
BP United Kingdom BP Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia Barrick (Plutonic) Limited
Shell (Downstream) Guam Shell Guam Inc
BP United Kingdom BXL Plastics Ltd
BP United Kingdom BP Exploration (Vietnam) Ltd
BP United States Vastar Power Marketing Inc
BP United Kingdom Yasdan Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Barbados Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation
BP United Kingdom BP Oil Vietnam Ltd
BP Egypt Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company GUPCO
BP United Kingdom BP Exploration Company Ltd
BP United Kingdom Central North Sea Fibre Telecommunications Company Ltd
BP United States Amoco Remediation Management Services Corporation
BP United Kingdom BP Sutton Ltd
BP Canada LAO Chemicals Holding Company
BP Bahamas ARCO Integrated Power (Zhuhai) Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Chile Pascua-Lama Project
Shell (Downstream) Indonesia PT Shell Indonesia
Shell (Downstream) Australia Shell Autoserv South Pty Ltd
BP United Kingdom BP Trading Ltd
BP United States Foseco Properties Inc
Anglo American Luxembourg A R H Limited S A
Shell (Downstream) Belgium Rain-X Europe, NV
BP United States Amoco High Island Pipeline Company
Anglo American United Kingdom Anglo American Australia Investments Limited (formerly Charles II Properties Limited)
Shell (Downstream) China Shell Road Solutions (Inner Mongolia) Co, Ltd
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093