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 Sort ascending Percent owned
Conoco Phillips Holdings Co. United Kingdom Warwickshire Oil Storage Limited 33.33
BP United States Warrenville Development Ltd Partnership 99.54
Rio Tinto plc Australia Warkworth Tailing Treatment Pty Ltd 41.72
Rio Tinto plc Australia Warkworth Pastoral Co Pty Ltd 41.72
Rio Tinto plc Australia Warkworth Mining Limited 41.72
Rio Tinto plc Australia Warkworth Joint Venture 41.78
Rio Tinto plc Australia Warkworth Coal Sales Ltd 41.72
Shell (Downstream) United Kingdom Walton-Gatwick Pipeline Company Limited 51.67
BP United Kingdom Walton Gatwick Pipeline Company Ltd 42.33
Shell (Downstream) United Kingdom Walter Alexander Industries Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Canada Waite Lake Mines Inc 52.51
Conoco Phillips Holdings Co. Waha Oil Co. of Libya, Inc. 16.60
Anglo American United Kingdom Waddington Fell Quarries Limited 100.00
Anglo American United Kingdom Waddington Fell Quarries (Holdings) Limited 100.00
Conoco Phillips Holdings Co. Canada Wabiskaw Explorations Ltd. 100.00
Shell (Downstream) Netherlands Waalbrug Exploitatie Maatschappij B V 100.00
Anglo American United Kingdom W J Hall & Sons (Gorleston) Limited 100.00
Shell (Downstream) Australia W A G Pipeline Proprietary Limited 52.30
BP Germany VTA Verfahrenstechnik und Automatisierung GmbH 100.00
BP Netherlands Vostok-Schmidt Neftagaz Holdings B V 49.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Vostin Pty Ltd 100.00
Glencore International AG Peru Volcan Compania Minera S.A.A. 4.10
BP United Kingdom Vivergo Fuels Ltd 45.00
Shell (Downstream) Denmark VITFOS Services I/S 50.00
BP United States Virginia Services Ltd LLC
BP United States Virginia International Co LLC
BP United States Virginia Indonesia Co LLC
BP United Kingdom Virginia Indonesia Co CBM Ltd 50.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Vinfarmer Pty Ltd 100.00
BP Brazil Vigesimus Administracao E 15.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093