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 Oman BP Global Investments Salaha & Co LLC
Barrick Gold Corporation Argentina Veladero Mine
Barrick Gold Corporation Chile Inversiones Barrick Conosur Limitada
Shell (Downstream) Germany Euroshell Deutschland Gmbh
BP Canada Sultran Ltd
BP United Kingdom BP Amoco Exploration (MSA) Ltd (in liquidation)
Shell (Projects & Technology) United States Shell Catalysts Ventures Inc
BP United States Destin Pipeline Company L L C
Shell (Downstream) Malaysia Shell Gas (LPG) Malaysia West SDN BHD
BP South Africa Castrol South Africa (Pty) Ltd
BP United Kingdom Duckhams Oils Ltd
BP Malta BP Malta Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Canada 6040187 Canada Inc
BP Bolivia Pacific LNG Bolivia SRL
Anglo American South Africa Amber Falcon Properties 157 (Pty) Ltd
BP United Kingdom Kemwell Ltd (in liquidation)
Barrick Gold Corporation United States Donlin Creek LLC
Shell (Downstream) Chile Distribuidora Y Comercializadora de Accesorios Y Combustibles Norte LTDA
BP United States Castrol Industrial North America Inc
Anglo American Luxembourg Ammin Coal Holdings S ar l
BP United States Amoco Louisiana Fractionator Company
Barrick Gold Corporation Kabanga Nickel Company Limited
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia Barrick (Darlot) NL
Shell (Downstream) France Butagaz SAS
BP United States BP Gas Supply (Angola) LLC
BP Lebanon Lebanese Aviation Technical Services SAL
BP United States Virginia International Co LLC
Shell (Projects & Technology) China Yueyang Sinopec and Shell Coal Gasification Company Limited
BP Bahamas ARCO Wittenberg Investments Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Italy Aico Uno S r l
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093