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 descending Percent owned
Conoco Phillips Holdings Co. Turkey Turcas Petrol Anonim Sirketi 27.64
Barrick Gold Corporation United States Turquoise Ridge Mine
Anglo American United Kingdom TWIM Recycling Limited 100.00
Anglo American United Kingdom TWM Recycling Centre Limited 100.00
BP United States TXC Green Power LLC
BP Switzerland UBAG Unterflurbetankungsanlage Flughafen Zunch 12.00
Shell (Downstream) Switzerland UBAG Unterflurbetankungsanlage Flughafen, Zurich 20.00
BP United Kingdom UKCS Carbon Management Company Ltd
BHP Australia UMAL Consolidated Pty Ltd 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Umbani Mining Ltd 100.00
Anglo American Guernsey UMD Guernsey Limited 100.00
Shell (Downstream) Malaysia UMW Pennzoil Distributors SDN BHD 50.00
Shell (Downstream) South Africa Unico Manufacturing Co (P E) Proprietary Ltd 75.00
Shell (Downstream) Kenya Unico Manufacturing Co Ltd
BP United States Unimar LLC
Rio Tinto plc Morocco Union Generale Industrielle Africaine 99.93
Chevron United States Union Oil Company of California 100.00
BP United States Union Texas (Argentina) Ltd
BP Bahamas Union Texas (Transnational) Ltd
BP United States Union Texas Adriatic Inc
BP Bahamas Union Texas Azerbaijan Ltd
BP Bahamas Union Texas do Brasil Ltd
BP United Kingdom Union Texas Energy Development Ltd
BP United States Union Texas Hellas Inc
BP United States Union Texas International Corporation
BP Bahamas Union Texas Kazakhstan Ltd
BP Bahamas Union Texas Kazakhstan Offshore Ltd
BP United Kingdom Union Texas Petroleum 100.00
BP Germany Union-Tank Eckstein GmbH 100.00
BP Germany Union-Tank Eckstein GmbH & Co KG 34.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093