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