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
Anglo American Australia A C N 127 881 510 Pty Ltd
BP Sweden A Flygbranslehantenng AB (AFAB) 16.67
Rio Tinto plc Australia A O (Australia) Pty Limited 100.00
BP United Kingdom A P P Chemicals Ltd
Anglo American Luxembourg A R H Limited S A
Anglo American United Kingdom A Tulloch & Sons (Holdings) Limited
Rio Tinto plc United Kingdom A-L Financial Products Ltd 100.00
Anglo American Netherlands A. R H Services (Netherlands) BV
Anglo American British Virgin Islands A.R.H Investments Limited
Shell (Downstream) Denmark A/S Dansk Shell
Shell (Upstream International) Norway A/S Norske Shell 100.00
Shell (Downstream) Denmark A/S Pse 17 nr 1486
Shell (Downstream) Denmark A/S Shell Center
Anglo American Netherlands AA Holdings Argentina B.V.
Anglo American AAC Holdings (R) Llc/ooo
Anglo American AAC Holdings (R) Zao 100.00
Shell (Downstream) Sweden AB Shellgas 100.00
Shell (Downstream) Sweden AB Svenska Shell 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Abalyn Investment Holdings Limited
BP Austria ABG Autobahn-Betnebe GmbH 32.58
BP Germany ABS Auto Business Services GmbH 100.00
BP United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations 9.50
BP United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Gas Liquifaction Co Ltd 10.00
BP United Kingdom Abu Dhabi Manne Areas Ltd 33.33
BP United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Manne Operating Company 14.70
Exxon United Kingdom Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company Limited 23.75
Shell (Upstream International) United Kingdom Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company Limited 23.75
BP United Kingdom Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company Ltd 23.75
Barrick Gold Corporation United States ABX Finaneco
Barrick Gold Corporation Cayman Islands AC 40689 Ltd
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093