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 Australia Cairns Airport Refuelling
BP South Africa Castrol Swaziland (Pty) Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Kenya Shell Malindi Limited
BP United Kingdom Dussek Campbell Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Brazil Icoclub-Industria de Lubrificantes S A
BP United States Pan American Energy LLC
Anglo American South Africa Ambase Investment Africa (Botswana) (Pty) Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation United States Homestake Mining Company of California
BP United Kingdom BP Exploration (Nigeria Finance) Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Shell Gas (LPG) Hong Kong Limited
BP United States ARCO Polypropelene Company
BP United States BP Wind Energy North America Inc
BP United States ARCO Mexico Projects Inc
Shell (Downstream) Australia Derfell Pty Ltd
BP Netherlands Amoco Chemical Malaysia Holding Company I B V
BP United Kingdom BP Shipping Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Shell Hong Kong Limited
BP United Kingdom Castrol Overseas Nominees Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Belgium New Market Belgium
BP United States Gardena Holdings Inc
Shell (Downstream) Ireland Shell-Mex (Dublin) Limited
BP United States Georgetown Holding Company
BP United States Sanilac County Wind Farm LLC
BP United States White Pines Wind Farm LLC
BP United Kingdom BP Amoco Exploration (Faroes) Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Barbados Barrick Holdings (Barbados) Corp.
Anglo American Netherlands AA Holdings Argentina B.V.
BP United Kingdom Melrose Oil Trading Company Ltd
BP Australia North West Shelf Australia LNG Pty
Barrick Gold Corporation Barbados Dominicana Holdings Inc
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093