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 ascending Percent owned
BP Egypt United Gas Denvatives Company UGDC 33.33
Glencore International AG Jersey United Company Rusal plc 8.80
Shell (Downstream) Thailand Unitas Company Limited 41.37
BP Germany Union-Tank Eckstein GmbH & Co KG 34.00
BP Germany Union-Tank Eckstein GmbH 100.00
BP United Kingdom Union Texas Petroleum 100.00
BP Bahamas Union Texas Kazakhstan Offshore Ltd
BP Bahamas Union Texas Kazakhstan Ltd
BP United States Union Texas International Corporation
BP United States Union Texas Hellas Inc
BP United Kingdom Union Texas Energy Development Ltd
BP Bahamas Union Texas do Brasil Ltd
BP Bahamas Union Texas Azerbaijan Ltd
BP United States Union Texas Adriatic Inc
BP Bahamas Union Texas (Transnational) Ltd
BP United States Union Texas (Argentina) Ltd
Chevron United States Union Oil Company of California 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Morocco Union Generale Industrielle Africaine 99.93
BP United States Unimar LLC
Shell (Downstream) Kenya Unico Manufacturing Co Ltd
Shell (Downstream) South Africa Unico Manufacturing Co (P E) Proprietary Ltd 75.00
Shell (Downstream) Malaysia UMW Pennzoil Distributors SDN BHD 50.00
Anglo American Guernsey UMD Guernsey Limited 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Umbani Mining Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia UMAL Consolidated Pty Ltd 100.00
BP United Kingdom UKCS Carbon Management Company Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Switzerland UBAG Unterflurbetankungsanlage Flughafen, Zurich 20.00
BP Switzerland UBAG Unterflurbetankungsanlage Flughafen Zunch 12.00
BP United States TXC Green Power LLC
Anglo American United Kingdom TWM Recycling Centre Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093