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
Anglo American Australia Anglo Coal (Dartbrook Management) Pty Ltd
BP United Kingdom BP Power Trading Ltd
Shell (Projects & Technology) Netherlands Shell Manufacturing Services B V
BP United States Fowler Ridge Wind Farm LLC
BP United Kingdom Lilac Properties Ltd
BP United Kingdom Castrol Overseas Investments Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Guam Shell Guam Inc
BP United States Conti Cross Keys Inn Inc
BP United States Vastar Power Marketing Inc
Barrick Gold Corporation Chile Compania Minera Nevada Spa.
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia Darlot Mine
Shell (Downstream) Canada Shell Chemicals Canada Ltd
BP United Kingdom BP Columbia Pipelines Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Costa Rica Shell Costa Rica S A
BP United States Long Island Solar Farm LLC
Shell (Downstream) Mexico Shell Mexico, S A de C V
Anglo American Namibia African Wire Ropes (Proprietary) Limited
Anglo American British Virgin Islands Anglo American Corporation De Chile Holdings Limited
BP United Kingdom Stellana Property Company Ltd
BP United Kingdom BP Oil Llandarcy Refinery Ltd
BP United Kingdom BP Japan Trading Ltd
Shell (Projects & Technology) United States Shell Catalysts Ventures Inc
BP South Africa Castrol South Africa (Pty) Ltd
BP United Kingdom Duckhams Oils Ltd
Shell (Downstream) France Shell Retraites SAS
BP United States BP Southern Cone Company
BP United Kingdom UKCS Carbon Management Company Ltd
BP United Kingdom Scottish Oils Ltd
BP United Kingdom Ropemaker Deansgate Ltd
BP United States Galaxy Biofuels LLC
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093