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
BP United States Utah Oil Refining Company
BP Spain Utrera Fotovoltaica S L U 100.00
Anglo American United Kingdom Val deTravers Asphalte Limited 100.00
Shell (Downstream) United States Valley Pines Associates 50.00
Conoco Phillips Holdings Co. United States Vanguard Energy Investors L.P. 10.00
Glencore International AG Kazakhstan Vasilkovskoje Gold 100.00
BP United States Vastar Energy Inc
BP United States Vastar Gas Marketing Inc
BP United States Vastar Holdings Inc
BP United States Vastar Pipeline LLC
BP United States Vastar Power Marketing Inc
Rio Tinto plc France Vaw International Capsules S A S 100.00
BP Germany Veba Oil & Gas Cerro Negro GmbH 100.00
BP Colombia Veedol International Columbia
BP United Kingdom Veedol International Ltd
Shell (Downstream) South Africa Veetech Oil (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
Barrick Gold Corporation Argentina Veladero Mine
BHP Netherlands Venezuela Aluminium Holding B V 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Bahamas Venezuelan Eagle Oil Company Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Norway Vennesia Vekst A/S 1.50
Shell (Downstream) United States Ventex LLC 100.00
Conoco Phillips Holdings Co. United States Venture Coke Company 50.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Venture Fuels Partnership 46.86
Anglo American South Africa Vergelegen Wine Estate (Pty) Ltd 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Vergelegen Wines (Pty) Ltd 100.00
BP Australia Veruba Pty Ltd (in liquidation) 100.00
Anglo American United Kingdom Viaduct Portfolio Management Limited 100.00
BP United Kingdom VIC CBM Ltd 50.00
BP United Kingdom Viceroy Investments Ltd
Anglo American United Kingdom Vicourt Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093