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
Rio Tinto plc Australia Warkworth Tailing Treatment Pty Ltd 41.72
BP United States Warrenville Development Ltd Partnership 99.54
Conoco Phillips Holdings Co. United Kingdom Warwickshire Oil Storage Limited 33.33
Shell (Downstream) Germany Wasserbesch Verb Wesseling-Hersel 35.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Waste Solutions and Recycling LLC 100.00
BP United States Watson Cogeneration Company 51.00
BP United States Wattenberg Gas Processing Plant
BP United States Waunita Wind Energy LLC
Rio Tinto plc Ireland Waxed Cartons (Export) Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Ireland WCL Flexible Packaging Limited 100.00
BP Canada Welchem Canada Ltd
BP United States Welchem Inc
BP United States Welchem Trinidad Inc
Anglo American United Kingdom Welsh Aggregates Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Australia West Australian Natural Gas Pty Ltd 28.57
Chevron Australia West Australian Petroleum Pty Limited 100.00
BP United Kingdom West London Pipeline & Storage Ltd 30.50
Shell (Downstream) United Kingdom West London Pipeline and Storage Limited 37.50
Anglo American United Kingdom West Lothian Recycling Limited 100.00
BP Egypt West Morgan Petroleum Company 50.00
BP United States West Shore Pipeline Company 14.47
Shell (Upstream International) Egypt West Sitra Petroleum Company 37.50
BP United States West Texas Gulf Pipeline Company 16.51
BP Sweden WESTBIT AB 100.00
BHP South Africa Westchester Insurance Company (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
Shell (Downstream) Germany Westdeutsche Erdoelleitungs-Gmbh 25.00
BHP South Africa Western Complex Coal (Pty) Ltd 100.00
BHP United States Western Hog Ranch Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Western Minerals LLC 93.72
BHP United States Western Venture Inc 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093