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
Shell (Downstream) Australia Sungold Petroleum Pty Ltd
Shell (Projects & Technology) Canada Criterion Catalysts & Technologies Canada, Inc
BP United States ARCO Midcon LLC
Barrick Gold Corporation United States Barrick Cortez Inc
Shell (Downstream) Isle of Man Petrolon Europe Limited
BP United States Pembina Wind Energy LLC
Shell (Downstream) China Shell Trade Developments (Shanghai) Limited
BP United Kingdom BP Chemicals Trading Ltd
BP United States Amoco Louisiana Fractionator Company
BP United States BP Berau Ltd
BP United States BP West Arguni Ltd
Anglo American British Virgin Islands Ambase Investments (Tanzania) Limited
BP ZAO Br Neft
BP United Kingdom BP Properties Ltd
BP Portugal BP Gest Exploracao de Postos de Abastecimento
Shell (Projects & Technology) Netherlands Shell Technology Ventures B V
Shell (Projects & Technology) United States Zeolyst International
Barrick Gold Corporation United States Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc
BP United States BP Solar International Inc
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia Granny Smith Mine
Shell (Downstream) Mexico Shell Servicios Leon, S A de C V
Shell (Downstream) Canada Shell Hydrogen Investments Canada Inc
Shell (Downstream) Ecuador Shell Compania de Petroleo del Ecuador S A
BP United Kingdom BP Amoco Exploration (Forties) Ltd
BP United Kingdom BP Finance (South East Asia) Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Chile Pascua-Lama Project
BP United Kingdom International Card Centre Ltd
BP United States Amoco Rancho Pipeline Company
Shell (Downstream) Honduras Comercializadora de Productos Y Servicios, SA
BP United States BP Amoco Chemical Company
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093