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
BP Australia Airport Fuel Services
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia Barrick (Plutonic) Limited
Shell (Downstream) Kenya Unico Manufacturing Co Ltd
BP United States Amoco Environmental Services Company
BP United Kingdom Emerald Offshore Services Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Brazil Fusus Comercio Participaceos Ltda
BP United States Hydrogen Energy International LLC
BP United Kingdom BP Exploration (Finance) Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Barbados Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation
Shell (Downstream) Malaysia Superkad Services SDN BHD
BP United States ARCO Mexico Projects Inc
BP Portugal BP Gest 24 Exploracao de Postos de Abastecimento
Shell (Downstream) Canada 2099045 Ontario Inc
Shell (Downstream) Denmark A/S Dansk Shell
BP United Kingdom BP Capital Markets p l c
Shell (Projects & Technology) Canada Criterion Catalysts & Technologies Canada, Inc
BP Egypt Rudeis Oil Company RUDOCO
BP United States The Standard Oil Company
Anglo American United Kingdom Anglo American (London)
BP United Kingdom Castrol Ltd
BP United Kingdom Expandite Contract Services Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Chile Pascua-Lama Project
BP United States Cedar Creek Wind Energy LLC
BP Taiwan China American Petrochemical Company Ltd (CAPCO)
Barrick Gold Corporation Bermuda Arizona Star Resource (Bermuda) Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Ireland Irish Shell Trust Limited
BP United States Casitas Pipeline Company
BP Solarex Electric Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Bermuda Shell Markets (Middle East) Limited Limited
Shell (Downstream) China Zhejiang Shell Oil & Petrochemical Company Ltd
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093