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 United Kingdom Ropemaker Nottingham Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Canada Shell Chemicals Canada Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Hungary Shell Hungary Kereskedelmi cLtd
BP Canada Castrol Canada Inc
Shell (Downstream) Costa Rica Shell Costa Rica S A
BP United States Endymion Oil Pipeline Company LLC
Anglo American Zimbabwe Anzim Holdings Limited
Shell (Downstream) Germany Shell Grundstucksgesellschaft Wesseling Gmbh & Co KG
Barrick Gold Corporation United States Cortez Hills Project
BP United States F & H Pipeline Company
BP United States Amoco Longhorn Pipeline Company
BP United States Highlands Ethanol LLC
Shell (Downstream) Australia Zip Airport Services Ltd
BP United Kingdom Emerald Offshore Services Ltd
BP United States Cape Vincent Wind Power LLC
BP United Kingdom BP Finance (South East Asia) Ltd
BP United Kingdom International Card Centre Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Papua New Guinea Barrick (Niugini) Limited
BP United Kingdom BP Exploration (Angola) Ltd
BP Portugal BP Gest 24 Exploracao de Postos de Abastecimento
BP United States Pembina Wind Energy LLC
BP United States BP Solar International Inc
BP South Africa Castrol Namibia (Pty) Ltd
Shell (Downstream) China Shell Trade Developments (Shanghai) Limited
Shell (Downstream) Mexico Shell Servicios Leon, S A de C V
BP United Kingdom Castrol Offshore Ltd
Anglo American Canada Ambay Nominees Limited
Barrick Gold Corporation United States Homestake Nevada Corporation
BP British Virgin Islands BP Egypt East Delta Manne Corporation
BP Panama BP Caribbean Trading Company Inc
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093