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) Kenya Shell Malindi Limited
Barrick Gold Corporation Bermuda Argentina Gold (Bermuda) II Ltd.
Shell (Downstream) Shell Gas (LPG) Hong Kong Limited
Anglo American South Africa Ambase Investment Africa (Botswana) (Pty) Ltd
BP United States ARCO Polypropelene Company
BP United Kingdom Burmah Castrol Overseas Holdings Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia Barrick Mining Company (Australia) Limited
BP United Kingdom BP Lubricants (UK) Ltd
BP United States BP Wind Energy North America Inc
Shell (Downstream) Australia Derfell Pty Ltd
BP Denmark BP Danmark A/S
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia KCGM Superpit
BP United Kingdom Fosroc Expandite Ltd
BP United States CCWE Holdings LLC
BP United States Toledo Refining Holding Company LLC
BP United States Sanilac County Wind Farm LLC
BP United States Gardena Holdings Inc
BP United States White Pines Wind Farm LLC
BP United Kingdom BP Iraq Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Ireland Shell-Mex (Dublin) Limited
BP United Kingdom BP Amoco Exploration (Faroes) Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation United States Golden Sunlight Mine
BP United States BP Egypt Company
Anglo American Netherlands AA Holdings Argentina B.V.
BP Bahamas ARCO Offshore (Trinidad) Ltd
BP Fiji BP South West Pacific Ltd
BP Australia North West Shelf Australia LNG Pty
Barrick Gold Corporation Canada Hemlo Property
BP Netherlands Foseco Holding International BV
Shell (Projects & Technology) United Kingdom Shell Research Limited
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093