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
Anglo American South Africa Afropulse 409 (Pty) Ltd
BP United States Kitt Energy Corporation
BP United Kingdom BP Oil Vietnam Ltd
BP United Kingdom BP Exploration Company Ltd
BP United Kingdom BP Kuwait Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Germany Deutsche Gesellschaft Fuer Oelinteressen Mbh
Shell (Downstream) Canada Coral Cibola Canada Inc
Barrick Gold Corporation United States Ruby Hill Mine
BP United States Heat Transfer Research Inc
Shell (Downstream) Denmark A/S Shell Center
BP United States Main Pass Oil Gathering Company Partnership
BP Cayman Islands ARCO Ireland Power Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Malaysia Provista Ventures SDN BHD
BP United States Mojave County Wind Farm LLC
BP Oman BP Global Investments Salaha & Co LLC
BP United Kingdom BP Amoco International Ltd
Shell (Projects & Technology) Canada Shell Technology Canada, Inc
BP Colombia Veedol International Columbia
BP United States 200 PS Investment Company
BP United States Amoco MB Fractionation Company
Anglo American United Kingdom Anglo American (London) 2
BP United Kingdom BP Exploration (Alpha) Ltd
BP United Kingdom Alexander Duckham & Co Ltd
BP United Kingdom Viceroy Investments Ltd
BP United States Sanilac County Wind Farm LLC
Shell (Downstream) Shell Bitumen China (Luzhou) Holding Limited
BP United States White Pines Wind Farm LLC
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia Darlot Mine
BP Canada Amoco Fabrics and Fibres Ltd
BP Canada 3101805 Nova Scotia Company
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093