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 States Antelope Creek Wind Energy LLC
BP United States ARCO Western Gas Pipeline Company
BP United States Fowler Ridge I Land Investments
BP Canada LAO Chemicals Holding Company
Shell (Downstream) Indonesia PT Shell Indonesia
BP United States Foseco Holding Inc
Shell (Downstream) Belgium QSB Corporation BVBA
BP France BP Chemicals France Holding
Shell (Downstream) China Shell (Tianjin) Oil and Petrochemical Company Limited
Barrick Gold Corporation Kabanga Project
Anglo American Luxembourg A R H Limited S A
BP Brazil Castrol Brasil Ltda
Anglo American United Kingdom Anglo American Australia Investments Limited (formerly Charles II Properties Limited)
BP United States Pine Creek Resources LLC
Barrick Gold Corporation Pangea Minerals Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Colombia Shell Colombia S A
BP United Kingdom BP Columbia Pipelines Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Argentina Barrick Exploraciones Argentina S.A.
Anglo American Namibia African Wire Ropes (Proprietary) Limited
Anglo American British Virgin Islands Anglo American Corporation De Chile Holdings Limited
Barrick Gold Corporation Cayman Islands PDG Sona (Cayman) Limited
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia Barrick (Kanowna) Limited
Shell (Downstream) Germany Gesellschaft Fuer Buerodienste und Haustechnik Mbh
BP United Kingdom Charringtons Fuels Ltd (in liquidation)
BP United States Union Texas Hellas Inc
BP Namibia BP Namibia (Proprietary) Ltd
Shell (Projects & Technology) United States Shell Catalysts Ventures Inc
BP United States Air BP Canada LLC
BP United Kingdom Ropemaker Nottingham Ltd
BP United States BP Technology Ventures Inc
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093