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
Shell (Trading) Storbritannia SHELL ENERGY EUROPE LIMITED 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) Canada Shell Canada Exploration 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) USA Shell Offshore Gas Pipelines LLC 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) USA Northern Iowa Windpower LLC 50.00
Shell (Trading) Man SHELL MARINE PERSONNEL (I O M) LIMITED 100.00
Shell (Trading) USA Shell Trading North America Company 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) USA Shell Gas & Power International Inc 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) USA Shell Energy Holding GP LLC 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) Venezuela Sucre Gas S A 50.00
Shell (Trading) Singapore SHELL INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING SERVICES (PTE) LTD 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) Bermuda Shell Cuiaba Holdings Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) USA Shell K2, Inc 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) USA Aera Energy LLC 51.80
Shell (Trading) USA Shell Energy North America (US), L P 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) Colombia Shell Exploration and Production Colombia CA 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) USA Shell International Exploration and Production Inc 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) USA NedPower Mount Storm LLC 50.00
Shell (Trading) Mexico Shell Mexico Gas Natural, S de RL de CV 100.00
Shell (Trading) USA Shell Trading Services Company 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) USA Salmon Resources Limited 100.00
Shell (Upstream Americas) USA Shell Exploration Company Inc 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Papua Ny-Guinea Rio Tinto Minerals (PNG) Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Rio Tinto Shipping Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia RTA Energy Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Frankrike Sabart S A S 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Norge Sor-Norge Aluminium AS 50.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Tomago Aluminium Company Pty Limited 51.55
Rio Tinto plc USA Windsor Minerals Inc 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Ashton Mining (WA) Pty Limited 100.00
Glencore International AG USA Allied Alumina Inc (Sherwin Alumina) 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093