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) Xiang Jia International Investment Holdings Limited
BP United Kingdom Ropemaker Stratton (No 2) Ltd
BP United Kingdom BP Alternative Energy International Ltd
BP Venezuela Castrol de Venezuela C A
BP United Kingdom BP Exploration Company (Columbia) Ltd
Shell (Projects & Technology) Netherlands Shell Technology Ventures B V
Shell (Projects & Technology) United States Zeolyst International
BP United States BP Berau Ltd
BP United Kingdom The Burmah Oil Company (Pakistan Trading) Ltd
BP United States BP West Arguni Ltd
Anglo American South Africa Ambase Investment Africa (Tanzania) (Pty) Ltd
BP United Kingdom Ludgate Sixty Nine Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Cambodia Shell Company of Cambodia Limited S A
Barrick Gold Corporation United States Barrick North America Holding Corporation
BP Uruguay Pan American Energy Uruguay S A
BP United States Remediation Management Services Company
Shell (Downstream) Kenya Shell Kenya Provident Trust Limited
BP Panama BP Caribbean Trading Company Inc
BP United Kingdom Veedol International Ltd
BP United States AE Cedar Greek Holdings LLC
Shell (Downstream) Australia Sungold Petroleum Pty Ltd
Barrick Gold Corporation Cayman Islands Barrick Holdings International Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Honduras Comercializadora de Productos Y Servicios, SA
BP United States BP Amoco Chemical Company
BP Australia BP Regional Australasia Holdings Pty Ltd
BP United Kingdom PHP Investments Ltd
Anglo American Netherlands Anglo American (NA) 1 B.V.
BP United Kingdom Britannic Trading Ltd
Shell (Downstream) Belgium Belgium Shell S A
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia East African Gold Mines Limited
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093