Sunbury Secretaries Limited

Listed as company secretary in BP Exploration Company Limited -- [OC https://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/SC000792]. When I (JW) pulled the records from Companies House it showed profits of $842 million in 2012 so clearly a "beast". I then thought it must be a BP owned vehicle for performing company secretary services - BP would not use a shell structure for corporate governance of such a large entity.

This appeared to be confirmed by a Google search "Sunbury Secretaries Limited BP" which finds the following companies with BP in the title also apparently using Sunbury Secretaries as secretary...


 * BP INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
 * BP OIL UK LIMITED
 * BP CHEMICALS LIMITED
 * BP EXPLORATION OPERATING COMPANY LIMITED
 * BP SHIPPING LIMITED
 * BP GAS MARKETING LIMITED
 * BP CAPITAL MARKETS P.L.C.
 * AIR BP LIMITED

BUT... I then pulled a search on Sunbury Secretaries itself from Company House and it shows it is owned by Pricewaterhouse Cooper Legal LLC - with one pound of paid up capital. So PwC is handling company secretary issues for a group of BP companies... when I started to look down the list and it appears as if the transfer was happening all on the same day... July 1, 2010. Is it possible therefore that the mechanism was designed in some way to limit liability in the fall out from Deepwater Horizon?Italic text