Project Darcy Day Seven

Highlights
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 * making quick progress on the network through mining the 2010 AR
 * Questions: some subsidiaries are listed with a 0 percent owner? Can they still be controlling?
 * the network is now growing by around 20-30 relations per hour :)
 * learned that BP is only allowed to bid again in the US since March, see: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/14/bp-us-operations-deal-epa-gulf-of-mexico-drilling
 * In Australia, why does BP (i.e., BP Australia Pty Limited) own 1% of a dairy farm collective? (for more: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=22516995)
 * came across a Saudi Arabian company partly owned by BP, the Peninsular Aviation Services Company Limited. Seems not to give special insights into the country (Aviation company), but might still be worthwhile checking if we can find more information on it through BP plc?

JW Observations

 * It may be that the data starts to get fuzzy once we move to the edge of the BP network: in joint ventures with Shell, Chevron etc the name of the partner used is the generic top-level name. It seems less likely that the parent is directly involved in lower level small JVs than that it is enough for BP's internal purposes simply to know their partners are "Shell" "Chevron" and so on. This is promising for open data because it implies that nobody has 20/20 vision across the whole corporate web.
 * Another example of fuzzy data are the numbers of affiliates that have other partners listed anonymously under "Other Third Party". Prevalent in small scale operations.