Project Darcy Day Six

Highlights

 * started to add companies from the 2010 AR document on BP subsidiaries
 * cleaned up main spreadsheet (exchanging original entries, which were done using different methodology and sources)
 * started conceptualising a way to document the sprint (using the re:publica presentation as a frame)
 * added the complete list of 2nd tier subsidiaries (companies, at least partly, directly owned by BP plc)

Johnny's editing highlights from Sunday night

 * Figuring out how to process the 2010 AR... I notice in the filing system we have lost our log ins so no way to capture who is doing what.
 * Perils of media sourcing: the Business Investor listing BP Alternative Energy Holdings Ltd as owned by BP plc but in fact BP International is sitting in the middle.
 * Taking it down from the second tier companies, work through a group, it can happen quite fast - three minutes per entry.
 * Go to Google search beyond it: it gavce information for example with BP Solar Arabia that the Saudi partners bought BP out inbetween 2010 and now.
 * New kind of company record looked up - dissolution of Melrose Oil Trading. But hardly any info!
 * Add inactive companies but use the comments box at the bottom to add that information.
 * We should also capture the partners at the edge of the BP structures... for instance the Chinese companies who own 51% of the solar ventures there - even if we then don't have identifiers for either party, the quality of the source allows it.


 * New field need: for dissolved companies
 * Maybe extra field for corporate URL or other URL
 * Need also to indicate if further interesting information is there.
 * The Malaysian companies are listed on Google search under a Malaysia country entry on the BP website: we should choose three countries sometime toward the end of the process and see what the company websites say compared to the information from the filings.