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 Sort descending Percent owned
BHP Australia WMC Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Namibia WMC Resources (Namibia) (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP United Kingdom WMC Resources Marketing (UK) Limited 100.00
BHP Canada WMC Resources Marketing Limited 100.00
BHP Australia WMC Securities Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Woodland Road LLC 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Australia Woodside Petroleum Ltd 34.27
Conoco Phillips Holdings Co. Liberia World Wide Transport, Inc. 100.00
Anglo American Poland Wroclawskie Kopalnie Surowcow Mineralnych S A 100.00
Shell (Downstream) United States WWellCoPipeline LLC 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Wyoming Coal Resources Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Wyoming Quality Healthcare Coalition LLC 31.24
Exxon United States XH, L 100.00
Shell (Downstream) Xiang Jia International Investment Holdings Limited
Anglo American China Xiwan Coal Company Limited 60.00
Glencore International AG United Kingdom Xstrata plc 34.50
Exxon United States XTO Energy In 100.00
Exxon United States XTO Offshore Inc. 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Yalleen Pastoral Co Pty Ltd 55.97
Shell (Downstream) China Yanchang and Shell Petroleum (Sichuan) Petroleum Company Limited 45.00
Shell (Downstream) China Yanchang and Shell Petroleum Company Limited 45.00
BP China Yangtze River Acetyls Co Ltd 51.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Yarraloola Pastoral Co 57.08
Rio Tinto plc Australia Yarwun Cogeneration Pty Ltd 100.00
BP United Kingdom Yasdan Ltd
Conoco Phillips Holdings Co. United States Yellowstone Pipe Line Company 46.00
Anglo American South Africa Yoch Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd 100.00
Anglo American United Kingdom Yorkshire Building Supplies Limited 100.00
BP United Kingdom Young\'s Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Ltd
BP Yue Gang LNG Shipping Company Ltd 5.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093