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 Sort descending Subsidiary Percent owned
BP Australia Airport Fuel Services
Rio Tinto plc Australia RTA Sales Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Argyle Diamond Mines Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Capricorn Diamonds Investments Pty Limited 100.00
Anglo American Australia Anglo Coal (Archveyor Management) Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Clermont Region Support Services Pty Limited 100.00
Anglo American Australia Anglo Coal (Sutton Forrest) Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Peko Exploration Pty Limited 100.00
BP Australia No 1 Riverside Quay Pty Ltd 100.00
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia Granny Smith Mine
Anglo American Australia Moranbah North Coal Pty Ltd 100.00
BP Australia ARCO Resources Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia Groote Eylandt Mining Company Pty Lrd 60.00
BHP Australia BHP Queensland Coal Investments Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Lonsdale Investments Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Hamersley Associated Investments Pty Limited 100.00
Exxon Australia Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Rio Tinto Coal (Clermont) Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Wimmera Industrial Minerals Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Ashton Merlin Pty 100.00
Anglo American Australia Anglo Coal (Dawson South Management) Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia CNA Warkworth Australasia Pty Limited 75.17
Chevron Australia Chevron Australia Pty Ltd. 100.00
BP Australia BP Solar Pty Limited 100.00
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines Pty Ltd
Shell (Upstream International) Australia Shell Finance (Australia) Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia A O (Australia) Pty Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Coal Holdings Pty Ltd 100.00
Shell (Upstream International) Australia Monash Energy PTY Ltd 50.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Resources International (RSA) Pty Ltd 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093