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
BHP Australia QNI Western Australia Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia North West Shelf Gas Pty Ltd 16.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Yakabindie Nickel Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia CRA Finance International Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia GPS Nominee Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Hexham Engineering Pty Ltd 75.17
Rio Tinto plc Australia Kwinana Joint Venture 60.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia North Finance Ltd 100.00
Exxon Australia Mobil Australia Resources Company Pty Limited 100.00
BP Australia Hydrogen Energy Australia Pty Ltd
Rio Tinto plc Australia Pacific Oil & gas Pty Limited 100.00
Anglo American Australia Anglo American Metallurgical Coal Assets Pty Ltd 100.00
Anglo American Australia Anglo Coal (Drayton) Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Rio Tinto Services Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Robe River Ore Sales Pty Limited 57.08
Rio Tinto plc Australia Warkworth Tailing Treatment Pty Ltd 41.72
Rio Tinto plc Australia Ashton Argyle Holdings Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Cattamarra Coal Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia CNA Bengalla Pty Limited 75.17
BP Australia Cairns Airport Refuelling Services Pty Ltd 25.00
Barrick Gold Corporation Australia KCGM Superpit
Anglo American Australia Monash Energy Coal Ltd 100.00
BP Australia Airport Fuel Services Pty Limited 20.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Petroleum (Pipelines Investments) Pty Ltd 100.00
Anglo American Australia PWB Anchor Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Hail Creek Joint Venture 82.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton CBM Investments Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Mount Thorley Coal Loading Ltd 39.59
Rio Tinto plc Australia AML Nominees Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Project Generation Group Pty Ltd 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093