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
Anglo American South Africa Mineral Venture Company (Pty) Ltd 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Norbush Properties (Pty) Ltd 79.70
BHP South Africa Ingwe Surface Holdings Limited 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Ozz Industries (Pty) Ltd 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Really Useful Investments No 102 (Pty) Ltd 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Blinkwater Farms 244kr 79.70
Rio Tinto plc South Africa Richards Bay Titanium (Proprietary) Limited 36.26
BHP South Africa Samancor Holdings (Proprietary) Limited 60.00
Anglo American South Africa Peruke (Pty) Ltd 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Anglo American Farms Ltd 100.00
BP South Africa Castrol Namibia (Pty) Ltd
Anglo American South Africa Anglo Operations Limited 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Golden Pond Trading 2 4 8 (Pty) Ltd 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Invest In Property 85 (Pty) ltd 79.70
BHP South Africa Terra Nominees (Proprietary) Limited 60.00
BHP South Africa Manhattan Syndicate Limited 49.00
BHP South Africa Federale Prospekteerders Beperk 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Springfield Collieries 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Amica Guesthouse (Proprietary) Limited
BP South Africa Blencor (Pty) Ltd 37.50
Anglo American South Africa Anglo South Africa Capital (Pty) Ltd 100.00
Shell (Downstream) South Africa Shell Autoserv South Africa (PTY) Ltd 75.00
Anglo American South Africa Umbani Mining Ltd 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Zimshelf Four Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd 100.00
BHP South Africa Ingwe Housing Association 100.00
BHP South Africa Baniettor Mining (Proprietary) Limited 51.00
Anglo American South Africa Anmercosa Broking Agencies (Pty) Ltd 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Blue Lounge Trading 129 (Pty) Ltd 100.00
Anglo American South Africa Hulamin Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc South Africa Richards Bay Titanium Holdings (Proprietary) Limited 51.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093