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 Percent owned
Rio Tinto plc Australia HC Developments Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Kelian Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Kestrel Coal Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Singapore Metals & Minerals Insurance Pte Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Nords Wharf Land Pty Ltd 75.17
Rio Tinto plc France Alcan Packaging Flexible France 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Alusuisse of Australia Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc South Africa Palabora Mining Company Limited 48.90
Rio Tinto plc Australia Pilbara Iron Company (Services Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Queensland Coal Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United Kingdom Rio Tinto Alcan Saudi Arabia Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Belgium Rio Tinto Diamonds NV 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Brazil Rio Tinto Mineracao do Brasil Ltda 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Rio Tinto Shared Services Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia RT Mining Corporation Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Jersey RTZ Jersey Investments One Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Sohio Western Mining Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc South Africa Tisand (Proprietary) Limited 36.26
Rio Tinto plc United States Western Minerals LLC 93.72
Rio Tinto plc Australia Ashton Exploration Australia Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United Kingdom Borax Europe Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Italy Cebal Italiano SpA 99.95
Rio Tinto plc Australia CNA Sub Holdings Pty Limited 75.17
Glencore International AG Argentina AR Zinc Group 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Germany Alcan Aluminium-Presswerke Gmbh 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Brazil Alcan International Network Brasil Ltda 99.93
Rio Tinto plc Australia Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Pty Ltd 22.81
Rio Tinto plc Australia Energy Resources of Australia Ltd 68.39
Rio Tinto plc France Groupement pour la Gestion de Pensions Complementaires 19.76
Rio Tinto plc Australia Hope Downs Joint Venture 50.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093