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 Oman Sohar Aluminium Co LLC 20.00
Rio Tinto plc Netherlands Tirbit v o f 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Ireland WCL Flexible Packaging Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Ashton Exploration Africa Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Spain Borax Espa 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Brazil Cebal Brasil Limitada 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia CNA Resources Limited 75.17
Glencore International AG United States Allied Alumina Inc (Sherwin Alumina) 100.00
Glencore International AG Bermuda Katanga Mining Limited 74.40
Rio Tinto plc Czechia Alcan Decin Extrusions S R O 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United Kingdom Alcan International Network Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Desert Services Corporation 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Flondin Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Hamersley Exploration Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Canada Indal Wall Systems Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Iron Ore Company of Canada Inc 58.72
Rio Tinto plc United States Kennecott Nevada Copper Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United Kingdom Luzenac UK Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia NBH Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Canada Alcan Packaging Canada Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Alusuisse Aluminium USA Inc 100.00
Rio Tinto plc South Africa Palabora Holdings Ltd 57.73
Rio Tinto plc Turkey Pechiney Dis Ticaret Limited Sirketi 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States PRP Property and Equipment Company LLC 100.00
Rio Tinto plc France Rhenaroll S A 49.95
Rio Tinto plc United States Rio Tinto America Holdings Inc 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Canada Rio Tinto Exploration Canada Inc 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Rio Tinto Hydrogen Energy Inc 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Peru Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration S A C 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United Kingdom Rio Tinto Technology Development Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093