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 Mexico Cebal Americas de Reynosa S de R L de C V 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia CNA Investments (UK) Pty Limited 75.17
Glencore International AG United Kingdom Glencore UK Ltd 100.00
Glencore International AG Switzerland Pacorini Group 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Brazil Alcan AluminaLtda 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Iceland Alcan Iceland Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Alcan Nikkei China Limited 51.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia CRA Finance International Pty Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc China ECL Shanghai Co Ltd 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 United States Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Kwinana Joint Venture 60.00
Rio Tinto plc Chile Minera Escondida Ltda 30.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia North Finance Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc France Alcan Rhenalu 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia AML Properties Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Chile Pechiney Chile Limitada 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Project Generation Services Pty Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Resource Development LLC 93.72
Rio Tinto plc Australia Rio Tinto Aluminium Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United Kingdom Rio Tinto European Holdings Limited Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United States Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration Inc 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United Kingdom Rio Tinto Talc Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United Kingdom RTA Holdco 4 Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc United Kingdom Sefranex Dubai Ltd 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Cayman Islands Sunrise Brazilian Mining Investments Limited 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Tuba Limited Liability Company 100.00
Rio Tinto plc Australia Yarraloola Pastoral Co 57.08
Rio Tinto plc Australia Ashton West Africa Pty Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093