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
BHP Australia North West Shelf Liaison Company Pty Ltd 16.00
BHP South Africa Ingwe Surface Holdings Limited 100.00
BHP United States Caesar Oil Pipeline Company LLC 25.00
BHP Netherlands Billiton Development B V 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Yeelirrie Development Company Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Petroleum Trading and Marketing Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP United States BHP Billiton Petroleum (Americas) Inc 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Marine & General Insurances Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Innovation Pty 100.00
BHP Chile BHP Billiton Chile Inversiones Limitada 100.00
BHP United Kingdom BHP Billiton Aluminium Vietnam UK Limited 100.00
BHP Liberia Triangle Bulk Shipping Limited 50.00
BHP South Africa Samancor Holdings (Proprietary) Limited 60.00
BHP Indonesia PT Ratah Coal 100.00
BHP Brazil Mineracao Wesminas Ltda 100.00
BHP United States Hamilton Brothers Oil and Gas Corporation 100.00
BHP Australia Dendrobium Coal Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia Billiton Nickel (Ravensthorpe) Pty Limited 100.00
BHP United States BHP Venezuela Inc 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Iron Ore (Jimblear) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP British Virgin Islands BHP Billiton UK Holdings Limited 100.00
BHP Canada BHP Billiton Petroleum (Sabah) Corporation 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Finance Limited 100.00
BHP United Kingdom BHP Billiton Aluminium Limited 100.00
BHP Australia Billiton Manganese Australia Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP South Africa Terra Nominees (Proprietary) Limited 60.00
BHP Canada Rio Algom Exploration Inc 100.00
BHP Australia Port Kembia Coal Terminal Limited 20.00
BHP South Africa Manhattan Syndicate Limited 49.00
BHP South Africa Federale Prospekteerders Beperk 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093