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 Brazil Empresa de Mineracao Jacui Ltda 100.00
BHP Japan BMA Japan KK 50.00
BHP Netherlands Billiton Chile B V 100.00
BHP United States BHP Minerals Ghana Inc 75.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Westmin Talc Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Petroleum Investments (Great Britain) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Minterals Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Canada BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc 100.00
BHP Canada Atlas Steels Company 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Diamonds Australia Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia WMC Finance Limited 100.00
BHP Switzerland Tonmet AG 51.00
BHP Cayman Islands Riochile Inc 100.00
BHP Indonesia PT Kendilo Coal Indonesia 100.00
BHP Mexico Minera BHP Billiton, S A de C V 75.00
BHP British Virgin Islands Guinea Alumina Corporation, Ltd 33.00
BHP County Shipping Company Limited 100.00
BHP Ireland Billiton Investments Ireland Limited 100.00
BHP United States BHP Queensland Coal Limited 100.00
BHP United States BHP Holdings (USA) Inc 100.00
BHP Singapore BHP Billiton SSM Indonesia Pte Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Petroleum (North West Shelf) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Canada BHP Billiton Petroleum (Colombia) Corporation 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Uranium Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP United Kingdom BHP Billiton Group Limited 100.00
BHP Canada BHP Billiton Canadian Finance Inc 100.00
BHP United States WMC (Peru) Inc 100.00
BHP South Africa Richbay Mining Holdings (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP South Africa Pering Mine Services Holdings (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP United States Kendilo Coal LLC 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093