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 Billiton Australia Finance Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP United Kingdom BHP Minerals Europe Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Western Mining Innovation Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP United States BHP Billiton Petroleum Holdings (USA) Inc 100.00
BHP United Kingdom BHP Billiton Investment Holdings Limited 100.00
BHP Belgium BHP Billiton Diamonds (Belgium) N V 100.00
BHP Brazil Araguaia Participacoes Ltda 100.00
BHP Australia Albion Downs Pty Lmited 100.00
BHP United States Western Hog Ranch Company 100.00
BHP United States San Juan Transportation Company 100.00
BHP Namibia Rio Algom Namibia (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP Indonesia PT Juloi Coal 100.00
BHP South Africa Middelplaats Manganese Limited 54.00
BHP Liberia Green Ocean Bulk Shipping Limited 50.00
BHP Brazil Consorcio Santos Luz de Imoveis Ltda 90.00
BHP Netherlands Billiton Investment 8 B V 100.00
BHP United Kingdom BHP Petroleum North Sea Limited 100.00
BHP United States BHP Holdings (International) Inc 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton SSM Development Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Netherlands BHP Billiton Petroleum (Netherlands) B V 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Great Boulder Mines Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP United States BHP Billiton Boliviana de Petroleo Inc 100.00
BHP South Africa Richards Bay Mining (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP South Africa Tisand (Pty) Limited 51.00
BHP South Africa Richards Bay Iron and Titanium (Pty) Ltd 49.00
BHP Australia P & DP Co Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP South Africa Kangwane Anthracite (Proprietary) Limited 60.00
BHP Colombia Cerrejon Zona Norte S A 33.00
BHP Australia Billiton Exploration Australia Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Mitsui Coal Pty Ltd 80.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093