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 South Africa Mine and Smelter Investments (Proprietary) Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia Groote Eylandt Mining Company Pty Lrd 60.00
BHP Mozambique Corridor Sands Limitada 90.00
BHP Netherlands Billiton Investment 9 B V 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Queensland Coal Investments Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP United States BHP Holdings (Resources) Inc 100.00
BHP Philippines BHP Billiton SSM Hallmark Inc 100.00
BHP Canada BHP Billiton Petroleum (New Ventures) Corporation 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Lonsdale Investments Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP British Virgin Islands BHP Billiton Group (BVI) Limited 100.00
BHP Brazil BHP Billiton Brasil Investimentos Ltda 100.00
BHP South Africa Richards Bay Mining Holdings (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP Cook Islands P R I Eastern Limited 100.00
BHP Keliney Closed Joint Stock Company 90.00
BHP British Virgin Islands Cerro Matosa Holdings (BVI) Limited 100.00
BHP Netherlands Billiton Guinea B V 100.00
BHP United States BHP Navajo Coal Company 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Coal Holdings Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Resources International (RSA) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Copper Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Executive Services Company Pty Limited 100.00
BHP Trinidad & Tobago BHP Billiton (Trinidad-3A) Ltd 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 Philippines QNI Philppines Inc 99.00
BHP Australia Mt Arthur Underground Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia Honeybourne Investments Pty Ltd 99.00
BHP South Africa Electolytic Metal Corporation (Proprietary) Limited 60.00
BHP Australia BM Alliance Coal Operations Pty Limited 50.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093