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 BHP Billiton Nickel West Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Netherlands BHP Billiton Eurasia B V 100.00
BHP Canada BHP Billiton (Trinidad-2C) Ltd 100.00
BHP Netherlands Aluminuim Consortium Venezuela B V 100.00
BHP British Virgin Islands BHP Billiton Australia UK Finance Limited
BHP South Africa Western Complex Coal (Pty) Ltd 100.00
BHP United States San Juan Coal Company 100.00
BHP Australia QNI Nickel (WA) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia Mt Arthur Coal Pry ltd 100.00
BHP South Africa Hillside Aluminium Limited 100.00
BHP South Africa Douglas Colliery Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BM Alliance Coal Marketing Pty Limited 50.00
BHP Netherlands Billiton Argentina B V 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Minerals Asia Pacific Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Western Mining Holdings Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP United Kingdom BHP Billiton Petroleum Great Britain Limited 100.00
BHP United States BHP Billiton Petroleum (Deepwater) Inc 100.00
BHP United Kingdom BHP Billiton Paddington Limited 100.00
BHP Germany BHP Billiton Metal GmbH 100.00
BHP Switzerland BHP Billiton Marketing AG 100.00
BHP China BHP Billiton International Trading (Shanghai) Co, Ltd 100.00
BHP Netherlands BHP Billiton Company BV 100.00
BHP Canada Anglo Potash Limited 100.00
BHP United States Hamilton Oil Company Inc 100.00
BHP United Kingdom The World Marine & General Insurance Plc 100.00
BHP United States Rio Algom Mining LLC 100.00
BHP Indonesia PT Billiton Indonesia 100.00
BHP South Africa Middelburg Mine Services (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP Cayman Islands Global BHP Copper Limited 100.00
BHP South Africa Consolidated Nominees (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093