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 United Kingdom Auvernier Limited 100.00
BHP South Africa Transkei Granite Holdings (Proprietary) Limited 62.00
BHP Switzerland Samancor AG 60.00
BHP Indonesia PT Maruwai Coal 99.00
BHP Chile Minera Spence SA 100.00
BHP United States Hamilton Brothers Corporation 100.00
BHP Australia Dampier Coal (Queensland) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP France Billiton Marketing France SARL 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Titanium Minernals Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Brazil BHP Internacional Participacaoes Ltda 100.00
BHP United Kingdom BHP Billiton Sustainable Communities 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Petroleum (Pilbara LNG) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Netherlands BHP Billiton Holdings B V 100.00
BHP United States BHP Billiton Capital Inc 100.00
BHP Guernsey Stein Insurance Company Limited 100.00
BHP South Africa Rietspruit Mine Services (Pty) Limited 100.00
BHP South Africa Pienaasrrivier Mynboumaatskappy Beperk 100.00
BHP South Africa Main Street 58 (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP South Africa Ermelo Mines Services (Proprietary) Limited 100.00
BHP United States Cleopatra Gas Gathering Company LLC 22.00
BHP Netherlands Billiton Investment 1 B V 100.00
BHP United States BHP Finance (International) Inc 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Development Finance Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP United Kingdom BHP Billiton SA Investments Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Petroleum (International Exploration) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Marketing Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP British Virgin Islands BHP Billiton Finance Australia Limited 100.00
BHP Australia BHP Billiton Aluminium (RAA) Pty Ltd 100.00
BHP BHP Billiton Diamonds (Eurasia) LLC
BHP Canada WMC Resources Marketing Limited 100.00
  • Number of subsidiaries: 6093